The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-06-27

buruman jail, where, prior 10 ana
after the attack, there was exceptional
freedom from bowel complaints. The
water supply was above suspicion and
was the same for all the inmates.
who numbered 1870, and were divided
into two groups, the ordinary prison.
ers and the "infirm gang" The lat.
ter worked, slept and associated gen.
orally with the former, but their food
was cooked especially and they were
fed in separate place in the hos.
pital compound. The ordinary prison.
ers-and 1t was among these that all |
the cases occurred-han their food |
prepared and we're fed at the extreme
opposite corner, diagonally from the
hospital. Over the wall at their cor.
ner were deserted compound, and
a row of dirty huts where cholera had
existed during the preceding year. At
the time the city was more than u.s.
ually infected with swarms of flies,
and just before the outbreak a storm
had occurred. during which strong
east northeast wind blew across the
Jail yard from the locality mentioned,
A NJ yhr
those who we're known to have had
their evening meal in the corner dur
ing the storm, and 1t was believed that
swarms Of flies were blown from the
huts, and on reaching the trees and
corner Of the high Jail wall, obtained
shelter from the storm and settled
upon the food exposed on the plates
before the gang. All had been in Jail
more than a month. and conditions
were identical for each.
The ability Of flies to infect food
with cholera germs was shown by VI.
l
felman in 1872. He swallowed chol.
era infected fly to drink from glass
OF sterile milk and then shook the
latter and kept it at 70 degrees Fab.
renheit for sixteen hours, at the end
. Of which time each drop contained
|, about 100 organisms.
: The presence Of plague bacilli in the
intestines of flies has been demon
strated repeatedly within recent
years, first by Yersin in 1894, who
Z noticing the large number of deat
e flies where the victims were being
a autopsied, crushed one fly and inocu
t lated it into a guinea pig, which dice
= of the disease in forty-eight hours
s Further investigation showed the ba
I, cili present in the intestines of tn,
g. living fly and led to the conclusion
e that they actually multiplied therein
II INITIAL proved that flies may carry thu
d disease and that they themselves di,
8 OF 1t. 1t il interesting to note tina
s early writer's were suspicious of tn,
l. housefly and SO long ago as 1877
1. Venetian, Murcurialis wrote DE Pes
IT tilenua') that flies go to infecte,
D. houses, alight upon the sick an
d then convey the contagion to othe
n houses and deposit 1t on bread an
e other food" ("Practical Hygiene" b
,r Harrington.)
II Yaws, a contagious disease Of tn
n skin, occurring in hot regions an
r marked by raspberry-like exrcesence
S. on the face, hands and feet, has bee
or thought to be made epidemic .throug
ly the agency OF the housefly. A, Rober
es son Jour. Trop, Med. and Hyg.
1908 14) has done considerable wor
on the subject and believes the hous
IN fly capable of carrying the virus {
ne yaws. Since the disease Is probabl
,y caused by a protozoan organism,
of is quite likely that some form of bi
70 ing insect or fly is the chief carrie
aa the housefly accidentally cOnyeyiI
On the disease from a patient TO the vi
to tim who may have some open woun
be Tetanus or lockjaw, that dread di
m. ease OF the south. where the war;
I'd. moist climate is most favorable to Il
he life OF germs and SO much in eviden
re after gunpowder wounds resultiI
- from tho oaiahration of Indenendpn