The Dolores star., 1908-06-19
Files Cause Hpidemics.


The history of recurrent epidenics of
contagious diseases, both in Chicago
and throughout the country, is the
history of unusual prevalence of the
insect pest, the greatest of which ie the
summer fly pest.
The typhoid epidemic which ravaged
Chicago in 1902, and which caused a
death roll of 4O2 persons within three
months, was directly traceable to
insanitary conditions and the transmits
sion Of disease through the fly pest.
Chicago health officials of the health
department and physicians and sur
geons after exhaustive experiments
have declared that flies are the greatest
common carriers of contagious dis
eases and the most deadly agents of
infection. They have declared from
time to time that at all cost flies and
insects must be kept from food-stuffs,
milk, and from living rooms in homes
where there are children. Infectious
children's diseases and the child NOR,
tality rate are caused almost wholly by
the prevalence of flies in the home. it
is said, and either direct infection or
indirect Infection through contamr
mated foods with which they have
been allowed to come in contact.
The results of experiments by gov
ernment surgeons and army physicians
and other medical experts afford ample
backing to the statement that of all
dangers the fly pest is the greatest, and
against which the least precautions
are taken.
The most common mode of infection
by insects in our part of the world is
undoubtedly by the indirect method,
the infection of foodstuffs by insects
which have come in contact with in-
fected material. Cholera, typhoid
fever, tuberculosis, and perhaps dysen-
terry are the diseases which are probably
most often conveyed in this way
Most important for us is the connection
between typhoid fever and probably
dysentery. The common house-hy is
the insect chiefly to be dreaded for it
has far wider range of activity than
has any crawling insect, and its
presence is not regarded as n disgrace
to a well-conducted household or insti-
tuition, as is that of other insects. The
conclusions are almost too obvious to
need statement. Rapid disposal of all
infectious material and scrupulous care
in the determination of all insects,
especially the common housefly, should
be among the most ordinary rules OF
household and Institutional hygiene
Chicago Tribune.
Pineapple Sherbet.-Take a pint O.
pineapple, mix with pint of water
melted with sugar to the taste; soak a
tablespoonful of gelatine in half a cur
of cold water for ten minutes, and pou
the hot syrup over and stir well; cool
add the unbeaten whites of two eggs
strain and freeze; or, put in the egg
after straining. This makes clea
white sherbet of good flavor. 1t car
easily be made, using the timed chop
ped pineapple from the grocer's.
The bible commands us to not onl
trust in God, says &. II. Wetherbe, bu
to wait for him to do for us what h
, has promised to do. The trusting an
, the waiting are linked together.
trusting which is not accompanied b
. a willingness to wait for Gods time {
delivering US from trouble, or for givin
r us what we must have as a necessity
! is very poor kind of trusting. In a
i true trusting there is an element {
patience, and the stronger the trustin
! is, the more patient is the waiting.