The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-10-09
OPINIONS OF PHYSICIANS.
The Cases OF Maisriai Fever Treated By New
York aud brooklyn Practitioners.


A reporter Of THE SUN visited many Of
the leading physicians In New York and Brook
iyn, and all OF them agreed that the sickness
contracted at the Centennial Exhibition was Of
alarming magnitude In the extent to which II
attacked visitors. One OF them estimated that
one out Of every ten persons who go to the Cen
tennial and spend considerable time on the Ex-
hibition grounds, or stay over night in an ad-
Jacent hotel, suffer more or less from typhus
symptoms, bowel complaints, or other derange-
ments Of the system.
Or. A. Clark said 1.-THE disease has become
so prevalent that some doctors call 1t the Cen
tennia fever. ] nave termed it the cessp ool
fever as II is best described by that name. II
IL similar TO the disease which made so many
people sick In the National Hotel, Washington,
several years ago. They had symptoms OF poison
ing Of their systems. It is the same with
people who 20 TO the Centennii II Exhibition.
They are poisoned with foul air from defective
DIR aiDage. Where so many people conRregate
there should be thorough drainage, with plenty
of running water to carry away all refuse.
Without good sanitary regulations health cam
HestS ssa%S oah af,sr p9a5d nS 9i
and adjacent hotels"
Dr. l.. A. Sayre said that. In addition to defec-
ness. People who go TO Philadelphia subject
themselves to great fatigue In running about
ines. MANY who are abls TO spend only short
time there, DO In one or two days what should
require a week. The result Is that they are
weared and their debiitated systems are rem
dered extremely liable to sickness. lie added
understand that the water used for drinking
purposes on the grounds Is not wholesome. OF
course people VINO drink large quantities OF Tad
water will feel its i'll effects"
cases OF " Centennial" or cesspool fever in my
own practice, and l hear Of many Ia The prac-
ticc OF other ely physicians. Men. women, ani
poison In their bodies. They have inhaled the
odors OF numerous cesspools, aud have slept In
hotels built on grounds through which no ade-
which is typhoid In Its character, and still has
not all the symptoms Of typhus fever. The
other BOWEL nplaints. Some deaths have
occurred IN well-known families OF ms acquaint-
and prominent business man died from fever
contricted while on a visit to the Centenni,l Il.
Inc dInkinG % water supplied to Centennial visit
Nfs foIE Fin, Mate: Ss g.. .is9 them
tells at the Centennial grounds 10 ~ bad as bas-
been reparess- drinking pur o.es comes out OF a
olrty nver fouled 10y sewers running into u,
somebody has been guilty OF M ,s
VINO stay there any length Of time escape SICK
ness" .r, ,,...,, s,.....
IL al rmingly prevalent. 1t might be prevented
by adequate SAINT ry precautions. In ADDITION
TO pnd drainage and poor water, there 10 gredt
g uss Of the disease in the large amount OF
earth that has been dtg out ~ Rraulhs Tue
grounds and for foundation OF buluihRs' ieO-
ole VINO live To the vicinity of extensive ekcaNa.
lions usually suffer from typhus symptoms ana
other deraugements OF the sNsten. 80,
Dr. a. Is. Crosby bad noticed temhtkhplo
number of cases Of "ceespOul tsNer hinOi Y
people returning from Philadelpnla. ne n
water, changed diet, and other disturbing
pr' L. Il, Richardson considered the preva-
lence OF the disease well WORTHY ltteh'i%vn. %
Newly excAvated ground creates disorders. me
building ot large hotels IN noighOorhuou NOT
made healthy py good sewerage should not oe
permitted. The onty way TO secure goou hehllh
in and about the Exhibition grounds IL TO nave
good sewers and plenty OF water 20 nOou Tue
sewers and erectually carry on all the waste
DR.. John q. johnson said that a large number
| of his patients were persons VINO hsu come
| nome sick from Philadelphia. or who were taken
| III with typhus symptoms soon atteI tneir ar
| rival home, the result OF drinking pau wh.er on
the Centennial grounds and stay 'ng IN the hoteis
near py The causes OF the typhoid lever oil
J PM ,delphia, be thinks, Is want OF proper
| drainage. over crowding Of populstioni In hotels
| jaiis. and army camps. produces tyPhus. ~,
| Juhnson continued Every visitor nave met
| who has returned from the Centennial has com
| plained OF the condition OF 'he water ~ .sn sp'
| ington whicn carried OF so many ana destroyed
| for "A time the reputation OF tue bolel, was elm
| pIy [, phoid fever produced bf the ledhHRe y
| the sewerage INTO the utlhkihk ma.oi' w w
| Lake Mahopac epidemic last summer was owlnI
| Ia the same cause. lhe uotel there IN wnich th
| disease broke out had been enlarged au'
| tho old vaults butt over. lhe water suppl
| came from the lake, and the contents OF VI
| vaults were washed by the spring ireshet5 inl'
| the reservoir. Decayed animal ana Wgethol
| matter will generate typhus fever. Z ses
| tYphus have occurred in Isolated country places
| IN 4 rm houses, and the cause OF the disease pa
always been found In vaults or mareny i"hu'