Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1885-12-19
TYPHOID FEyeF
Vsnses eitts Existence snd Methods cfpis'
sanitation.

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vsu,e, citt, Existence and Method. cfpi.'
sanitation.
TIE c~su>a.ion Of typhoid or cntero
its,.r is Involved in grea, cb>,yy.tg
>eue 4 The hs, authorities believe .
u1y orig na'e ne H.ra d; IN other word
.> 'ae a.s. ,>pglyn, IF this theory
pr N0rcui-ou. states Il; "Ih, pal-
son IT cl'er5y fever Is contained TO me
smanaticu> from certSin forms of yr,rc-
hu- organic matter, and 'a, often
generated 10y tpgal fermentation.
Other authorities, equally good, hold
that ,as appearance OF typhoid FEVER
cases necessarily pre>uppo,c> tag eN-
i>truc. uf q cas- which stand, .o thu
later au.> in The relation OF cause To
| pi IS, aNi ,h3t, ii lhi> case i no. lis
covered j. r. simply because ..u ari-
! lcn2e E, obscure, or the investigator iu-
g.> need. Unfortunately The .jel-
| LITIGATION oi TIE typhoid germ ha, met
v,, 5.ea satisfactorily determined. and
until ID j. we can hardly expect Jhe
my >trvy now surrounding the p%ruiuc-
tion ut lhe disease to be cleared away.
In regard 70 the means by which the
fever spreads. there i more uuauimitN
Of opinion, Iuy water OF wells which
ha- becuw, impure from the leaking OF
vaults aul rc..pools has been shown
over and over again to have caused ~.
phOid e~pidcnics. Notable instances Of
this have occurred in our country, as
in Syracuse in 1876. and the NOR re-
cent epidemic at Plymouth, IA.
Milk has also many times been lie
medium through which the typhoid
poison h9, been disseminated, Impure
water has been used to wash out the
milk cans. If, indeed. il la, not served
ohcr purposes, and The milk has thus
become infected. \ striking example
of Ibis medium Of cOntagion was The
outbreak of typhoid at Maryicbone,
London. Within a few weeks one hun
drcd and twenty-three families We're
attacked Mr.. Radcliffe traced the
cause Of this 20 milk which came from
q particular farm on which water used
Tor dairy purposes contained eNrrr.
mental matters IRON a patient suffer.
Ing from tntrrie frter Immediately
before and at he time II the outbreak
Epidemic, occurring at Edinburgh,
Glasgow, Bristol and Dublin have
also been raced 10 milk. These
fact should ,tir up all health officials
to the vital Importance Of the most
rigid scrutiny Of the milk supplied %
tn" people under their charge. and
should lead our Judges to intlict the
rg'"rest penalties upon those detected
il the aduIteration Of thi- most essen
tlal food. That this di,ease may be
contracted by those who nurse the sick
j, possible, but il this ever occurs il is
extremely rare. The discharge, from
the lutc>tlne> are believed to contain
the iniectiye material; and in the pre-.
en' stat" Of our knowledge, 10 bury
these discharges in the ground or to
cast them into the -ewcr without pre-.
yious di,infection, must be looked up.
on a. criminal 1t is not difficult to
understand that the infective material
OF such uHdi,intected discharges may
cling to The interior Of drain tiles and
sewers, and through defective plumb.
ing find admission to the dwelling and
sleeping rooms Of the well, This i,
doubtless the explanation Of the origin
OF those cases which are ascribed to
sewer "a.
typhoid fever is cminently a disease
of the autumn, and its greater preya.
lence at this season Of tho year is at.
tributed b. some to the decay Of vegc.
tatjOn Others have found its prevalence
to depend upon the rise and fall of the
ground water, Just how far these con-
di,jon> affect the prevalence Of the
1"ver is q matter Of conjecture, and as
they are entirely beyond our control
we must in our endeayor toward pre-
Nrntion and restriction pay strict at
i"nllon 10 cleanliness in all its forms.
and especially to the thorough disin-
lection Of discharge, from patients.
For this purpose the committee on dis
intcctants Of the American Public
Health Association recommend solu-
tiuns Of chloridn of lime, of chl0rinated
soda. Or OF bi-chIoridr Of mercury,
Ia our cite, III Uphold patient, arc
largely recruited from thrranks Of those
of ample meall,, who daring the sum.
MGR pend their time in the country,
aud often at the most fashionable
watering places. II is notorious that
these RESORT arr, IT, a rule, un.anitarv
in thrir appointments. The crowding
OF human being, in such places, with
thr consequent accumulation Of human
waste, would, It would seem, help TO
account tor the large representation Of
T. phoid fever victims in The ranks of
their patrons. A study Of typhoid cases
with reference to this point would be
interesting and doubtless instructive
SEA me-.