Die Spread of Consumption.
The recent di~c-i««ion in the French Academy of Medicine oil the spread of consumption by infection acquired in public buildings has b--en followed by renewe 1 attention to the part which is played in its dissemination by railway carriages and other public vehicles. The subject is far from new. It has long been established by the careful experiments made in T>r Koeh's laboratory on behalf of the Herman Public Health Office that railway carriages, find in particular those of the thirdclass and sleeping compartments, normally contain considerable numbers of the germ?? of this and othr-r diseases. Unfortunately, it is impossible, as was pointed out by M. Terrier in the Academy, to follow the cases infected in this way, which drift unobserved into the general body of the community, and are there liable to frv*i nf irtf.-nf!- >1 ;>",l iM'blin rl-in- • ■ . ■- ■ -r.::' • .i. >, :■>>'>■ : ~I ■. ■ ! ; rn r :' '!;■ - respon-iU'!" i>*>' : <»• of a considerable amount of disease ; and it will be more satisfactory for the conditions which render this possible to be removed than for it to necessary to institute an inquiry into the extent of the mischief. British Medical Journal.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 24, 23 May 1896, Page 4
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191Die Spread of Consumption. Hastings Standard, Issue 24, 23 May 1896, Page 4
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