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Show CHOLERA IN BERLIN. Cholera has broken out in Berlin and of seven eases reported six proved fatal. fa-tal. We hope Europe will be spared a general' visitation of this dreaded Asiatic scourge, and ive trust the Germans Ger-mans will be successful in stamping it out before it becomes epidemic. Its appearance in Berlin at this time is not surprising, for its victims are those whose intestines are weakened by previous pre-vious illness, bad feeding, exhaustion or excess in eating or drinking. Bad food has been the rule in Germany for a long time, and there has been much sickness. So, once the disease gets started there is no telling where it will stop. Most of the neutral countries would be fruitful fields for the scourge, while the great armies could not hope to escape. The 'danger might not be EO great in the American camps on ac count of the advanced methods of sanitation sani-tation employed by our medical experts of both the army and navy, and because our men are well fed and clothed. It was a German scientist, Koch, who discovered the deadly cholera parasite in 1SS3, and the Germans have heretofore hereto-fore been successful in their efforts to . combat the disease. But a great war has been raging for more than four years and Germany is now shut in. Shortage of nourishing food, bad water and pestilential air may be too much for the scientists and the worst results re-sults may follow. In past wars pestilence pesti-lence has always caused more deaths than bullets, and the present danger is very great. Every effort must be made to protect our soldiers in the field. Likewise, Like-wise, the most extraordinary precautions precau-tions should be taken to prevent the cholera from reaching the shores of the United States, even though we have been successful in recent years in stop-ing stop-ing it whenever it has appeared. Just at the present time the disease commonly known as the Spanish influ-?ii7.a influ-?ii7.a is spreading to the army camps all over the country, and, as it is followed fol-lowed by pneumonia in thousands Of uses, there have been hundreds of fatalities. fa-talities. The number of new cases of influenza reported on Monday was 11,-024, 11,-024, the total to date being 72,327. More than 2iJ0 extra nurses have been rushed to the camps and the public health service is conducting a vigorous campaign. Physicians in all sections are volunteering their services, and it is hoped this imported disease will soon be under control, for there is some apprehension ap-prehension regarding possible results. |