The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1907-11-29
A TIM ELY
WARNING:
Given by the North Dakota
State Board of Health.
DANGER IN THE AIR
Steps to Eradicate the Dreaded Dis
ease. Consumption. Should be
Taken by the Public.

Iakcn ny the PuDllc.
DR.. Grassick, of the State
Board of Health, sends out the
following bulletin for publica-
ton directing the attention of
the public to another exceed
ingly common source of danger
to the health of the people.
Bacteriology is the guardian,
if not the parent, of preventive
medicine. 1t may be laid down
as a general proposition that
all infectious diseases are mi
crobic in origin. We get ac-
uuainted with a great many
specific organisms. We know
something of their life history,
their manner of growth and
development, their natural |
habitat, their mode of ingress
into the body, and their appear
anCe under the microscope.
We are getting acquainted
with the lessons that they pro-
duce and know something &
about their behavior, inside
and outside of their host.
Bacteriology therefore forms
a basis on which to rear a
structure OF rational preventive
medicine. Without it we are
like ship without helm, COM
pass or chart; with it we may
weather the waves and guide
our bark into a haven of safety.
A striking illustration of this
is furnished in the results
obtained by the Yellow Fever
Commission that was sent in
1899 to Havana. where the
disease has been rampant for
ages. In 1900, notwithstand-
ing the fact that although the
most rigid general sanitary
methods were adopted, there
developed 1,244 cases of the
disease, with 80 deaths. After
demonstrating that the mos
quito was responsible for it's
spread, and methods in con-
formity with this fact adopted,
in the beginning of the year
1902 Gen. Woods reported
"only five deaths in the past
nine MONTHS" The Govern
ment Public Health Report,
dated Nov. 1st. 1907, gives for
the current year five cases and
one death.
The great scourge of the
human race is tuberculosis,
and sanitarians all over the
world are studying the best
methods of preventing it $
spread. 1t has been demon
strated that the germ, may
gain entrance through illi'ain-
ton, ingestion or innoculation.
The commonest way being
through inhalation. Eating
tubercular meat or drinking
the milk of tubercular cows
may afford an avenlt oi ia
fection, but by far the greatest
scource of danger is not from
dumb animals, but in man
himself. The emmanations
from the lungs and throats of
the consumptive teeming with
millions of disease germs are
expectorated promiscuously in
private homes, in churches, in
school rooms, in shops and
factories, on sidewalks etc.
They become dry, are ground
to dust. are taken into the
air, inhaled by everybody, and
find suitable soil in many.
There is a state law that pre-
vent the putting out CT poison
for fear our dogs or cats may
happen. to get dose, but we
allow ,expectorating on the
;; public thoroughfares, exposing
I.the lives ot our: little ones,
ones, 'odr sons, our daughters
,, and the general public to a
virus more potent than strych.
nine. The sooner we waken
up to the fact that human
beings are of more value than
dumb animals the better II
1 will be for our sanitary con
: ditions.
A great advance WIFI be made