The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-04-01
PRICE THREE CENTS.
Typhus.

Typhus thus far has appeared as far
west as st. Louis and northward as far
as Massachusetts. In New York city
alone there have been over $50 cases.
Eight per cent. of the victims die. Most
of the patients came from the infected
ship Massilia AS the negroes captured
in Africa and crowded together on slave
ships gavo yellow fever to their white
captors, so the immigrants from the
Massilia spread the deadly typhus upon
shore.
DR., Cyrus Edison writes an important
paper on typhus in the New York Her.
aid, 1t is also known rs ship fever and
spotted fever, Like almost every other
ailment, it is a microbe disease. No ex.
periments, so far as known, however,
have yet been made in the way of inoc-
ulation for it, 1t is essentially disease
Of filth, famine and nonventilation. 1t
may finally attack the cleanlest and
most wealthy. but it invariably appears
among the dirty, inscffieiently nourished
tenement house people Thus these out
casts take their revenge at last on high
society, 1t is the old lesson anew-that
no man can live 10 himself alone
In the dark, foul dcns where poverty
stricken wretches huddle together and
shut all the windows to keep out the
cold, typhns most loves to nest. Conse-
quently it is worse in winter. The open
ing of the windows in summer drives
the deadly germ away.
Most imDortGnt to us, however. and
that typhus i not the only one Of the
terror phs,n .olni which the Russian fam
inc will let loose upon the woIid. The
Russian grip has already devastated Eu-
rope and America, growing more viru-
lent each season. A Pandora's box of
deadly diseases will be poured upon the
civilized world from this Russian fam
inc. 1t is many ii century since fam
inc so terrible as the one now raging in
Russia has afflicted the world. As in
the old time and always, it is followed
by pestilence Russia is menace to
the health of the nations at present
1t is curious to note how persons of
different race behave under the infu-
ence Of the typhus delirium. We quote
from DR.. Edison:
There Is one thing which has been noticed
among these patients which is to the last de-
gree strange from the standpoint Of the physi-
clan. | have spoken of the delrium of typhus
and of its intense character. Ordinarily speak
ing this delirium is very active, the patient
especially if he be an lrishman or an Ameri-
can-is kept in bed with difficulty; he talks
about his business, his troubles, his private af-
fairs increasingly. say if he be Irish, for this
intense activity of mind when the patient is
delirious, and of body, too, for that matter, is
more noticeable among them than among any
other race. The French come next. But the
English, the Germans, Spaniards or Italians
show the same thing and need constant watch
ing, especially to keep them in bed. In the
cases of these Russian Hebrews the observed
effects are all reversed. They are phlegmatic,
dull, stupid, apparently; they talk little if
any, and they lie, for the most part, quietly in
their beds or toss from side to side without at
tempting to get up. When the mind is in that
semiconscious state in which impressions may
be conveyed to it and partly understood, these
Russians obey orders at once without protest.
1t is enough for them that any one seeming to
have authority should command.