The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-19
Sam, Guardian Over His PEOPLES HEALTH

and monkeys have been yaccinated
with this and thus made immune. Id
may be that this vaccination VIII aome
day be extended to children.
Infan.ile paralysis is found 10 come
from germ but this germ Is SO small
mat II VIII go through @ stone Hlter.
The scientists have macerated ths
spinal cord OF a monkey having tho
disease and have PASSED the water
containing this through such a fror
a drop OF the water when CANA from
the inter- was then injected into an
other monkey. and it got infanttle
paralysis.
II is ais found that the secretIons
from the noses of the infected mon
Keys are infectious, and IL Is believed
| an the secret!ons of the nose and
mouth art likewise So This Indicates
mat the disease may be transmitted
| rom one person to another by direct
contact and that it is contagious.
Pcilngra Comes From Italy.
->Ho'her terrible disease which Is
causing much excitement In certain
| sections of the United States Just now
- petiusfa. rms in the words of
| Seon-Gencral Wyman. is "a yerita-
] PIE scourge in certain parts of E,1-
rope 1t is found In Florence. Italy.
and Roumania and II occurs also in
spain and Upper Egypt. In certain
parts OF Italy as many as so per cent.
OF the people nave the disease, and IL
per cent. OF these are mentally al
| fccted.
feiiasra has only recently come to
America. 1t first broke out In ths
southern States, but it is now found
AS far North as Philadelphia. 1t Is
| estimated that we have something like
-"'ooo cases OF 1t. once caught 1t lasts
n
OUT iherc arc instances in Italy where
| people have been afflicted with It as
| iohs as twenty-five years. Some sun
| pose IL to come from poison, which
aHects the nervous system. 1t fro
| luentiy causes insanity. and in It's var
ious stages brings diarrhoea, n weak
| chlhS or the muscles, headache in
soinnia. jerking of the knees and par
tai paralysis. 1t affects the skin. the
stomach aud the whole physical or
sanization. In Alabama in 1907. there
WAS an epidemic OF it at the Mount
vernon Hospital for colorcd Insane. in
which there were cighty-cight case.
anil iifty-seven deaths
NO one yet knows just what cause,
peHaSra. 1t has been thought to
come from the eating OF cornmeaJ
made from improperly cured corn, but
| this is doubtful. DR.. Anderson tells
me they have traced back many cascs
| 'Ao nv part Oh lnGlr diet.
| Moreover tho scientists of the nv
Gientc laboratory nave fed rabbits.
| nice guinea pagS and other animals
upon the diet said to cause tho dis
ease and that without any effect what
soeNer Or G, ii. Lavinder, who has
ii.eS gated the subject in connection
win inc laboratory. does not think It
can come from maize, and so far its
origin is practically unknown
Typhoid Mary md Mrs. y.
some OF the most interesting work
OF Uncle SANS hygienic laboratory has
related to typhoid fever. Tho corps
OF doctors here are ready to respond
to any call from u typhoid epidemio
provided the State or city where this
typhoid is makes the call AT such
times they go to tho site OF the epide-
mic and investigate its origin Dr.
Anderson tells me that typhoid can only
come from the typhoid bacillus. an6
without this is present it cannot en-
list One might eat bad fish or bad
meat which did rot contain this
bacillus. and in such eases he Quiz
not have typhoid fever. However, this
Ntue beins exists In most forms OF
sewage, 1t multiplies at an enormous
rate, and 1t goes forth on it's career OF
destruction like an army with hammers
1t is not true that IT is common ir
oysters, although 1T sometimes comes
:, from ouch shellfsh and laid In brackish
ish water 10 make them swell UP and
look bigger
The great danger of infection from
typhoid fever lies entirely in that
which comes from tho patient when he
Is In certain stages of the disease. and
as rule this danger disappears az
| soon as the man RECEIVERS. 1t has been
II found, however. that there are GER
tain human beings who arc bacillus
carriers. They are loaded with ty-
phoid and other diseases: but the dis
ease has no effect upon them and they
keep in health. BY disease mean that
they have in them multitudes of tho
bacilii which cause the disease Ono
case of this kind was that of a cook
known as Typhoid Mary" She went
from place TO place and wherever sho
worked the people got the typhoid few
or. There were several dozen of such
cases. all caused by this ealthy Mary
Similar instances have been dscov-
cred by the Germans. and il is now
f, found that there arc certain people
who are carrying about tho cholera
bacillus in the Same way. For this
reason all the immigrants who are now
coming from the Mediterranean ara
carefully examined. even to the nah.
Ing OF meteorological analysis A
number OF cholera carriers have been
already discovered and sent back to
! Europe.
one OF tho German doctors speaks of
! a female typhoid carrier VINO had been
distributing this disease for forty
years, and another, the manager OF an
estate. who had been giving 1t out for
ten years. During this time sixteen
cases OF typhoid had occurred on that
! estate. In the German statistics it is
found that in about 100 female carriers
200 were housekeepers and iitty-siN
domestic servants. one was connected