Show diphtheria FL to bo d of all the ahat utah IN undoubtedly the several of our citie have lean tidied from time I time with tu small pox scourge nd many have fallen victim to it but it teems that adlph them when once it visits a family or a settlement it only commences ita work where the former would exhaust itself it come to stay and abating in its fury at till lurka around soon breaking out again with redoubled violence and fatality when yellow fever gradall pox and other like rail quarantine ii immediately resorted to and strenuous davock da vorK are made to keep the infected from the healthy diw different in many cages of diphtheria I in a recent number of an interesting periodical published in boston a writer in treating upon diphtheria says treat it like smallpox small pox for like anat disease it may be communicated from on person to another the poison may bastea on any por oua articles within ih sick the bed clothing window curtains writing paper books tc or it may k absorbed by water milk er other liquids even im distant part of house everything about the hour should be thoroughly bisin fectea aa much so a if the disease had ben small poz and no person should be admitted into the house until after the articles artic lei of clothing should be carefully dis infected by theme elTes the hair of a patient also ought to be gub betted to repeated eions or in severe cut off and burnt the writer cite a case which occurred lut gummer t st fibann vt A family of three children had been attacked had recovered and played about the streets for a fortnight afterwards then they vere sent on a visit to friend in a town in which was not a single case of diphtheria after their visit the diete broke out in all the four families that they had visited the supposition is fully warranted in this case that the vi ailing children carried the dig eaf either in their clothes 01 in hair hair now that has reached such in portions f our territory it behooves all to use the utmost caution in eting about those afflicted with the ji ease or after bing b ing exposed to a diphtheria patient in carrying ali infection to others it seems to be a rational conclusion to arrive it that just BO long a quarantine regu lation of soma kind are not enforced no long will the fell detroyer dw troyer go on with his deathly work welling the number of victims day by day month by month and year by year |