Manual of Military Hygiene for the Military Services of the United States |
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Page 751 - Treasury co-operate with and aid state and municipal boards of health in the execution and enforcement of the rules and regulations of such boards...
Page 746 - ... and a half in breadth. The boats of the ships above mentioned, as also small craft which may be used for hospital work, shall be distinguished by similar painting.
Page 368 - A ration is the allowance for the subsistence of one person for one day and varies in components according to the station of the troops or the nature of the duty performed, being severally known as the garrison ration, the field ration, the travel ration, the Filipino ration, and the emergency ration.
Page 121 - That hereafter no officer or enlisted man in active service who shall be absent from duty on account of disease resulting from his own intemperate use of drugs or alcoholic liquors or other misconduct...
Page 179 - A variation not exceeding 10 pounds in weight or 2 inches in chest measurement (at expiration) below the standard given in the table is admissible when the applicant for enlistment is active, has firm muscles, and is evidently vigorous and healthy.
Page 69 - ... yellow fever may be placed under treatment at the very inception of the disease. 6. Malarial fever, like yellow fever, is communicated by mosquito bites and therefore is just as much of an infectious disease and requires the same measures of protection against mosquitoes. On the assumption that mosquitoes remain in the vicinity of their breeding places, or never travel far, the prevalence of malarial fever at a post would indicate want of proper care, and diligence on the part of the Surgeon...
Page 184 - If the registrant can not hear -the words at 20 feet, the assistant should approach foot by foot, using the same voice, until -the words are repeated correctly. Examine each ear separately, closing the other ear by pressing the tragus firmly against the meatus; the examiner...
Page 372 - One day in each alternate month of the season of practical instruction, not exceeding three days in each year, the use of the reserve ration with individual cooking will be required by all troops in the field for purposes of instruction. 4.
Page 187 - Webbed fingers, permanent flexion, extension or loss of motion of one or more fingers; loss or serious mutilation of either thumb, total loss of index finger of the right hand, total loss of any two fingers of the same hand, or loss of the second and third phalanges of all the fingers of either hand.
Page 369 - NOTE. — Food for troops traveling on United States Army transports will be prepared from the articles of subsistence stores which compose the ration for troops in garrison, varied by the substitution of other articles of authorized subsistence stores, the total daily cost per man of the food consumed not...