The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-09-30
Federal Health Facilities Are
inadequate to Deal with
the Plague.
oRGAp o,sGAsg 70 NOW RAGING
m VARIOUS pARTs OF EUROPE
DANCER FROM HEALTHY
AMgRIcANS.


Of Asiatic cholera from Russia. where
10000 cases are reported. into Ger
many and other countries Of Europe.
has caused the government to re-
double the precautions taken at the
port OF New York. and has again d.
rected attention TO the inAdeQuacy OF
our national facilities for combating
an assault Of cholera or plague.
The port doctors are able to exclude
any person showing symptoms Of
cholera, but the real danger ID from
healthy Americana. returning from
abroad. and from robust immigrants.
who easily pass the quarantine. but
who may. nevertheless, carry enough
cholera germs In their bodies to pol
lute the rivers Of whole state.
"Excretions during an epidemic or
among persons coming from an infect
ed region are dangerous" says Pro-
lessor Chantemesse. OF the French
Academy Of Medicine in a dispatch
regarding the outbreak in Europe.
these excretions contain specific mi
crobes In large quantities. They may
contaminate wells and springs. Whole
rivers may become contaminated in
this way. and when. by any means,
this polluted water finds itself In the
digestive tube, the cholera microbe
finds . new homo and multiplies."
What Reessvst Said.
The possibility Of an act by con.
sress 1t the next session to give bet
ter protection against an outbreak of
an epidemic In this country by stop
ping the pollution of interstate water
ways In which excretions are dumped
10 forsshadowed by the recent re-
marks Of Col. Roosevelt in speaking Of
putting sewage into the Great Lakes:
I'VE claim TO be . civilized people,
and civilized people ought to know
how TO dispose OF the sewage In some
U1her way than putting 1t into ths
nklng water. We need action BY
ID the State and the Nation to put Z
mplete stop to the pollution Of the
eat Lakes. action BY the State 70
~ our own boundary Is concerned.
d action BY the Nation. because
her states besides our own are inter-
ted.
DR.. Chas. 8. Braddock. formerly
lief medical inspector for the Royal
amsse Government ut Bangkok.
here he had extensive experience
yhting cholera, has said regarding
cholera menace:
when We can control the food and
pter supply and secure reasonable
nitary conditions. wonderful results
20 prevention are obtained"
ovbsnle Plague Feared.
But Dr.. 'Braddock further states:
In my opinion We need not fear
oleW 20 much - bubouic plague,
hce the prevention Of tho latter dis
10 10 far more difficult to attain"
According to Senator Owen, who In.
bduced into the senate the national
partment Of health bill. one of
hose functions shall be the suppress.
p OF bubonic plague and similar
tional menaces.
The most dangerous epidemic
own to the world has been the bu-
mic plague. germ disease capable
almost explosive epidemic.
AFTER m incubation Of from four
seven days with headache, vertigo
4 mental depression there comes
chill, raging fever. great prostra-
p. occasional vomiting Of bile and
od; the glands In the neck. under
arms. ut the elbows. In the groins,
Ter the knees, all over the body,
eome red and swollen, tender, and
remely painful. They turn dark,
Dome filled with pus. II not opened.
fst spontaneously. The disease 10
netimes attended with abscesses.
10 and carbuncles. About this time
agony Of life and the sting of
th are both overcome by a merci.
Inconsistencies. and the mass OF
man putrid flesh ceases to breathe
the heart 10 stilled.
This was the black death Of Lon.
killing about 10000 people. with
redible speed-a thousand dying q
At Marseilles $1,000 died: 200..
In Moscow.
lt 10 the most dreaded and danger.
Of all international epidemics. In
Bombay outbreak. Of 100000 cases
900 deaths occurred.
Rats Are Infected.
The bubonic plague 10 now among
e. rats and ground squirrels OF the
cific coast" Senator Owen further
etes. His bill. which will be report.
again at the next session. aims to
' Ing under one department. for econ.
hy and efficiency, the various health
encies OF the government
When the bubonic plague broke out
San Francisco In 1900. the city
bard Of health guaranteed the Chi.