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Show Dr. R, B. Preble, president of the Chicago Chi-cago Medical Society, evidently despairs de-spairs of tho suggestion that, the city manufacture the anti-toxin for diphtheria, diph-theria, and he now wants the Federal Government to manufacture It. Tho heartless monopolists who hove control of the making and of the market are evidently determined to fnttcn their pocRct-books even at the cost of children's chil-dren's lives. The suggestion of Dr. Preble Is a good ono; the Government has for years been manufacturing and distributing various lymphs, antl-toxins and other preparations, and to supply sup-ply this diphtheria anti-toxin would be no great stretch of 'governmental activities ac-tivities or powers. It would be a mighty relief to afflicted people, if the Government would do this,, and .would be a Just defeat of a greedy,' merelle&a combination. That Is a frightful epidemic of typholfl which Is. prevailing In Leadville. Five hundred cases In actual treatment there now Ib an enormous number for a town of that size -(Leadvllle had a population of but 12,445 by the United States census of. 1900). The so-called epidemic of this disease in this city, last fall, sinks into utter insignificance! for what Is a hundred or so cases In a city of sixty thousand people, compared with five hundred cascs-.Jn a city 6 ooly twelve thousand people?' Thcro must bo aomethlqc radically wrong "wiib Leadvillc's water supply, as contamination contamina-tion of water used Is held to be the reason for the prevalence of this disease. dis-ease. But with us, at the very time of the prevalence of typhoid, the water Aas tested from time to time and pronounced pro-nounced chomlcally pure. It may be, then, that something else than Impure water Is the cause of the typhoid epidemic epi-demic In Leadvllle. |