Show MALADY AND MISERY RISE ILY still stalking abroad su in the eastern part of kentucky ay western asad press to the 11 LID louis louisville VILLE ky dec 3 the clouner journals 11 11 correspondent investigating the in eastern kentucky sends the following fr from 0 11 mount I 1 lea aut to the tile f fur ur ther I 1 travel into infected country llie the more horrible becomes t lit lie situation t anil anti the tile more I 1 wonder that the entire population or at beatt aci t that portion of it who ho have been at linked by the prevailing epidell W have not been swept into the lite world orld beyond I 1 am able to write cleat braih 1 only art after r conversations convert aliona with nien men from frum all parts of the tile county who ho are here today to day dely from dit dih tames rankins all the way ay from flye aveto to forty miles to lecure supplies and to have er done the 1 he water mills in mis thia conn coun ty as in most of the tile mountain cou conn tries tri eBare are HS useless less because of themar city of water and anti the steam mill here is is patronized by families living far and near froni from all these sources of information ri nation I 1 am able to make an all mate which be feied sw as nearly correct as any that could be made without a personal visit isit to every aliouse louse in the tile county there have havi been in harlan county since the latter part of august over two hundred undred li deaths 1 1 I met and talked with ur dr blair of this this thid morning he lie is of th the 0 opinion that the recent rains and frosts have had a cu dency tu to abate the tile epidemic the of aich he lie thinks is governed by the tile temperature pera ture if th the weather be becomes coule ab atit uniform night and day lay the disease flis ease decreases but cold nights and warm warin das days are inclined to vivo t ineita it a new nev tin impetus petus As to alie di disease ease being contagious sious I 1 find great diversity of opinion but have arrived at the con clu clurion ion that it is only so when the tile discharge disc harue from tho the bowels bow els and urinary r omand ori am is Is a allowed to stan stand d and 1111 if the ie room with its baleful odors and when people are careless about abo it clean lineth and ventilation in ili this con caul cl luteijn ul aery physician pliS with ith whom I 1 have I 1 tailed all evey supports me tile and it is doubtless cornet correct I 1 have now been at the tile county seats of the three aoun ties in in which alix h the infection lias has a foothold knox belland bell and barlau and in thebe these which are but on the outskirts skirts bf of the tile districts in in which aich it lias has been most fatal sum up tip a total of deaths since the latter tart vart of august from flux alone and fully the tile same number irom other ills mostly resulting from the iise use of or mill mineral er a poisoned oi water if I 1 include the da deaths I 1 reported to me by rov mr childers in both menifee 2 wolf etc it m would no doubt run the list up tip tol to 1200 in a day or awu more I 1 will be in ili letcher county and anti wise witie county va and after my lily trip through them I 1 will no 0 doubt be able to pretty dearly learly estimate the number num berof of vie vic tinis in in the entire territory which the scourge covers from reports from letl jetther Let ther er here it is la evident tha aa sr 0 of luve have run into or and that the deaths have lave been about live out of often ten |