The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-06-02


OF all the school rooms, in east west,
The school of nature love the best.
Diphtheria.
Within the last few months the med
ical profession IN Boston has been giving
earnest and extended consideration to
this modern disease, which has SO rapidly
Come to be one of New England's three
great scourges-the other two being con-
sumption and pneumonia. We present,
in brief, some of the more important
facts elected by the discussion.
l. Contrary to previous belief, there
seems to be no special relation between
its prevalence and bad drainage or other
unsanitary conditions. The best dis
tricts in Boston have suffered as much as
the worst; in some cases even more SO.
1t is the same elsewhere, as careful in
vestigations attest.
2. Its prevalence must at present be
regarded as due to direct personal con-
tagion. 1t is greatest in the school
months, with a marked falling off in
July and August Patients are often al
lowed to go about freely during conva-
lescence, while not yet fully free from
the disease.
Doctor Folsom says, cit is not uncom-
mon for me to see patients in the out
H
sitting side by side with patients affected
with other diseases, thus exposing
many persons to the danger of infection
during the time they remain in the
waiting-room of the hospital"
Some of these persons have ridden to
the hospital in crowded cars.
But mild cases are the chief source of
the trouble. Doctor Prince says, "It is
my constant experience to meet with
where there are patches of membrane in
the throat, and yet the symptoms are so
mild that the child is allowed to mingle
with the rest of the family and go about
the streets. I think there is no ques-
ton that such cases are the most prolific
sources of the contagion.''
Further, among the cases that often
fail to be recognized are those of nasal
diphtheria. The membrane is out of
sight, and for a time, at least, the dis
ease is easily mistaken for a cold. It
the lighter forms of diphtheria, may
give rise to the most malignant.
3. A case OF malignant diphtheria is,
not seldom, mistaken for one of mem
branous Group, commonly regarded as
non-contagious. 1t is, therefore, neither
reported nor duly guarded against.
4. 1t is necessary that diphtheria
should be taken charge of as contagious
disease by the board of health, with full
powers and all adequate provisions, and,
further, that measures should be taken
for the better understanding of the dis
ease by the people.
5. Diphtheria is a most debilitating
disease. One of its chief dangers is
death by heart-failure, and that, too,
when the patient SCENE to be in a state
of convalescence. From the first every
thing should be done to keep up the
strength by food and stimulants.
Causes of Crime.
The Arena.
No one who studies the problems of
poverty and crime can fail to be impress
ed with the power of the saloon as a fac
tor in the degradation of the human race.
Rum makes criminals of the poor. In
the city of New York alone there are
nearly 5000 saloons.
Below 14th street there are Ill Pro-
testant churches and 1000 saloons.
These whiskey shops control the politics
of the empire city, fill the criminal courts,
and make the lives of tens of thousands
miserable.
Mr.. Justice FitzGerald says that in
Ireland intemperance is the cause of
nineteent-wentieths of the crime.
Grants Famous Words.
Ulysses S. Grant, the greatest soldier
OF the war of the rebellion, was born on
the 9th day of this month, 1922. Tenn
perance people have adopted his famous
dispatch: 81 propose to fight it out on
this line if it takes all summer" Yes,
and many summers.
A drunken young man broke into the
White House. This brings this terrible
curse home to the chief magistrate of our
country. The telegram says that Pres
ident Harrison helped to tie his hands
so that he could be removed without do
ing further damage. Did the president
ask himself if he had done all he could
to drive the saloons out of the district of
Columbia?
The president and his appointees. the
district commissioners, can do great
deal more than is done to put down this
internal evil.-Aduance.
The saloon is one of the feeders of the
immortality that fourishes under cover,
and which, more than any other one
thing, is undermining society and enerv-
ating manhood and womanhood today.
The facts are known. It is useless to
make laws against it unless the people
are aroused When all can see and feel
hot