| Show safeguards safeguard against cholera Cho lerk the practical question which concerns conc enis us in this country is ia the danger to which we are exposed this is not very great in the first place the fact of the existence of the disease is ia known and in buch auch matters to be forewarned is ia emphatically to bo be forearmed Sei second cond the period of incubation of cholera is very short being from a few hours to three days consequently should any person infected board one of the ships comin coming g here the disease would manifest itself before the arrival of the vessel the advantage of this is obvious no vessel could arrive here with cholera on board without the quarantine phy physicians icia finding or hearing of cases the outbreak t of ta typhus which mccurr occurred ed in this city I 1 some gome months ago was produced by people who owing to the long incubation of typhus passed quarantine while apparently well of course the germs gerins might come here in rags but the chances that rags have of passing without are extraordinarily tra ordinarily small nowadays As water and food are the carriers of the germs it follows that these must be carefully watched should the disease find a lodgment here it is ia most fortunate that the cholera bacillus can neither stand heat nor cold A few days of sharp frost will stamp an epidemic of the disease out food must bo be eaten while hot and fresh from the fire and water in cholera times mint be boiled carua edson M D in north V th american |
