New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-08
Scourge Doubles in Quarter
of a Carbohydrates
Almost Stamped Out.
ANTI-TYPHOID SERUM
ANNOUNCED IN BERLIN
London Specialist Believes Ty'
phoid Will Become as Rare as
Smallpox and TyphuS.

Paris. March 7.-Tuberculosis has
little more than doubled in France since
1857. according to figures supplied TO lie
Tennis" by Henri Schmidt. the Repuoh-
can-Radcal Deputy. who Is one OF the
leading figures in the temperance move
mont I'm France. Deputy Schmidt also
traces statistically the effects of drunken
ness on births and upon the lives OF chii-
dren whose parents have been Incorporate
Infantile mortality in Normandy, where
women drink excessively, Is just douoie
what il Is in the temperate Department OIL
the Gers where the people are SOBER al
though much wine and brandy are pro-
duced in that district. Infantile mortality
* at its highest in those districts where
absinthe drinking is prevalent.
Paris has not had a single case OF
rabies in ten years. according TO the mu-
nicipal councillor who has just mace
report on the sanitary inspection OF lhe
CITY. This has been due to the activity OF
dog catchers and TO the efficacy OF the
Pasteur treatment. Stray dogs captured
number from 5000 to $4,000 every year
Berlin. Feb 1s-A new anti-typhoid
ser,m IS announced by Staff Surgeon
Fornes. of the German army. lie mas
heen experimenting with view TO lessen
ING the side effects Of incubation. His
new serum is comparatively free from
albumen. and he believes it decided inn
provement over existing serums.
Notwithstanding his discovery and tne
success attending compulsory nocuiatoh
NtA
NJ soldiers in the United States the Ger
man military authorite. have decloeo
NOT 10 adopt rule for compulsory lnocu-
lation Of German soldiers in time OF peace
comparison with United States.
The report from Washington showing
only two cases OF typhoid fever among
30 non officers and men, compared with
"5o 10 $50 cases annually before COM
,uleoyv incubation was introduced, has
attracted the attention OF Surgeon Cen
eral Won Schierning, chief Of the army
sanitary corps, and his suborolnates'
They are quite ready TO be convinced that
the serum may be an almost certain
method OF immunization against typnoio'
bu, rrefer 10 keep the treatment IN re-
scrve and use It only in case of a serious
outbreak OF typhoid in war time
Lieutenant Colonel Hoffman, chief stan
.urgoon. representing General Won
schierning. explains that the rate ior
frnboid in the German army is already
worry low. only o. 10 oS cases per lVV'VD
soldiers occurring annually. Compulsory
inoculation in time Of peace would meet
with considerable objection and is scarcely
necessary.
The possibility Of an outbreak o. Npholu
during a campaign, such as characterized
the American mobilization for the span
tsh-American War, the British campaign
against the Beers and the Russian cam
na;gr IN Manchurla, is. however, foreseeh'
end the sanitary corps has made all prep
.ratjons to have a supply OF anti-typhold
| sarur, for use in an emergency ana 10 III
oculate generally If the troops are exposed
10 infection. From the report or the Ter
man attache az Washington II IL known
,ha+ inocu,atlon carried out under similar
circumstances among the troops along inc
Noxican frontier two years ago rendered
= laroa proportion Of the men UNIT for
sor,,;co for several days. Placing part OF
on army hors de combat in this way
| would DO n dangerous eNPNi''
realized, in the face OF the cneHy' put inc
German experts apparently count upo'
luck IN staving off an outbreak until at,er
the decisive battles have been fought'
| Lesson Derived from War.
Germany's experience in the South ATT
| can campaign Of 1904 shows the impossi-
b,1itv OF safeguarding against typhoid
! endemic under field conditions, even
pben ALL possible hygienic precautions are
| taken Warned by the outbreaks In the
| cnanish- American, Boer and Russo-Jap-
/ aneae wars. the medical authorities theh
drew I'D a rrost elaborate system OF reSu-
| Iations 10 cope with this danger before
the expediuon set out for South Africa
,rvnboid nevertheless broke out, and the
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