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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1921-01-13, Page 6BIEL OUT ALL OX A Menace to the People of Canada—Country Has Grown Neglectful of Precautions, War Conditions Increased Danger. contact with People from all parts of the world, some of whom brought with Small -pox is a great Ileal like quack - grass. Quackgrass, twitch -grass, or Johnny grass as it is called, can us- ually be killed by intensive eultivaW tion, but as every farmer knows, a few half -live patches will soon cover the entire field unless precautionary measures are taken. So it Is with smallpox. Unvaccinated people are the ones who keep the disease in exist- ence. During the past decade or two; peo- ple in the country have grown neglect- ful of the dangers of the disease. We have had a long period of comparative freedom from. smallpox. Like the farmer who summer-fallaws the field infested with the long white roots of quack -grass, we, for a long time had physicians vaccinate our children and ourselves wherever there was the slightest danger of • catching this dis- ease. And we were careful to see that when the immunity of the vaccine wore off we were again vaccinated. It was in this way that smallpox was rendered one of the least feared of in- fectious diseases. In fact, it betaine an uncommon sight to see a pox-; marked person, an alino;t certain sign that lie was a foreigner coming from same European country which did not enforce, or urge the use of vaccine as a preventive and curative measure for smallpox. Symptoms of Disease. Now the disease again menaces the >wanadia,n people. For this there are several reasons. One is, of course, our carelessless in regard to tha mat- ter of vaccination; another b that fact that during the war large num- bers of our citizens were bioughta in them infection of smallpox from, coun- tries in which the disease is endemic, or present at all times; while an- other reason can be found 111 the re- cent increase in immigration. In smallpox the first symptoms are headache, backache, chills and fever, lasting about three days, followed by the aforementioned eruption. Fever subsides when the eruption appears. In chickenpox the fever begins when the eruption appears and usually tate first sign observed is the eruption, ac- companied by a slight rise in tem- perature. It should be remembered that adults seldom have chickenpox, and that therefore ati eruption, • espectitilly a papular eruption becoming vesicular, occurring in a person more than ten or twelve years of age, should be re- garded as probably smallpox. The sante precautions should be taken as in cases of recognized smallpox, until some competent authority nes decided that the disease is not smallpox. It is even best to take such precautions in chickenpox, since smallpox has of- ten been diagnosed as chickenpox, the mild form of smallpox making the er- ror more common of late. By taking all these precautions members of the family will be protected against pos- sible infection. Public interests should be given the benefit of every doubt. Facts About Smallpox. The immunity of vaccination lasts about five years. People should be vaccinated against smallpox because of the danger of ex- posure from travellers, and in many unknown ways. Thus at the present time smallpox ' is a real menace to our national health and welfare. Yet it is entirely within the power of any people to erect the barrier of vaccination against the disease, the one preventive measure which has proved effective. Here are two examples of the effec- tiveness of vaccination against email - pox: In Cuba, during 1896 and 1897 them were more than a thousand deaths yearly in the city of Havana alone. from smallpox. Following the Ameri- can occupation of the island vaccina- tion was enforced among all school children, as well as among those adults who could not furnish evidence of recent vaccivation. Between the years of 1901 and 1917 only one person in the city of Havana died of the dis- ease. In 1909 Japan passed a law re- quiring vaccination of every infant within nissety days of birth. This measure has greatly reduced the num- ber of cases and deaths, and there are no longer serous epidemics of the dis- ease in Japan. Smallpox is an acute, infectious dis- ease, characterized by sudden fever, which is followed in forty-eight hours by an eruption appearing on forehead, face and wrists, and gradually passing over the entire body. The tempera- ture as the eruption appears, and within from ten to fourteen clays the disease passes through various stages until the eruptions become crust -like. As a rule smallpox attacks a person but once, though instances of second attacks have been reported. 1116‘ MIL Vik. VI' S V&NMNM V4,k Ifia TAmos@, MO= IR1 HEALTH EDUCATION BY DR. J. J. MIDDLETON Ontario Board of Health Middleton will be glad to answer questions on Public Health mat- ters through this column. Address him at the Parliament Bldgs., 0 Toronto. "BR► q� vow No. lei ` y _..'ilk '!9. 11116, 1111, itlk moan®� �4 It is said that every living thing an the fly in his true light we will pre - this earth has a definite purpose in vent his breeding by abolishing his breeding places. The real purpose of being here. Whatthen, is the purpose the fly, therefore, is to serve as a per - of the common house fly that we know petual, tormenting, disgraceful re - so well? If it is to spread disease( minder of uncleanliness, and the les - and death and be a general nuisance to 1 son he will eventually teach sits is one man and the higher animals, its lois-) of sanitation. sion is fulfilled to the letter. 