Omaha daily bee., 1922-04-28
"PARM LIFE is so HEALTHY
cos,rishti 1889

From time 20 time during 1891
there were stories about the prsya
lenes Of typhoid fever.
During the very hot June sns
July the stories were that the dis
ease had materially Increased and
,hst the record for the year would
be bad one.
Now the annual report of the
Journal OF the American Medical as.
soeialion Is available. and I, was
found that there was very little
basis for the predictions. We did
lose a little ground in the fight
asainst typhoid fever IN 1870. bu,
the loss was trivial.
The typhoid rate OF 50 cities in
which live $4,000 people was I per
100000. as compared with 81 the
ye@r before. r.
The total number Of deaths In
these cities was has, being 81 more
than In the preceding year. Thirty
years ago Chicago was having more
deaths from typhoid per year than
occurred last year in the 80 large
cities OF the country.
The place OF honor again goes to
Chicago. with its rate OF IL.
Chicago has a lower rate Than any
other city. large or small.
Chicago. Minneapolis. Oakland.
Des Moines and Milwaukee are on
the honor roll with rates that are
lower that 2. New York and 10
other cities have rates that are lower
than .. though In each instance In
excess Of 9.
Any city with a typhoid rate OF
less than 3 has right 10 be com.
pared with the heaithicst and best
governed European cities. know
Of no city ON the continent holding
record equal TO that made by chl-
cago during the last three years.
II is difficult 10 keep down the
typhoid rates In the southern cities.
with their semi-tropical conditions
and their large coiored populations.
Norfolk. Va. with rate OF 4.i. and
Baltimore. Louisville. Richmond.
Memphis and New Orleans. with
rates less than 10. all have reason
to be proud OF their achievements.
The highest rate OF all-Nash-
vile. 20.4-is lower than the aver
age rate Of the best about 20 years
ago.
The great typhoid problem OF the
present day is that Of the groups OF
cities not included In the Journal
lists. refer to the cities large
enough to have water works. but
with less than 100000 Inhabitants.
They have not been able to keep up
with the procession.
The people In the villages and
rural districts. who drank water
from private wells and who have no
sewer systems. are suffering from
typhoid fever far more than the city
people. The figures are not avail
able. but probably they would show
that this group is about midway be-
tween the bad conditions Of the
small city and the good systems Of
the large.
In an editorial the Journal says:
ut may be fairly estimated that |
not more than two-thirds or pos
sibly one-half Of the typhoid deaths
occurring in the larger cities are due |
% infection occurring in the cities
Taking ones vacation in the coun-
Try and visiting the folks Ion the
,arm is somewhat hazardous. The
,on1ic papers make US believe that
he rube runs risks when he comes
% town. The city rube in the coun-
ry is In the greater danger.
The next 10 years ought to see
in the smaller cities,
and rural districts sufficient
o make their people as safe from
Uphold as the citizens Of the, large
,ity now are. -.
The Climate Cure Chase.
N. r. writes: ii. A young man
uffering from tuberculosis was ad-
Used that a change Of climate was
lot necessary for his recovery. He