Is Typhoid Preventible?

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7665, 29 June 1896, Page 4

Is Typhoid Preventible?

.Typhoid is a disease of bacilli, typhoid .' ibaoilli ; and the baollll we find in human j 'excrement, and ia drinking water fouled | .by such excrement. It is probable that jj no man or woman ever takes typhoid except by. swallowing some typhoid bacilli. .They may be swallowed, as we have said, in drinking water, or they may be flying ' about jn the air in the neighborhood of typhoid excrement, and may be swallowed with mouthfula of air. What then is the first and last commandment of typhoid .prevention? "Cleanliness; personal and public cleanliness." It is all there. If we keep ourselves clean ; if we keep our drinking water clean ; if we keep our closets and our drains, our kitchens, sculleries, gardens, streets, and towns entirely clean, typhoid will be practically as great a stranger to most of us as is the ghost of King Solomon or the shade of the extinct Deinotherium. — Hospital. They are always trying to " lick creation" on the other side of the Atlantio, and if Senator Brown, of Utah, gets his way Congress will be able to boast of something truly big in maps. The map which he proposes will be miniature, indeed, but also monstrous, for it will represent every feature of the country, down to the hillocks and duck-ponds, one foot of surface to represent a squßre mile of actual area, and the whole making a map more than balf a milo one way by a third of a mile the other. It will first be necessary for Congress to provide about 745 acres of land on which to locate the map. Possibly, however, it may not get as far bb that. The Kootenay district of Southern British Columbia promises within a short period to vie with South Africa and the Cripple Creek district of Colorado as the centre of a great mining industry. The development during the past few months has been extraordinary. Two substantial towns, Rossland and Frail, havo sprung into existence within the year. The Canadian Pacific Railway proposes to build a new line through Crow's Nest Pass to tap the Kootenay distriot, and the Government will, ask Parliament to lend the company L 1.000,000 for 20 years at 3£ per cent, for this line. Enormouß deposits of coal are known to exist at Crow's Nest. In connection with the new train de luxe between Ostend and St. Petersburg, the Independance Beige points out that with the completion of the trans-Siberian railway in 1900 the tour of the world in 30 days will become an accomplished fact. The time of . transit between London and St. Petersburg { will be 45 hours, the journey to Port Arthur beiDg performed in 250 hours. From here the steamerß of a Russo-American company now in formation will convey the traveller 1 to San Francisco in seven days, whence 10 1 days will suffice for the return to London. The entire fare is calculated to cost from £50 > to £80.. A rather. amusing incident occurred at - the Auckland Magistrate's . Court on i Friday, says the Auckland Herald, during i the hearing of a lawsuit over a suit of > clothes. Defendant had refused to take i delivery of the articles, as he considered the fit was no fit at all, and the plaintiff ■ sought to recover the value of the things. ' The plaintiffs case had closed, when Mr i Northcroft suggested that defendant . should try the coat and vest ou. This he i did, and the effect was so grotesque that i the whole Court was moved to laughter. , Defendant's appearance bore eloquent testimony of the truth of his asssertion that the things were " no fit," and as soon i as the Court recovered its equanimity, 1 judgment was entered for defendant with i costs. ■ Anyone who has children will rejoice with L. B. Mulford, of Plainfield, N.J. His little j boy, five years-of age, was sick with croup. For two days and nights he tried various | remedies recommended by friends and neigh- ■ bors. He Bays : " I thought sure I would lose him. I had seen Chamberlain's Cough i Remedy advertised, and thought 1 would try it as a last hope, and am happy to say that after two doses he slept until morning. I gave it to him next day, and a cure was effeoted. I keep this remedy in the house . now, and as soon as any of my children show signs of croup I give it to them, and that is the last of it." For sale by E. D. Smith, 1 wholesale and retail agent. — Advt.