1 By far the greatest objection to flies i cooked to a degree sufficient to cause the death of the germ, a powerful toxin is produced which resists heating 11 up to 100 degrees 0., and which can mg cause an outbreak of food poisoning. Well cooked food is therefore, not only 0 palatable, but is also much more likely to be free from infection: the cooking preserves the meat from putrefactive changes by heat sterilization and may somewhat in crease its digestibility. Sausage poisoning or botulism is now very rare in this .country, but is worthy of notice. The sausage, especi- ally the large Cambridge type, is sometimes infected with the bacillus botulinus, but this infection also is found at times in hams soaked in brine. The symptoms are those of in- tense nervous prostration, with some- times impairment of vision, speech, and general lack of co-ordination. This. is in contrast to food poisoning by the germs are transmitted, few could show Of all the agencies by which diseases a tremendous amount of disease, as • comes from the fact that they spread Gaertner bacilli, which produce intesti- nal disorders, severe diarrhoea, ab - more definite results than that ac- well as being a great discomfort and dominal pain, etc. complished by the common fly.a carrier of filth. Besides actually Although all infected meat, whether Yet, after all, there may be a good dropping the germs from the feet and, tinned or not, must be condemned, motive underlying the presence of this lege, flies may transmit disease by dis- i raising the temperature to a sufficient pest, if humanity was only intelligent charging their vile disease -laden ex -i height during cooking will kill off or enough and educated enough to appre- creta either directly or indirectly upon destroy the virulence of infective ma elate it. One thing we know definitely life food. This is not only the most' tenial in food suspected of not being is that the fly will not linger long in objectionable, but the moot dangerous quite pure, a place that is clean and sanitary. It feature of the typhoid fly, and though I An inspection of meat for human goes where filth abounds; and in doing l we might get used to it as an irrita- consumption, is now varied out in all so it is only acting in its own interests in search of food. If it gets the better tion and annoyance, we cannot over- cities and towns, and in addition all trouble will disappear. There are look it in its death -dealing capacity,' foods exposed for sale and intended more people who owe their pre-cut our minds objectified. And know that. the Whole wide world of us and finds filth exposed it tot War must be made on the fly even! for human consumption must be pure stale' of good health to ])r. Williams' Health is based upas the Ideal of is yours! more discredit to :as than blame outside the house and its environs.1 or the law can take action. • utas: Pills than to any other Williefue„ the body's perfection and the absolute Why, tete pre Ste t, Most glorious boots the fly. This fact is being rapidly brought Some day the presence of flies in p home to the food purveyor, whatever ...1 particular line may be, for people Scrubbing Coal >� nowadays are beginning to avoid the food -serving establishment where these little pests abound. Because of the spread of health knowledge, house- wives now shun the dirty, fly -ridden meat market, grocery store or candy shop. Any tot in the kindergarten class will tell you that flies are dang- erous, hence the meat dealer of to -day parties brought to boot. This' is as must have his meats carefully protect - it should be, but up to the present) ed from flies, street dust, etc. The there is no indication of this clesired I dust when dry can spread the germs state of hygienic perfection being 1 of tuberculosis very readily,, as infect - reached, so we resort to "Swat the fly ed persons have not yet learned to other temporarily &as- campaigns and ;avoid spitting on the streets. tic measures. 1 Other ways by which people get in - These, of course, relieve the trouble t fected with disease germs include ac- tempotarily but do not strike at its tual contact with a patient or the root. When we learn to appreciate bedclothes, and discharges from the to nose, throat or ears, as in scarlet fever. Patients detained in an isola- tion hospital with communicable dis- ease should be free of any discharges 1 from the nose, throat or ears before leaving hospital. At the Top. There's ever a crowd in the valley And at the }case of the climb; But there are few that appoar to view At the crown of, the height sublime, The plain is filled with the turmoil, -The outward struggle and strife, But the Spirit broods o'er the soli- tudes On the higher levels of, life. You aro jostled aside in the valley, For the lower a soul descends, The more it finds of the smaller minds That seek but their selfish ends; But there's elbow room on the moun- tain, And, freed from the lower din, There's a chance to hear with some liner ear The call of the voice within. There's companionship Its the valley; With others