The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-12-13
TYPHOID FROM MILK.

the american Agriculturist says:
While in England short time ago
found that much attention was being given
to subject that should be of interest to
more than one class of the readers of the
Agricuhurist-.hat is, the liability of milk
to act as u means for conveying contagious
diseases, especially typhoid fever. Manner
GUS cases have recently been investigated
in London and elsewhere which have clear
ly established tho alarming fact that, how
ever carefully guarded may be the sanitary
arrangements of our dwellings, we are all
of us liable if we use milk from earelessly
managed dairies to suffer the effects of
typhoid contagiop. The cases in point
have been so numerous, that in the present
discussion of the question the evil effect is
undisputed, and the sanitary authorities
universally advise tie boiling of all pur-
chased milk "a boiling heat destroying the
germ Of feverl. The following recently
reported case will serve to show the extent
to which the contagion may spread from a
single dairy.
A MIR. Jessop, occupying dairy farm in
England, died (of heart disease) while re-
covering from typhoid fever, and his young
son was il! with the same disease. Suffi-
cient reason for the infection was easily
found in the soakage of the contents of the
privy vault, through the soil, into well
about IS yards distant. Between the
privy and tho well was the dairy, which
received its supply of water from the lat
ter. For some time previous to the investi-
CATION the water was so bad that it was
not used for drinking, but it was used for
cooking, for washing, and for cleansing
and cooling the milk cans. To follow all
the details in such case would be difficult
if not impossible. 1t can not be asserted
that Mr.. Jessop contracted the fever from
using the impure water from the well,
which is most likely. 1t is possible that
typhoid germs contained in his excrement,
by following the ooze into the well, first
caused the infection of the water. But
however it may have originated, The infec-
ton went from the we'll to the milk cans.
and poisoned the whole supply of milk to
such a degree that the examining physi-
clan reported 800 cases of typhoid fever
among the persons using it.
In another case where members of a
dairy mans family had typhoid fever the
disease spread through that portion of the
town supplied by him to such degree that
in one physicians practice, out of IS re-
cent cases of the disease, Is occurred in
persons who had used milk from this dairy.
There is certainly sufficient ground in
the circumstances of many American milk
diaries for supposing that typhoid fever
(which is peculiarly disease of farm
even distant towns where the milk is used;
and any farmer in whose household case
of fever exists should be exceedingly care
full as to the character of the water used in
washing the utensils of the dairy and Of
the thorough cleansing of the hands Of all
who, having come in contact with the sick,
afterward have to do with the milk.
EGINA.-AmOng the islands of the
Mediterranean is .Egina, which, as one of
the earliest marts of Grecian commerce,
and the cardle of that maritime supre-
macy which made this gifted people, at one
the arts of war and peace, is an object of
equal wonder, admiration, and historical
instruction. The island is barely ten miles
in it's utmost length, with an average width
sterile and hopeful that it had driven its
first settlers away in despair; yet in spite
of it's barren and circumscribed character.
by the energy of it's new colonists, it rose
the commerce, and the most important
maratime power in the world, of those
ages, sending out colonies, and establish
ing centres of trade and business, even in
Egypt, the parent of all arts and sciences.
So rapidly had the people of this little
island progressed in wealth and influence,
that in the sixteenth century before Christ,
we learn from Aristotle that Egina con-
tanned alone nearly half million of slaves;
that like Venice in after ages, all the
wealth Of the East flowed into its barbor;
and that, besides it's hosts Of mercantile
ships, it maintained the largest fleet in
Greece. Its capital city of -Egina was
adorned with stately buildings, while its
magnificent temple to Jupiter, even now.
in ruins, is regarded as one of the noblest
works of Grec;an art, with which we ase
acquainted