New-York tribune., 1899-04-17
MEDICAL AND SANITARY NOTES.

OPERATIVES IN MATCH FACTORIES.-So
careful are the health regulations for operatives in
match factories abroad that before partaking OF
any meal, and prior to leaving the factory at the
close of the day, each individual is required to dof
his or her working clothes and put uncontam-
mated garments. The hands. too, must be thor
~ cleansed by Of softsoap and water. the
hnger-nails duly attended to. teeth cleansed, and
mouth and throat washed with gargle specially
provided all Of these points being enforced by rigid
moreover is carefully subjected to medical exam.
ination by the companys physician. who rejects all
innrmlties of any kind. even to abrasion
slight defect in dentition. or who are delicate
or anRmic; ALL too must either have been vacci-
mated have secured immunity through small
pox.
DISEASES SPREAD BY INSECTS.-According
to NJ Jolly, instances Of a marked character OF ma
llgnant pustue, Egyptian ophthalmia and Delhi boil
conveyed by flies are matters Of record. He has
also found as the result Of careful observations,
that the legs OF flies may be covered by staphyo-
cocci and many other forms OF bacteria. Again.
tuberce is particularly liable to be disseminated
by files; they in contact with tubercle ba-
cl discharged from the body Of the patient
and then alght on food and deposit the tubercle
other substances The influence OF the mosquito. too
In carving the iaria sangunis IS well known and
veyance of malaria. and by some the sleeping
n1 it Is called is thSHsht o to Ss sTe to
possible especially in cases of the diseases men
toned. NJ: Jolly suggests solution OF formal as OF
considerable service.
HEALTH IN THE TROPICS-In a communica-
tion to THE London Chronicle Dr. Alfred r. Wal
lace whose competence to speak upon any scientific
matter In his field will not lightly be questioned.
asserts that the tropics are by no means closed to
white population; In fact on the other hand. he
holds that the tropics, n whole.
ducive to health than the temperate regions.
European soldiers in India. he says, have better
health than the sedentary native classes: the
British soldiers in the Soudan stand up to the
work: thousands of Australians. gold miners. n
dure intense heat, and Holanders have hourshed
for generations in the Dutch colonies. DR.. Wallace
expresses 1T as his opinion that the region on each
most healthy and the most enjoyable abode for
man, where, in short. with the least labor ne can
obtain the greatest amount OF necessaries. the
comforts and the luxuries of life. and can at the
same time develop and cultivate his higher nature
MALARIA PREVENTED BY LIME-The op-
portunities afforded Chief Wiley Of the Chemical
Division, United States Department Of Agriculture,
have led him to the conclusion that the liberal an
plicaton Of lime to all centres Of infection would
prove Of immense benefit. by promoting the Wig
development of nitrfyng organisms thus
securing rapid destruction OF organic matter and
the conversion of the ntrogenous part thereof into
nitric acid or nitrates: and thus II is that lime
destroying the germs of malaria in genera1 and and
yellow fever in particular Briefly 1t may be said
matter. chiefly by furnishing neutral or alkaline
environment In which the nitrifying germs which
most active In the destruction Of organic MAJ,
ter, exercise their most important functions The
nitrifying germs are, In many respects tho rnost
erectual OF all that active I'm the decav us 80
organic materials mi and II malaria be germ ex-
hlbtng Its highest vitality in such an Environment
ana warmth IL is evident that Its vitality NAV he
greatly diminished or entirely DESTROYED bv tb he
action OF lime. Ny the
INFECTIOUS ORIGIN OF RHEUMATIsN
tentlon Is called by Dr. l.. Y. Riesmeyer OF 81
Louis. TO what he terms the growing tendency to
attribute articular rheumatism to an infection
with pyogenic micro-organisms lie reports In de-
tail three cases in which a demonstraple primary
inhammatory focus preceded the attack the first
patient having suffered from a purulent catar-h
Of the ceryi uteri' the second from a parametrc
sllltis before the occurrence OF the rheum-
atism. The prompt action of salophtn In
the treatment OF such Is regarded by DR..
Riesmeyer favoring the opinion as to the mcrob-
ic etiology OF rheumatism. The administration OF
this substance In the pure form is, however. OBJ
Jectionable on account OF It's irritating OF the
stomach when in the form of salicylic acid sal
cphen being deriyatiye Of the latter.