Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-06-01
rHE sAU1rARY INSPECTOR



The May number of the Sanitary Inspector
is fully up to the standard in interest md
importance Of subjects treated. The foi-
lowing are some of the topics: .'Maine
as a Summer Resort" ..Malarial News
1.-TWO Outbreaks of Diphsheria BY Impor-
| tation," -.Cholera and Sanitary Work,
School Baths" and the second paper on
House Plumbing and Drainage
MAINE As A SUMNER REsoKr.
Under this head the author Of the In
spector" says:
As vast and varied summer resort this
State has much al stake, and success depends
in considerable degree upon our manage
ment of certain sanitary questions, which are
| before us. With the insight which we now
have into the causation of infections and
epidemic diseases, we do not have to attain
an extreme moral elevation, before per-
ceiving that carelessness in commingiing
infection and susceptible individuals, is akin
| to mixing arsenic with other peoples food or
putting strychnine into their whiskey bottles.
| We are quite sure that another reason why
Maine will be preferred by many fathers, Is
summer home for their families, is because
the law establishes q local board of health in
every town, and that the infectious diseases
are prevented and restricted as far as can be.
but are not hidden away, the doors of infec-
ted houses being marked with a placard,
bearing the name of the disease which is
within.
| MALARIA News.
| An item in one of our western medical
| journals says that malaria has become very
prevalent in Maine of late years. One of
our Maine physicians told us of a case,
which he treated some years ago, which re-
sembled intermittent fever but we shall wait
| for at least the first undoubted case of ma
larial disease to originate on our soil, before
we believe this curious announcement,
which is not creditable even to the imagina-
ton of its author.
| ScoTcH Oars ESSENCE.
| The State Board of Health of Massachu-
sets and the Druggists Circular have been
exposing the fraud advertised and sold as
cure for the morphine habit, under the name
of Scotch Oats Essence. Chemical analysis
shows that, while the unfortunate morphine
eater is hoping to free himself from his thral-
dom, he is unconsciously binding his chains
more tightly by using this mixture, which
contains about one half grain of morphine
in each ounce, and from 30 to As per cent. of
alcohol.
Every few years a similar exposure is
made; but still there is sufficient number
of people who will not be warned of the dan
ger of trusting their health and lives to the
irresponsible makers of these alleged cures
for the opium habit, to furnish lucrative
field for the operations of such knaves.
| SANITARY NOTES
| Oh, the cannibals! Somebody up in
Lewiston wanted an emetic for child and
wrote to the druggist: please send ipecac
enough to throw up four-year-old girl"
| As sanitary measure in Madrid the
abolition of gas in the theatres and the uni
versal substitution of the electric light has
been decreed.
A case of fatal CHAMBERS in the human sub
ject, which has recently occurred at San Jose,
California, emphasizes anew the danger
which always threatens persons, who have
anything to do with animals suffering with
that disease.