Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-02-20
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mortuary report.
If the greatest percentage of
typhoid fever is produced
through the water supply, how
are we to account for cases up
in the mountainous regions
where the water is supposed to
be the purest of the pure? We
have seen some cases where
there was not another case with
in miles of them and they used
no other than cistern water-the
cistern we'll covered and no pub
lie highway or road near from
which to get dust. There was a
lot of decaying vegetables and
other matter in the cellar.
There have been more reputed
cases of typhoid fever in and
near Corvallis during the last
two OF three months than I have
known during any one of the
last % years. The greater per
cent of those cases are among
users of we'll water. How do
they account for it in the wells
if they get it from the water.
J. O. Wilson, whose son had
typhoid fever, had a sample of
his we'll water, together with a
sample from the we'll of a nearby
neighbor, examined by Profess
sors Knisely and Pernot. Mr..
Wilson reports that the profes-
sors stated that his well water
was the most they had ever
examined and his neighbor's
was bad. Both of these wells
are about four miles south OF
town and one is about 800 feet
and the other but little farther
from the river.
If typhoid fever, diphtheria,
cholera, etc., are not produced by
inhygenic, conditions, :then why
do the authorities order genera
cleaning up and disinfectine
when an epidemic of either OF
those diseases hreakS out. with
good results from the cleansing
I'VE have advocated for years
that this disease, with others,
can be produced by a filthy or an
unhygienic surrounding which
will generate or produce the
germ. Further, that it can be
carried by water, fruit, vege
tables, or food of any kind-mill
when not cooked or boiled.
/ It can be carried as can the
germs of scarlet fever or small
pox, but not so readily, in thu
clothing where it may b,
disentangled and carried by tn.
air to the mouth or nose. Anc
last, but not least, which W.
havesheld for a long time, is th'
: fly. Prof. Pernot and other
have been experimenting fol
some time with the fly and hav'
decided that this may be a sourc
, of contamination. May no
this be one of the greatest of all
He is ever around the sick room
r in the kitchen and dining room
2 in cities and hamlets and ever i,
( the mountains, and on every
thing. Look we'll to your flies
as we'll as your water, milk, AM
other sources.
AS to the sick room-iook well to tt
hygienic conditions of the room. 81
j, that everything is kept perfectly cles
ana that there is plenty of fresh al
See sthat3lall the sexcrements from tt
;. kidneys and bowels are Immediately r
V moved and emptied and the chamb
-? thoroughly disinfecred with carbolic aci
. corrosive sublimate, chloride of lime,
formaldehyde. AS to the disposition
the discharge-if you bury it someone
: liable to get benefit. If you disinfe
Y the contents in the chamber and dun
e it into the closet the particles are liat
W not to be thoroughly broken up al
disinfected in the chamber before TAX
- to the closet and by this means scatt
Z the disease. My method. and l co
5. slider it the only safe one, is to burn
le pour boiling water over all discharges.
n After you are through with the fey
have the room thoroughly cleaned al
~ disinfected. Until the patient is W
y along in convalescence the dischars
I'd should be we'll cared for.
, | Naru racantly Ii hss been shnYn