Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-01-06


case the disease is said to be actively
| the pestilence may be flies which may
| have passed the unsavory places they
affect to a neighboring dinner table
/ Usually, however, typhoid fever is
transmitted in Il more roundabout
| fashion; by such vehicles as water
! milk or raw shell fish. DR.. Winslow
cites case, illustrating danger that
may be lurking unseen, in the following
photographic:
"The possible Importance of the last
article of died in conveying the infec-
ton was first made evident by an cpl
demic among the students of Wesleyan
University at Middletown, Conn.,, in
1894, studied in great detail by Pro-
fessor Fl. W. Conn. The oysters which
did the damage in this case We're grown
| in bed at Fair Haven, within three
hundred feet of the sewer outlet from
n house containing two cases of typhoid
ternity banquets on the night Of Octo-
Der H. The students present did not
live at other times together, and be-
tween the three menus there was no
common bond, not general to the town
at large, except the oysters. Two weeks
later, the period typhoid fever takes to
develop in the system, one in every four
of the students who had been at the
banquets sickened with the disease.
cities, Wesleyan alumni and members
from Yale, who ate the Fair Haven
oysters six additional cases of typhoid
fever developed, while four other fra
ternities which held initiation suppers
on the same night, but with no raw
oysters, or oysters from another source.
had no cases Of the disease"
Typhoid epidemics traced to water
are more numerous than others. To DR..
Winslow nothing is clearer from facts
CLEANED than that typhoid fever is a
perfectly preyentable plague. Indeed,
it has been said by one Jealous sani-
tartan that for every case of typhoid
fever some one should be hanged 1t
is also of the utmost Importance that
when the disease appears sanitary
measures should be promptly institut-
ed to destroy the germs and to prevent
its spread.
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.
If the prediction of Farmer Trigg, of
the Rockford Register, is to be credit
ed, Farm land will not advance S. an
acre during 1903"
The Davenport Democrat notices
that no stringency in money was APP
parent in Davenport Saturday, one of
the greatest interest paying days that
city has ever known.
The Eagle Grove Eagle suggests that
IF there are glazing inequalities and
many schedules too high in the Ding1ey
bill why not right them up thru recip-
rocity treaties and solve the yexatious
question of revision in that way? If we
have something to spare in that line
why not get something for 1t via recip-
rocity? We have got along swimming
ly with them for about five years, and
there Is no necessity for giving them
away The Eagle thinks Reciprocity
ought not to scare anybody"
The Sigourney News urges upon fits
readers, BE careful and painstaking in
your daily entries on the book Of 1903
Clean minds and clean hands make
clean records. There will be mistakes,
but renewed, earnest endeavor Will
conceal the fault from sharp-eyed Con-
science himself"
The Gate City observes of an Eldora
man: ~. c. Crockett, the new clerk of
ting and gracious thing in making H. L.
Bosquet of Pella his deputy. Mr. Bos-
uuet was a candidate for clerk before
the republican state convention and
made showing Of popularity that was
highly creditable to him. He is an Iowa
pioneer and one of the most deserving
men in the state"
The Cedar Rapids Gazette says the
country needs more macadam wagon
roads more than it needs more rail-
roads.
The Clinton Herald believes 1.-THE
Venezuelan incident is doomed to close
without bringing forward any new he
roes."
The Waverly Independent, abiding
to the suicide of Mrs. Bonawitz at Mar
shalltown, says: There are others who
can dump mass of reeking putrefac-
ton upon community, but they have
not that delicate sense of the eternal
fitness of things to Shoot themselves in
the head"
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