Show THE TH E CHOLERA OUTLOOK Although assurances are ale given gien that there te Is ittle likelihood of an Invasion of cholera as a result of ot the outbreak in lii Germany German it Is l n to make malte assur doubly sure lure 1 taking every eer precaution In these days da s of f advanced sanitary science It is not at atall a aall atall all probable that there thele could be any such Cueli epidemics as ts visited this country at Intervals during the last century Quarantine methods are more effective und and the public generally knows better how ho to take care of ot itself By B wa way a of further comfort it may ma be said that the mortality percentage in cholera as reported from Germany Gennan during the tho present outbreak is only about seventeen per cent This seems very et high when compared with some other epidemic diseases but in the theold old days das it was vas not unusual for the death roll to number fifty and even een evenSON SON out of or each hundred vie vic victims Ic tims of ot the disease If U proper precautions precautions are observed we are told that cholera can be wiped out The Tue disease has its origin usually in countries where the people pay no attention whatever to sanitary regula regulations regulations Ions where here they the are crowded together and where they tho suffer surrel always from mal malnutrition malnutrition nutrition The worst form of ot cholera called Asiatic cholera because its home is in Iii India justifies the con conclusion elusion that where people are well fed ted where they th are clean and comfortably housed sed the th danger of an outbreak Is re reduced to a minimum Every ery severe out outbreak outbreak I break of at cholera since the disease first i became known has according to an authority bean been traced tl ced directly to India The bacillus of cholera was as discovered by Koch in lit Egypt in 1888 1883 following his discovery dIs oer of ot the cause of at tuberculosis It is described as a organism generally resenting presenting a slight curve curc whence the name by which it is la i often known comma bacillus but under certain cir circumstances circumstances it is seen as long spiral threads and Is therefore strictly strIct speaking a The Tha Thelast last appearance of cholera in th 3 country was as In 1866 That was as not as serious however hO as pre pra preceding ceding ones Many any deaths were caused d db by b It In 1St lS 1849 and 1854 1864 Cholera Is Jg not lot carried by the air all and wind and is communicable only by b direct contact |