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take precautions for the public safety
from a secret foe of pestilence and
poison SO vastly more destructive to the
lives of our people?
"Local control of the guarantees Is
fraught with a great danger. 1t was
only few years ago that the consulting
physicians of Boston issued pamphlet
in which they seriously proclaimed their
belief that cholera is neither contagious
nor infectious; that 1t cannot be propa-
gated by being near the sick, nor by the
handling of the secretions or excretions
from bodies Of the sick or dead; that the
disease is epidemic and cannot be con-
trolled or restrained in it's progress by
guarantees or by cordons Of any kind.
DIR. Snow, Of Providence, sanitarian
of reputation, has expressed similar sem
timents. Now, suppose men Of such
views were in charge of the quarantine
service at Boston or Providence. Infect
ed ships would DO admitted without
fumigation, and their passengers with
out proper inspection. The whole coun-
try would be endangered"
The views of the Boston and Provi-
dence physicians, the doctor continued,
were those generally held throughout
the country twenty-five years ago, and
he remarked In an amused manner upon
the scoring he received from the medical
profession and the press in 1865 for de-
claring the cholera to be portable and
contagious He was publicly denounced
by the New York sanitary commission
and by the Academy Of Medicine.
eff any man, professional or layman,
should say now that cholera is not port
able and not contagious he would speed
lily forfeit his reputation for common
sense" was the chuckling conclusion Of
his comment upon these things.
DR.. Sayre has q letter received by him
from Captain Montague, Of the British
army, who served many years in India,
and had frequent experiences with the
cholera. In this letter the captain wrote
Of the military custom which obtains in
India of placing Gordon around an in
fected town or city, saying that where
the picket service was rigid and nc
one was allowed to pass In or out of the
town, the disease had never been known
to pass the Gordon. The doctor quoted
this letter to me as an evidence, Ii more
were needed, that the disease Is portable
and that it can be restricted by rigid
quarantine measures and finally stamped
out. The old Boston and Providence
idea, he said, would not do.
"But want to emphasize the state
ment that it will be very grave mis-
take If any of our national or local off
Gals having control of guarantees shall
proceed upon the idea that cholera will
not do its deadly work in winter. Al
that season." the famous sanitarian con
cluded, "our overcrowded tenemsnts are
closed to fresh air and their occupants
are hived together like 80 many bees
The conditions become ripe for dis
ease. Many of the large towns viii b
in an insanitary condition, for in thu
winter sanitation is always relaxed
The cholera cannot be created in thii
country, but 1t can be propagated, and
the tenements and the sluIns of tn,
large cities are a good field for 1t, one
started, frost or no frost. We must re
member Russia and keep our powder
dry for the common foe in winter as II
summer EDISON BRACE.