TY  - JOUR
T1  - BIlibid prison sanitation
AU  - SHATTUCK EC
Y1  - 1909/01/16
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1909.25420290001001
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 175
EP  - 181
VL  - LII
IS  - 3
N2  - The subject of prison sanitation is such a comprehensive one and presents so many points for consideration that I have thought best in the present paper to discuss briefly such subjects as have seemed most pertinent.Unless there is complete isolation, a thing usually impossible, the population in the vicinity of a prison or other public institution is endangered by insanitary conditions or epidemics occurring in the institution. On the other hand, it is frequently the case that the only way by which infection can gain an entrance to the institution is from or through the neighboring population. It is clear then that it is to the interest of both to cooperate to prevent conditions inimical to public health. Since we know that sometimes in spite of every precaution epidemics do arise, the rational procedure is to join hands in the work of stamping them out.The remarkable reduction in
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.25420290001001
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.25420290001001
ER  -