Process of bacterial attack, 307.
Production of diphtheria antitoxin, 403.
Protection, against mosquitoes, 385;
against smallpox, 398.
Proteids in food, 260.
Ptomaines, 250.
Pump for deep well, 106.
Pumping water, 168.
Purity of water-supply, 131.
Quantity of water in stables, 94;
of water per person, 92;
of water used, 90.
Quarantine, regulations, 422;
for scarlet fever, 369.
Quinine and malaria, 378, 386.
Rabies, 406; antitoxin, 309.
Radiators by windows, 79.
Rain-water, storage, 101;
supply, 99.
Rates of water consumption, 95.
Rations for daily use, 263.
Register in the ceiling, 85.
Remedies, for consumption, 340;
for pneumonia, 347.
Reservoir, for brook supply, 126;
on a brook, 102.
Resistance, of body to disease, 297, 308;
to tuberculosis, 335.
Rest for consumptives, 340.
Results of measles and scarlet fever, 366.
Rochester and the milk supply, 237.
Rock formations and hygiene, 35.
Roof of spring-chamber, 157.
Rubber boots, 283.
Running trap for main drain, 201.
Rusting of driven-well casing, 119.
Saliva from mouth, 260.
Sand filter beds for sewage, 219.
Scarlet fever, and milk, 240;
preliminary symptoms of, 367;
quarantine, 369.
Scarlatina, 369.
School vaccination, 412.
Scurvy and fresh vegetables, 266.
Sedimentation of sewage, 227.
Septic tanks, 229.
Sewage disposal, 208.
Sewage-sick land, 214.
Sewage treatment on land, 213.
Sewer pipe in wells, 105.
Sewers and sickness, 36.
Sex and age in disease, 299.
Shallow wells, 113.
Sinks, for kitchen, 196;
and their discharges, 214.
Size, of openings for fresh air, 85;
of pipe for conveying water, 166;
of spring reservoir, 156;
of waste weir, 163.
Slaughter-houses, 255.
Sleep, 292.
Smallpox, 396;
and chicken pox, 399;
instead of chicken pox, 376.
Smoking and its effects, 275.
Soap, as an antiseptic, 326;
its relation to hard and soft water, 134.
Soil, air and its exclusion, 49;
for disinfection, 331.
Soil-pipe in house, 201.
Somerville typhoid epidemic, 359.
Sources of water-supply, 108.
Space between houses, 30.
Spring-chamber, 157.
Spring, extensions, 123;
reservoirs, 155.
Springs, 121;
and their formation, 109.
Squirrels, and the bubonic plague, 395;
in the attic, 30.
Stables, and dirty milk, 237;
and water consumption, 94;
for clean milk, 242;
space required per cow, 63;
ventilation, 86.
Stamford typhoid epidemic, 359.
Steam, for disinfection, 329; pumps, 179.
"Stegomyia mosquito," 386.
Sterilization of milk, 234.
Stone dam, 159.
Storage, on a brook, 102;
reservoirs, 127;
tank for rain-water, 101.
Stoves used in ventilation, 82.
Strainer for milk-pail, 246.
Stream, pollution, 210;
supplies, 158.
Subsurface, irrigation field, 224;
sewage disposal, 223.
Sulfur as a disinfectant, 318.
Sunlight as a disinfectant, 331.
Supply tank for domestic plumbing, 192.
Surface use of land for sewage treatment, 216.
Swamps and malaria, 381.
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