The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-03-27
Or. MCORMACk'S LECTURE
Continued from First Page)

sumption without getting into your
body the germ from a previous case
than you car raise corn on one OF
your farms without seed. II all the
expectorated matter and other in
fectiOus discharges from every case
now ia your State could he collected
and destroyed until they all recover
or die, and proper attention could be
given to ventilation, open air exercise
and the nourishment of those in any
way predisposed to it, you need never
have another case unless it be an inn
ported one. You had q large death
rate from typhoid fever, and you
have thousands of cases of this dis
ease every year. This is moi only a
prcventable but the most typical OF
the filth diseases, for no one can have
II except by getting into their mouth
md stomach some of the discharges
oDm the bowels or kidneys of some
oke who had typhoid fever. This is
not = nice thing to think about, but it
so much worse to do it that nice pee
pie ought to think and plan how to
stop doing it. In cities it usually
gets into the mouth through infected
water, as in the recent epidemics at
Scranton, Butler andPlymouth, Penn
syivania, and Ithica, New York.
Until the results proved SO disastrous
as to force better methods, at an ag-
gregate cost of hundreds of millions,
cities OF the older civilizations dischar-
ged their sewerage into streams and
lakes which we're the only source of
water supply for their own and other
populations. and typhoid fever was an
annual scOurge. Instead of prOfitipg
by these disastrous experiences we
are rapidly converting our steams
and lakes into open sewers and pools,
regardless of the complex sanitary
and economic problems thus created
for our own generation and the teem-
ing millions to follow US. Bat ty-
phoid fever san and is carried in other
ways than by water: as in milk and
other foods. In small towns and
country districts it is usually carried
by the ordinary house fly, as it was
at Chicamauga and the other military
camps during the war with Spain.
You had last year q heavy sick and
death rate from diseases Of children.
caused by the s of dirty, adulterat-
ed or spoiled milk. We shudder with
horror even vet over the slaughter of
the ~innOcents by HerOd but he ONLY.
killed Q few OF the frst-bOrn males. !
and wa Q novice in the business COM /
pared with our modern cities, which
make no discrimination as to sex or
order of birth. Rochester and a few !
other cities have tried the experiment
and have found that it Is actually
cheaper to furnish pure. sterilized
milk and save the babies than Il Is to
bury them, and still the slaugter goes
on every hot season almost without
comment except from the weeping
mothers. You had many deaths and.
much sickness from diptheria and
scarlet fever. all distinctly prevent I.
a0ie, INC still more from pneumonia.
another germ disease which we ought
sOon % De able to greatly restrict or
Sntiteiy prevent. To say nothing of
sne cost OF caring for the sick who
and OF the suffering and dis
sress, according to political econom.
ISIS mis- represents q definite, calcul-
2 2 avoidable loss to your peo-
PIE each year of millions of doll rs.
2 = State or nation can have no
valuable asset than that repre-
sented 10 its healthy population.
Under q leadership of Gladstone
MD Disraelli in England, and others
g ike prominence of the continent Of
europe and under the pressure Of
sucn conditions rs must soon confront
4 was long ago recognized al
nxlomat1c, and crystallixed into Law
end governmental policies, THAI
.1e csFo OF the public health is 3 al
- arss quo most constant duties OF