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Show Epidemics Follow War. (Pno of the most eminent English pity-1 slclun, has recently declared, In u pub-' Ita address, that "epidemic d If ease, both among human being nnd animals has always followed In tho wuko of war." Ho added that pestilence may noubo a necessary sequonco of war, but that the latter brings about favor-abio favor-abio conditions for the spread of r.ny lalant epidemic. Tito serious ravages of fever in tliu army en in pa of our soldiers In this country; In Cuba, In Porto Hlco, Manila and Hawaii, all furnish tho best proof of the trui li or die Loudon physician's physi-cian's assertion. "Vury sensibly, tho war department has decided not to send our troops to occupy any of tjie camps that have been ubaudoucd lu Cuba by tho Spanish soldiers. New camps arc to he established under tho bust possible possi-ble sunluiry regulations. Sanitation has every thlog(to do with the matter. For 2000 years tho world has boon dealing with what has bucn called In Oriental countries "tho plague," but since tho seventeenth century, cloarly na the ro-sult ro-sult or hotter sanltnry methods, tho plngtlo has been practically driven from tho British islands and from every other civilized cooler, anil has been Hleadlly reecdlng toward Its original haunts in Euypt and Turkey, where the need or minllutlnn has li.irdly over boon recogiii!?ed.--Leslles Weekly |