The evening world., 1891-05-29

Last year the summary report Of TIE EVEN
mo WORLDS Corps OF Free Physicians could
have been submitted on a iady's visiting card.
"In tho name OF suffering humanity
reads as follows:
Families visited. ........... AS.ooo
No. of sick babies treated ................ l.641
No. revisited 1fVV
No. relieved with food, clothing and money s3l
In reaching the II, 842 poor sick babies,
10, 700 houses were entered where each doctor
made q critical examination OF the premises,
making note of whatever nuisance might
create miasma.
Neglected garbage boxes, receptacles for
ashes or refuse requiring dislnfeoiion, damp
cellars that might send up eitiuvia TO poison
the atm osphere: air shafts containing sweep
ings, accumulatons OF rags. filtn. tins and
kitchen rubbish, which Heterogeneous mass
would breed pestlence, were reported at once
to the municipal authorities, and in most In
stances received prompt attention.
In order to run no risks small boys were
hired for q dime or 40 to remove dead cats and
rats from the premises, the doctors In every
case providing a disinfec,ant for the child SC
exposed. In this way the free physicians
individual efforts II huencing a general i'm.
proyement In the health and cleanliness OF the
| city.
Tho work far exceeded tho good accom-
| plished In any former year by the Corps, ant
| It 10 to be hoped will be surpassed by tho stan
that 10 about to be organized. ALI that ii
needed Ia the cooperation AMI financial aid o.
the friends and patrons OF the good cause.-the
cause OF the poor sick babies OF New York.
| Send In your contribution at once and latel
be prepared TO help II necessary with babl
| clothing and baby foods.
A depot for the reception Of such articles vii
be design mated aA soon 40 the doctors begin Il
circulate and can definitely locate deserving
| cases.
Send In your fee as early an convenient tha
| the little ones to whom this charity ministeri
may be reached at onoe. Let the free phyal
clans get out and about TO save the babie
from destruction and eniighten the parents Of
the subject OF contagion, from which so muc
sickness and Suffering results
As one OF THE EVENING WORLD physician
puts 1t .ithere is no sense in alarming the pee
pie, but there 10 great good sense In remind
ing mothers that dirt In any form breeds dii
ease and that care and cleanliness are positlv
II not permanent safeguards to health. A
though medicine may not be needed fe'
words on the subject OF contagion aud iuiec
ton viii invariably set a whole family think
lug. aud the people who think generally act.
The distinction between contagion and II
fectiou 10 not easy to tell. Many So -calle
| contagious diseases are also infectious
that is, they are propagated not only b
contact, but by breathing bad air, dnnkln
bad water and eating bad food. For instance
when grip, influenza and diphtheris are ep
, dem,c, people who work In localities where n
7 sanitary conditions are bad, who breathe col
stsntly an atmosphere charged with chemicall
mill dust, iron hlings or textile nuf
who are compelled to inhale irritatin,
poisonous or offensive vapors, WI
are subject TO extremes OF heat and cold,
cooks, lauudresses. boiler-makers, foundr
men, ct al, and those VINO work In constrain,
attitudes, as taiiors, sea,nstresses, WOO
caryers and weaVers, will be found 10 be mo
susceptible TO throat troubles
While yellow fever. typhoid fever ar
cholera are not contagious, they are unmi
taEaDly infectious, being conveyed from u
sick TO the well through the medium OF al
clothing, water.
A peculiarly about infectious diseases
that they occur In groups, an open sewer
torn-up street causing whole neighborho,
to be attacked with measles or fevers.
Contagious and infectious diseases have VIII
IL called "a stage of incubation" or develc
ment; that is, the time required after the IerI
or poisons have entered the system to manif,
themselves. Although the period may he
tarded by diSiniecting the patient and his q
roundinRS, The following table Is valuable
n showing the average time Of incubation
infectious diseases:
Dphtheua will do'sIop itSslf in. .............. Sd
oohet sNe'''''''.''.''. .'..-................. d.
Typhus to d.
IN hryHpeiAs ID
Chicken poI.. I......................... ....,,, Ad
Measles. ~ d