Open AccessINFLUENZA-PNEUMONIA AS INFLUENCED BY DISHWASHING IN THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
Author(s) -
James G. Cumming
Publication year - 1919
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2330-9687
pISSN - 0271-4353
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.9.11.849
Subject(s) - pneumonia , incidence (geometry) , medicine , environmental health , demography , sociology , physics , optics
Colonel Cumming extends the trail he blazed in the matter of in-sanitary dishwashing. He finds in institutions that wash by hand in lukewarm water that there was three times the incidence of influenza-pneumonia that there was in institutions with steam dishwashing. His conclusions are based on an institution population of 252,186.