| Show TYPHOID FEVER THIS is a sickness that prevails or less in american cities from time alm to time at present it to is said to be cepl pi demic in chicago in a recent issue bissu of the new york world it was stated that 69 cases were revor reported ted in one geelt wee in new york denver omaha and st louis papers also 8 speak peak J of atas it as existing in a rather alarming state in those cities several cases cam are reporter cl at present in this city the new york york world has the following editorial on typhoid fever typhoid is ia a disease of the beyers gi glands ands these glands lie along the intestinal tes tract and when attacked by the typhoid fever germ they become inflamed and ulcerated and if the disease is not checked perforation of the bowels and death ensue the disease is due solely to the presence of its specific germ in the sy system stera at a time when the system is not net in condition to resist its baleful action and mst it out the germ enters through the stomach and usually in drinking wetter wt ter but food exposed to an atmosphere where typhoid germs exists becomes impregnated and transmits the disease the time that elapses between the lodgment of the germs in the system and the appearance of the disease is extremely variable and usually long several weeks pass in almost all cues cases and several months in many before the disease appears the presence of I 1 typhoid y boid in a city therefore does not r reflect erect existing conditions but rather those to which the afflicted ones have been exposed weeks or months before the majority of typhoid cases in now new york every fall which is the season of this diseases disease ts prevalence are among persons who have passed the summer amolia in n the country and it is 1 well I 11 settled as a scientific fact that most of them are drawn fresh and cool from the country wells these wells are fed by underground streams coming no man knows whence they are extremely apt to draw some part of their supply from unwholesome places their waters wafers flow flowing f ug underground der ground are filtered to extreme limpidity but are not cleansed irom from disease germs by aeration those who drink from them make the matter worse by taking the water fresh drawn for the sake of its coolness the world goes on to say that not one of the sixty nine cam reported in new york can be traced to croton water that no trace or taint of fever germs has hae ever been found in that water it surmises that the excessive tearing up of streets may cause this disease germs thus thrown into the atmosphere may impregnate food at the butchers or water in coolers and the like it counsels rapidity in street improvements and the refraining from drinking well wolter water even in the country |