your lot Is thrown; But the man who tries for the larger prize Must travel the heigh=ts alone. • He must make for himself a pathway Where no other foot e'er trod, Till he grows complete in content- ment sweet, As he learns to walk with Goa. • Thero is glory upon the mountain, Though the summit is cold and bleak, Yet the radiant burst of the dawn falls first, Like a blowing rose. on the peak. Though tempests are in the valley, The sunshine is on the height; And the golden day, ere it speeds away, There rests in its last good -night. Then dare the paths of the mountain, 0 spirit with Godlike fire, Whose depths are stirred by an in- ward Word To struggle and to aspire. Be not content with the sluggard In the valleys of life to stop. Turn with eager soul, to the higher goal And end your place at the top. FREQUENT EADAC ES A Sure Sign That• the Blood is Watery and Impure. People with thin blood are much more subject to headaches than full- blooded persons and the form of anaemia that afflicts growing girls is almost always accompanied by head- aches, together with disturbance of the digestive •orgasj. •'i3'henever. you have constant or re- curring headaches and pallor of the face, they show that the blood is thio s td be directed an your efforts should d u toward building up your blood. A. fair treatment with I)r. 'Williams' Pink Pills •„•ill do this effectively, and the rich red blood pride by these pills will remove the headache. More disturbances to the health are caused by their blood Chau most people have any idea of. When your blood is impoverished, the nerves suffer from lack of nourishment, and you may be troubled with insomnia, neuritis, neur- algia, or sciatica. Muscles $ubjeet to strain are undernourished and you may have muscular rheumatism or lumbago. If your blood is thin and you begin to show symptoms of any of these disorders, try building up the blood with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and as the blood is restored to its nor- mal condition every symptosis of the AUTO SPARE PARTS for moat makes and models, of. cars. Tour old, broken or worn-out parts replaced, Write or wire us describ- ing what you want. We carry the largest zmd most complete stock in Canada of slightly used or new parts and automobile equipment. 'we ship C.O,D, anywhere in Canada. Satis- factory or refund in full our motto, Shaw's Auto 15a.lvae•o vavC Supply, 833-031 »u'llrreria St., 3'oronto, Out, Comparative Cost of Stump Blasting in Sandy and Clay Soils. To -those unfamiliar with blasting, a stump is a stump. The ordinary farmer will point to a stump in a field and ask how much it ought to cost to get that stump out: If you ask him, "Is it standing in a dense clay soil or a loose sandy soil?" he will reply in surprise, "What difference does that make?" It is because of the general ignor- ance of the beginner as to this feature of blasting that most of those trying stump blasting for the first time fail to- obtain satisfactory restate. However, the kind of soil in which a stump is standing makes all the def- erence in the world. A stump in sandy soil must be loaded differently and loaded much more heavily than a stump in clay soil. I know for I have been blasting sttnnps for nearly forty years and have used tons of dynamite on such work. To give your readers a little infor- mation on this ,subject, I will cite two or three blasting jobs that I did in 1917. • On Clarence Brown's farm, the soil is a light sandy type. He had twenty- eight pine stumps in one of his fields which he wanted to get rid of. It required 14:1 pounds of dynamite, 114 feet of fuse and twenty-eight caps to dispose of them. It cost him.- $38.77. I used as high as eighteen pounds of dynamite under one stump, twelve under another and from one and a half to ten pounds under the rest. Just compare the above with the cost of some stump blasting I did for Eugene Allen on whose farm a clay tared two cubs and the child. who had soil predominates. He had eighty-one apparently been reared with the leo- stumps to be taken out. I did it with pard's litter. The parents identified fifty-two pounds of dynamite, 150 feet the child and their claim was admitted of fuse and eighty-one caps. The work by the whole village. cost him $14,11. The stumps were When first•caught the child bit and elm, oak, maple, ash and basswood, These stumps were about the same average size as the stumps on the Brown farm, yet I was able to get out eighty-one of them for a little 'more BOY S?� OLE AM) REARED BYE ARD BABY CARRIED AWAY, NOW 7 YEARS O.D. Runs on All Fouts, Bites and Fights All Who Come Near, and Devours Raw Food. The fantastic stories of Budyard ICipling's Mowgli and of Tartan of the; Apes; have found a parallel in real life in the case of a North India hill baby *Stolen and roared by 0 leopard, ac- cording to the Calcutta correspondent of The Loudon Morning Post. Stuart Baker, when in the village of Dhuugi, iu the Cachar Hills, on In- dia's northeastern frontier, was con- fronted in the local courthouse with protests from a certain native, that ire was nimble to do his share of local road unending, because if he left Monte his little wild son would run away to the jungle. Mr. Baker visited the man's hut to see the "wild child," and found thero a boy of about seven, naked, Who mu about on all fours like a small animal. At the sight