Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-27

Sold In Boise by w. s. Whithead
Drug Co.
paftment. and that II should take ac-
tive steps to insure clean cars, good
ventilation. pure water, and the like.
The Pullman company already has
such department, and has been en-
gagged in a long study Of car ventila-
ton. Those who have to sleep on the
road a great deal are ready to believe
that much more remains to be done
by the department OF sanitation Of the
sleeping car company than has yet
been accomplished.
Secretary Crumbine of the Kansas
board Of health, told the congress
something about the sanitary prob
lens involved in feeding the travelling
public. To more than two thirds Of
the people who travel the dining car
is absolutely unknown. The high
prices there and the tipping nuisance
keep them out so that the problem
with them is one Of going without any
thing to eat. carrying It along or TAX
Ing chance on way station lunch
counter or sandwich men. The Penn
sylvania railroad, in order to popu-
larize It's service. is expecting to es-
tablish some lunch cars, where the
people who have to count their dimes
can get something to eat. While the
character Of the railroad feeding busi-
ness is such that the best cooks In the
world are not to be secured there. the
tendency among all roads which OPP
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Pullman company as we'll, Is to require
higher standard Of cleanliness in the
handling and preparation of the food
Of the dining car patron.
Lake and River Traffic.
One Of the ways through which in
fictitious diseases are spread is
through an improperly guarded lake
and river traffic. 1t has been DEM
onstrated that the steamboats, which
ply on many small bodies Of water
and on many rivers dispense enough
infection to cause many epidemics.
For instance, many cities bordering on
the Great Lakes have had epidemics
of typhoid fever that could not be
traced until attention was turned to
the water supply coming from the
, lakes. Then 1t was found that the
lake water was polluted with typhoid
germs, and 1t was later shown that
the wastes from steamboat traffic in
the vicinity Of water intakes were the
secret Of the trouble. The same has
been found true in the case of water
supplies coming from navigable rivers,
and many Chronological experts have
given much attention to the preven-
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way.
The ocean going steamship as pur-
veyor Of infectious diseases has long
been one Of the most serious prob
lens of transportation in its relation
to health. Aboard ocean steamships
bubonic plague has ridden all around
the world and has knocked at the
gates OF thousand ports where but
for those vessels It would never have
come Does cholera break out in
Italy, It rides over the world on the
wings Of maritime commerce and lands
In every port where quarantine restric
lions are lax. Fortunately there Is
one place where the American people
are careful about disease. We may
be indicted for allowing consumptives
to 60 about at will careless Of the
spread Of wasting death, we may be
censured for permitting death rate
from intestinal disorders that the more
advanced countries of Europe would
blush to own, but we are careful that
our diseases shall come from native
rather than from alien sources. No
country In the world has a better
quarantine service than the United
States. and thanks to the splendid ef-
ficiency Of the public health service.
no people are freer from invading dis
eases than the American people.
The problems Of quarantine grow
less serious as the causes OF diseases
come to be better understood. Yellow
fever once completely baffled the
quarantine guard. They knew MOTH
ing Of the work played by the mos
quito in causing the disease. and 1t
flourished aboard an infected ship
month after month with no one to
suspect II. Since the mystery OF yell
low fever has been mastered, quaran-
tine against 1t IL very easy. Likewise.
before II was known that the rat car
ried the flea that carried the germ
that caused the disease that Is called
bubonic plague, the ship rat travelled
around the world trading fleas with,
| wharf rats and they In turn carrying
them to human beings. Since 1t has
come to be known that mo rats. no
fleas and no fleas, no plague" the
fight IL infinitely simplified
Tomorrow--Hygiene and Sanitation.
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