TYPHOID.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXV, Issue 46, 23 February 1889, Page 3

TYPHOID.

While the whole community is deeply interested m the alarming spread of this fatal disease, it is amazing to contemplate the fearful amount of indifference exhibited with regard to its dangers. Whether it is communicated to the human frame by " microbes" " bacilli," or more simply speaking by " germs,"^ it seems agreed that improved sanitation is the main remedy for preventing its propagation. This indeed has been clearly proved by the results obtained m England since attention has been given to strict sanitary law, and it behoves every householder, oy occupier of a dwelling, m these colonies, to keep this fact m view, and act accordingly with respect to his own premises and its surroundings. So long, however, as individuals have no control over their neighbors' proceedings, and the authorities are inactive, so long will the liability to the disease be peryetua'ted. Under these circumstances, we have to look for the next best thing to be done, and bearing m mind that the state of the physical system is an important factor m 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 unfrequently 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 arise from the disorganisation of some important functional part of the internal economy and 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 becoming vitiated, the disposition to " housing " the germ of typhoid will be the result, whereas, if the impairment did not exist, the germ probably would not iind lodgment. „ _ The recent case of constable Cameron m the Police Hospital is m point. At the inquest held on his remains it was stated by the Medical Officer m charge, that had it not been for the diseased condition of the kidneys, he would not m all probability have become one of the victims of typhoid. Therefore, whatever tends to keep the organs m their normal condition, is the best antidote to typhoid, and for this, there is nothing equal to Warner s safe cure, which has been thoroughly tested by thousands, and incontestibly proved to act as represented.