The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-01-23

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most prevalent and deadly of all d.
seases. Two hundred thousand peo-
pie are killed every year in the Uni
ted States by this disease, and it costs
the United States three hundred ana
thirty million dollars. There are
twelve thousand cases in Mississippi.
This disease is due to germ which
gets into the body principally by being
breathed into the lungs, the germs be-
ing so small that they cling to par,
ticles Of dust, and when we breathe
the dust we get the germ also. They
may get into the body also by being
in the food or drink and may enter
through the broken skin. The germs
come from the sputum coughed
up by those who have the
disease, from the flesh of in
fected cattle and milk of cows
sick of the disease. 1t is prevented
by the proper disposal or destruction
of the sputum of those sick of the
disease, the inspection of cattle and
diaries, cleanliness in the use of food
and drink, and in the care of the
mouth and teeth, and an early dag
nosis so as to carry out a successful
treatment and for the protection of
others. A few days ago l had occa-
sion to examine the sputum of a con-
sumptive and found it to be literally
teeming with the germs He was 60
ing about town and in the public
buildings constantly splitting and ev-
cry time he did so millions of the
germs were being thrown upon the
streets or upon the floor to become
dried out and rise with the dust for
our citizens to breathe Hattiesburg's
share of the twelve thousand con.
sumptives in Mississippi is about
ninety cases. Imagine ninety peo-
pie doing as this one. Don't you see
that it is not always possible to avoid
the germs?
Typhoid Fever.
Typhoid fever is another disease
which is the cause of untold suffering
and distress and is costing the state
thousands of dollars. 1t is a disease
which can be prevented yet Missisip-
pts dtath rate from this disease is
third highest of all the states in the
union. The germ causing the disease
gets into the body only with the food
or drink The only source of the
germ, the only place it comes from is
from the excreta of some one who
has or has lately had the disease. The
spread of the disease is prevented by
taking the proper care of the patients
suffering with the disease, cleanliness
with food and drink, screening against
flies and by vaccination. A fly can
carry several hundred germs upon
one foot. Suppose such a fly should
light upon piece of food we are
about to eat or wash his feet in a
glass of which we are about to drink.
Tao TTONCU 0uCCG6STut.
During the Spanish American war
there were 10000 cases of typhoid
fever among the army corps, none of
the soldiers having been vaccinated.
During the recent mobilization of the
army corps In Texas there was
but one case of typhoid fever and that
one was the case of a teamster who
had not been vaccinated. All the 9th
ers had been vaccinated.
Smallpox has lost its old-time fright.
full death rate and panic producing
qualities, and is rapidly becoming a
thing of the past, in spite of the anti
vaccine supporters, the editor of Life
magazines and other such blockhead.
ed idiots. Fifty million died of this
disease in Europe during the 18th
century. Now it is scarcely known.
The germ which causes the disease
has not been discovered, but is known
to come from only those who have
the disease.
The disease is prevented in only
one way and that is by vaccination.
In the Philippine Islands there were
5000 deaths from smallpox every
year. Since vaccination has been in
troduced in the Islands there has not
been a death from this disease. Scores
of such instances could be cited, but
it is not necessary.
Malarial Fever.
Malarial fever is a disease which
may be simple or severe. 1t is cost
ing our state many thousands of dol
lars Scarcely a soul in our state
fails to have the disease sometime
during a life time 1t is easily pre-
vented by preventing the bite of the
Anopheles mosquito which has bitten
some patient suffering with the di-
sease. The mosquito carries the