Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-02

for the development of the disease are
more favorable, because people are
more indoors" said he. "They live a
quieter life in rooms not always well
ventilated, and in many cases drinking
water that is full of disease carrying
germs. The use of impure water
causes more typhoid than anything
else. Then many live in houses over
cellars that have water in them.
People Are More Susceptible.
also people eat food that has been
stored in rooms or cellars. They lie
longer in bed, and do not exercise
enough to produce strong and vigorous
action of their organs. The conse.
quence is that they are more suscepti-
BILE TO disease of the nature of ty-
phoid.
''In towns where there is practically
no filtering system, the danger is very
great, and each year the problem be-
comes more grave. River water can't
help being impure, with all the waste
matter of hundreds of cities and towns
emptied into it, Notwithstanding the
fact that it is claimed to purify itself
every few miles. Even though it does
do this before it has time to go very
far with the purifying process new
waste is emptied into it, and the work
has to be begun anew.
During the summer months flies
and mosquitoes ARE undoubtedly -ac-
countable for much of the spread of
typhoid, but winter of course, puts a
stop to that manner of disease spread
ing. Malaria dies out with the coming
of winter, and gives away to the grip,
which is likely to be plentiful this win
ter, owing to the dampness about peo-
pies houses, and in the ground
what few cases there are of mala-
ria are those left over from the sum
mer, when people think themselves al
most impregnable to any sort of dis
ease, and expose themselves unneces-
sarily to the dampness of swamps. riv-
er bottoms and cool nights. Almost
the only way in which malaria can be
spread is through germ carrying in
sects that disappear as the winter ap.
proaches.
Grip Is Sure to Come.
"The grip is sure to come with win,
ter and last until spring. 1t gets the
strongest of us, and makes us misera
BILE for many weeks during the cold
months : What it really is is unex
Iplainable. A general breaking down Of
the system. combined with colds and
nervousness is perhaps the best dein
ition that can be given it. Out of a
community of two hundred people
have seen as many as twenty taken
with this dreaded disease in one day.
Pneumonia is caused by similar
conditions, but does not usually appear
until the breaking up of winter and
the coming of spring. The warm, sun
shiny days of early spring, after the
ennui of the winter, proves very invit
ing to most people, and without suffi
cient protection they go out to enjoy
as much of the pleasantness as they
can.
Colds Result From CareIessness.
ga cold is usually the result o
such carelessness. which later devel
ops into bad cold or the grip. Tht
air is so warm and the ground 81
damp and cold that the extremes
makes favorable conditions for lunt
and throat diseases.
| pneumonia is contagious to abou
the same extent as typhoid fever
Merely coming in contact with a per
son ill with the disease is not enough
to make it catching but those in car,
of the sick person are very likely tt
become subject to that disease iron
breathing the air exhaled from tn
lungs of the one afflicted. Unless doc
tors and nurses use extraordinary pre-
caution in handling such case. the,
are apt to take it from their patients
From their daily contact with disease
they often become careless and ar
caught before they are aware OF it.
"These three diseases are going to b
our worst ones this winter, and pneu
monia is by no means the one to b
dreaded the least of these. Eve
though it does not kill the patient ur
less extreme care is used for years AFT
erward there is likely to be a return
| of the disease and the lungs will neve
again be as strong as they were befor
the first illness.
| Scarlet Fever Probable.
1--WE will be subject, however, to al
|
surprised if there are great humble
of scarlet fever cases. While w
seem to be getting control of thi
disease to a large extent, still Their
is great danger of it's breaking out,an
no germs thrive SO well as the scarle
fever germs in winter 1t is one q
the most contagious of the winte
diseases and should be guarde
1 against.
Il "a cold seems a little matter to tn
one having it. Besides the unpleasant
ness of having the head stopped u
for few days. or the lungs trifl
sore from coughing. nothing more
though of it, but every precautio
should be taken to prevent the advanc
of cold into more serious complics
tions.
"The sore throat should not be n,
elected. A peculiar dryness of tn
throat will be noticed for few day
I before the person discovers that he