TYPHOID.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 40, 16 February 1889, Page 3

TYPHOID.

While the^whole community ia deeply in. terested invfcho alarming spread of this fatal disease, ifc islftmazing to contemplate tho fearful amount of indifference exhibited

with regard to i'te'dangers. Whether ib is communicated to |>be human frame by " micrdbus," "baciltitf' or more simply speaking by '.'i/erww,' .^.seems agreed that improved sanitation is tlte main remedy for preventing its propagation?* This indeed has been clearly proved foy the results obtained in England since attention has been given to strict sanitary law's? and it behoves every householder, or occupier of a dwelling, in these colonies, to keep this fact in view, and act accordingly, with respect to his own premises and its surroundings. So long, however, as individuals have no control over their neighbours' proceedings, and the authorities are inactive, so long will liability to the disease be perpetuated. Under these circumstances, we have to look for the next best thing to be done, and bearing in mind that the state of the physical system ia an important tactor in relation to susceptibility to the " germ," it should become a matter of constant and watchful care that the tone of the system should be kept up to good form. It not ujnfrequenfcly occurs that persons habitually healthy and vigorous, begin at times to feel a degree of lassitude and disinclination to exertion, and a sensation of " tiredness," without any apparent cause, occasionally, not constantly perhaps, is noticed by the individual himself. This may arrive from the disorganisation of some important functional part of the internal economy—it may be the liver or the kidneys that are not properly performing their office. The result is the communication of poisonous acids to the blood, and this besoming vitiated, the disposition to " housinn " the germ of typhoid will be the reEulfcy whereas, if the impairment did not exist, the germ probably would not find lodgment. The recent case of Constable Cameron in the Police Hospital is in point. At the inquest held, on his remains, it was stated by the Medical Officer»in charge that had it not been for the diseased condition of | the kidneys, ho would not in all probability have become one of the victims of typhoid.