TY  - JOUR
T1  - ITaly
Y1  - 1929/08/03
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1929.02710050048025
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 394
EP  - 395
VL  - 93
IS  - 5
N2  - Hygiene as Applied to Railway Coaches 
    A few years ago, the state railways published hygienic regulations and imposed certain penalties on persons who failed to observe such regulations while traveling in railway coaches. The regulations were rigidly enforced with the result that while, in 1926-1927, there were 20,021 charges brought, in 1927-1928 the number was reduced to 15,722. By a recent decree, spitting in railway coaches is prohibited, and the restriction will doubtless soon be extended to include the waiting rooms of railway stations.Surgical Operations on Board Transatlantic Steamers 
    In February of this year, on board the steamer Roma, the ship's physicians Drs. Gallini and De Ferrari performed an emergency laparotomy on an American passenger with perforated gastric ulcer. On the following voyage, the same physicians performed an appendectomy on a waiter of the steamship service. The patient presented generalized peritonitis. The operations were successful.The Antituberculosis Society of 
    
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1929.02710050048025
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02710050048025
ER  -