The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-04-28

velops the cholera contagi6n from the
excrements of diseased persons.
g.. That exctements from diseased
person thrown into sink or privy, are
capable of transforming the whole mass
into hearth of cholera contagion.
g.. That the gases disengaged by
the decomposition of organic substances
especially of excrements, penetrate the
earth, rise to the surface and become
then the cause of fevers and of cholera.
10. That there has not been sin.
gle case of cholera observed in Bavaria
that could not be traced To- that species
of Infection.
IN. That the stools Of persons ai1l:ct.
ed with cholera, or that peculiar species
OF dlarrhea which usually precedes
cholera, are more infectious than those
who are actually seized with the disease.
H.. That cholera is always carried
to a place where it has not yet appeared,
by diseased person, and communicated
through excrements brought in contact
with the earth and that there is no
other way Of propagating the disease.
Immediate contact with the patient; in
haling the air of the sick room, washing
OF the dead body, nay, even dissecting
it after death, does not Communicate the
disease.
l3 Not every species of earth acts
on the process of decomposition in like
manner, and the capacity for spreading
the contaglon in the manner above stat.
ed Varlesi in consequence, with the com.
position OF the soils On which dwellings
are build. On rocky foundation, gran.
ite or sandstone, cholera never becomes
epidemic. An alluvial soil, underlaid
with lime or clay, or any other cause
which Keeps the ground moist, may be.
come ateeming womb for the cholera
contagion.
Ia. The cholera poison may be in a
person from one to twenty.eight days
withoat manifesting itself This fact
furnishes q measure for the distance to
which it may be carried from one place
to another
Is. The disease which is not com.
munlcated by contact is carried to the
inmates ofhouses. sleeping in rooms
exposed to the cholera poison as above
engendered
l6. If the cholera, as proved in
London, is more intense and fatal in
the plain than on elevations, it will, on
investig ga:ion, be found that it is owing
to the better drainage, by which filth is
removed before it is decomposed, or
before it enters, as in damp and wet
soils into process of fermentation. DR..
Pettenkober found some of the worst
cases of cholera on hllls where the priv.
les OF houses still higher situated empti.
ed into sewers or sinks of improper fall.
The upperhouses were generally exempt
II. To prevent contagion, the stools
of cholera patients must be disnfec:cd
before they are emptied The best dis.
injecting agent is vtrof of iron (grcen
copperas). Chloride Of Time only puri.
hes the air, but does not destroy the
cholera poison.
ls. When strangers from cholera
districts are expecting to arrive, the
prlvies of hotels and boarding. g.houses
where they are expected to put up
ought to be dsinfected with vitrol Of
iron say once week. In the rooms
and corridors Of hospitals turpentine
may be spread OH paper and exposed to
the atmosphere. The ozone electrified
oxygen, thus given out is the best puri
fer OF the atmosph ere.
10. Care must be had not to allow
any linen to be washed which is soiled
with the excrements of a cholera patient
The process Of maceration, to which
so'led clothes are usually subjected, is
capable of developing and communieat.
ms the disease in its worst form. Jane.
son found the same truth in 1872, 'IS
and 'lS in India, without tracing it to its
source.
20. There are no other sanitary
regulations capable of preventing or ar
resting cholera in its progress, than those