St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-02-19

| hntclN III different persons; but ii med
lchl attendant who entirely ignores the
contaGlOusncSS of the maladN is likely
t" neglect reasonable and necessary
precautions to protect himself and
others from the risk of infection.
When IL case of diphtheTia occurs in
Il house without evidence OF impoIta-
ton from without. still more when ScN-
eral cases occur together or in quick
succession. there will he good reason To
suspect that sewers, seSSpOolS. or con-
! tamlnatcd water may be the source of
the disease. My belief is that. in il
very large proportion of cases, there j.
;IS close IL relation between diphthclia
ami inSanitary conditions as exists he
tween typhoid fever and similar inSani-
taiI conditions; and | scarcely need
say that, If this be So, the general rec
oguition of the fact Is of the greatest i'm
| portancc with reference to the adoption
of preventive measures. There is Ica-
son to believe that much more harm
would result from ignorance of the filth
origin of diphtlcrii' than from practi-
callv ignoring its intectiouSncSs.
Many Instances have come to my
knowledge in which fetid t;rcal emara-
/ tons have appeared To he the direct
cau>c of diphthrria.
One ease WAS of II family consisting
of Il lady. her husband, four children.
and three servants. The house is drain
/ ed int" Il ce>Spool about twenty yards
distant. The accumulation of many
months was cmpticd one daV while the.
wind WAS hluwing towards the house
/ from the cc>Spool. and IL very offensive.
Had 4 L
afterwards all the fonr children hecanIr
trvcri>lI and complained of sore throat:
til, ton>ilS were seen to be intlamed and
covered with yellowi>h white patches.
In Il few days two of the servants were
attacked. one rather severely. and last
/ lN. the lady. Her IOIi>il> were intlImcd
and covered 10y false membrane. The
only members of the family who escaped
wa> the husband. who WAS away from
home all day. and one servant.
In another case the family consisted
"f the father and mother. and >cN
eli childIrn and three servants 'On go
ing up the garden to the huu>c my nose
W;r> as>ailcd hl horrible stink. and
seeing some men at work CLOSE to thc
house, | stopped L" see what they were
doing. | found that they had ripped
open u drain running in front of TIA,
hnu>, virhiu I,r wards of il and The,
had opcrcd Il cc>>pool into which the
drain ti"Wcd found the mother. tiN,
of the children. and Nv" of the >crN ant,
suffering from sore throat. Mr. Bate
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