| Show the pneumonia season if new york had one tenth as many deaths from any disease that comes under the head of pestilence and typhoid fever seems to belong there as it does from pneumonia it would be wildly panic stricken and every Goth amito who could get away would lie be on oa the run this wholesale destroyer is busy all the year round but chiefly of course alter after the cold weather begins at the present time it is doing its fatal work all over the city trill and adding to the iho death list every day the doctors are very little more successful in treating it tb than air they were twenty or thirty years ago when it was called either inal inflammation am illation of the lungs or congestion of the lungs it probably is not tiny any more prevalent than it was then but we hear bear a great deal more about it anyway the frequent mention ot of it in the death notices would seem to indicate that neaily halt balf the deaths in the winter are arc caused by it neither young nor old feeble or strong lias has any immunity from it men apparently in the most robust health are stricken down by it almost instantly st and death frequently ensues within forty eight hours if the aged are attacked by it a fatal result is almost absolutely certain some of the doctors are now dow talking about a microbe that they suppose to be at the I 1 1 bottom of it but thit does not seem eem to help them in treating it microbe or no microbe it pursues its fatal course sparing neither rich nor poor new york cor detroit free press |
