Show AN indication INDICA OF civilization V we vere forcibly struck the 0 other th er day with the remark of a prominent physician PhYsic lan ft A ho stated that the standard of 0 civilization ol of a community Is determined by the presence or absence of 0 typhoid fever the remark was a borrowed one uttered by one ot of the great medical men of the age and its import instantly opened a wide vide field of thought of course we e must all aamir that typhoid is a preventable disease and that in about ninety nine cases out of every every hundred it is contracted from unsanitary conditions and it lives in that being true the potency 0 f she be statement that our civilization can re be judged by the presence or absence of f the disease in the community is a all the more apparent endowed with the highest intelli t nce vouchsafed to any living crea ic ae man is in some things way be ow the lower animals in the simple matter ot of keeping clean about his hie per aion oa and general surroundings he can lem learn many lessons from the dumb animals whose tendencies for scrupulous cleanliness is well known and let v ithal withal man pretends to rule over and 03 a actually placed in that position by I 1 the be creator all other living creatures there are and haie hae been all during diring ai year cases of 0 typhoid fever in ill Irig bam though comparatively few the cause for the presence of the ill disease should be gone into carefully by Y the families of those afflicted and an if it is because of any unsanitary conditions dit dif ions lOns they ought for the sake of the balance of the family to be remedied at once it if the unsanitary condition exist on the premises of a neighbor that neighbor should be forced to clean up and in fact it wont hurt qs i s all to clean up a bit both inside and out and it if that Is done the community we wont need to havo typhoid and our civilization will be raised to a higher standard |