Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-06-18 | Page 4 | Death-Borne Disease

DEATH BORNE DISEASE In the discussion at the recent congress congress congress con con- gress of burgeons in Der Berlin ll on the first ald to the wounded on the battlefield it was brought out by Bruns Bert Bertelsmann Bertelsmann Bertels Bertels- ls- ls mann and ana others that the danger in modern warfare is not so much from primary primary- infection by the small caliber projectile of rapid fire rifles as s from Cram secondary infection by contamination of the wound from th the clothing or the dust of the battlefield The effort of af the field surgeon is therefore more to exclude septic and tetanus germs than to disinfect the wound But to come nearer home the danger canger of dust Is emphasized emphasized emphasized em em- by the report that New York City has over ims-over over street lr t sweepers en the sick Ick list with diseases Es due die to the Inhalation in inhalation inhalation in- in halation of infectious dust A number of of affections are so commonly conveyed con- con in dust as to merit he the designation designation deig tion of dust diseases s. Of these cere- cere meningitis is of frequent occurrence oc cc- Occurrence Oc currence in cities during the spring pring months American Medicine