SURVEY OF THE COMMUNICABLE DISEASE SITUATION IN CHICAGO

OUTLINE

• Statement of Chairman

• Diseases Considered

• General Situation

  • Incidence of Communicable Disease in Chicago

  • Venereal Disease

  • Amebic Dysentery

  • Seasonal Distribution of Communicable Disease.

  • Incidence of Communicable Disease in Hospitals

  • Communicable Disease with Reference to Concentration of Population. (Accompanied by map)

  • Trend of Communicable Disease. (Special study by I. S. Falk, Ph.D.)

• Methods of Combating Communicable Disease

  • Hospitalization

    • Number of Hospitals

    • Number of Hospitals for Contagious Diseases

    • Number of Contagious Disease Beds

    • Venereal Disease Hospitals and Clinics

    • Expense at Various Hospitals

    • Cost of transportation

    • Results of Hospitalization

  • Measures by Municipality

    • Preventive Inoculations. (Report by Alton S. Pope, M.D., Chief, Bureau of Communicable Diseases of Chicago)

      • Diphtheria

      • Measles

      • Scarlet fever

      • Typhoid fever

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• • chool Inspection. (Report by Hugh O. Jones, M.D., Assistant Commissioner of Health of Chicago)

    • Diphtheria in schools

    • Scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough

    • Smallpox

    • School vaccination

    • Disinfection of Schoolrooms

  • Milk Supply. (Report by George W. Putnam, M.S., Bureau of Dairy