of the. stranger the child sniffed about bins ;mil ended by loll- ing on all four; to )iia father, backing between his legs lila au animal miter- ing a burrow. The child was almost blind, suffering from cater•acts, and his head was covered with tiny scars and sera tches. An Extraordinary Tale. The father's story is that 'when the boy was two years old a female' leo- pard had come upon the child and mother iu a rice field, snatched the baby from the mother and bounded away into the jungle, A search was instituted, but no trace of the child. could be found. Three years later sportsmen tract:ecl a leopard to her liar and killed her. There they cap - fought with every one who came near hint and seized any village fowls that he could capture, devouring then sav- agely. He ran about on all fours with extraordinary rapidity, and kis knees than a third what it cost to blast' had hard calluses on them, while his twenty-eight out of sandy ,oil, toes remained upright, almost at right angles to the•instep. Later he learned Health ----the Everlasting to eat -cooked food, consented to sleep Reality. in his father's but, and seemed to know the villagers by sense a smell. To nothing else touching his life eau Tr. Baker has contributed a detail- theeth in aphorism "As a man tlsiuk ed story of the case to Teta Journal of Itis hurt so 19 he" be more. fittingly the Bombay Natural History Society. applied than to a man's health, • Health can be established only by «'L Need d of To -day. thinking health, just as disease is es- tablished by thinking disease. Just Ole it lent reform tita` 1 u<>eded to - as you must think success, expect it, day! visualize it, make your mind a huge Ire liglitnese of heart, the spirit of Success magnet to attract it if you are •play! to attain it, so it you want to be It's letting go at thr' sober view healthy, you must think health, you And seeing life as the children do. must expect it, you must visualize it, It's taking time for the Iittle things you must attract it by making your That out of confusion calmness brings. mind a huge health magnet to attract The time to idle and meditate more health, abundant health. As On the simple joys ere it be too Iafe, long as physical defects, weaknesses, 'i'o tramp through the woods with a dog at heel; To build a fire and cat your meal 'Heath the spacious' roof of rod's out- doors, • or diseased conditions exist in the imagination, as long as the 'emind is filled wth visions of ill health the body must correspond, because our bodies are bat an extension of our thoughts, any locality will bring a blush of shame to the official face of the local sanitary authorities. Posters will im- mediately be displayed warning the public of the danger in their midst and offering a reward for the ap- prehension of the miscreant who was responsible for the coming of the fly. Indignation meetings will most probably be held, and the guilty say so. thing but the ideal condition; upon Is to be in tune with the seasons' call: CrLI iriE► Oa for You. You can get Dr. Williams' Pink fills the idea that only that which is good It's being alive to the soul of things People demand clean coal. That is ths'ougls any dealer in -medicine or by for us can be real in the highest sense Till your heart treats high and your The man immersed in material things and who lives only to make money, believes he can make it; knows that he can make it. He does not say to himself every morning, "Well, I do not know whether 1 can make anything to -day. I will try. I may succeed and I may not." He simply and positively asserts that he can do what he desires and then starts out to put into operation plans and farces which will bring it about. Unsound food and impure water are also sources of infection. One of the commonest forms of food poisoning is 1 through meat, the Gaertner bacilli, a group of organisms much re embling 'the typhoid germ, being generally re- spon.sible, This infection sometimes gains access to the treat from outside sources either due to contamination of the food by carriers, or else the animal slaughtered Vas at the time suffering from an infection of the Gaertner group of bacilli. The danger of this bacillus hi poisoning food is that although infected heat may be to say, it mast not contain too much slate or other refuse, At the mines, tlierefoxe, the coal output, before being loaded on cars for market, is cleaned of such waste King George Changes. material as thoroughly as practicable. This 'is particularly difficult at the Trooper's Rations. bituminous mines, where the coal, be- Sergeant. Guyon of Troop 11, Ameri- ing soft," falls so reanny to dust acars Forces in Germany, has the .dis- consider.able quantity of fuel is lost i:inctiart of having nasi his ration in this dust yearl3 • changed by direct oudurs from King This dust, or "slack," has a George, says a. Cciblery d, spatch. value, But the latter is much lessen- '�rlteu the Ameriesn Arniy polo tears, rket ed if it contains touch foreign matter. from Coblenz was in 1,utarrtrtri, recent at that is in a finely divided stale has, Aldershot. The King visited the field reasons, 'Illus, for nice example, in very mporfac•- seemed hitherto to be out of the ques- ; anti was a•ttraoted by the panicle blaze - For various reasons, including ci ttel- tune of chlorine it is important on• kete bearing the letter: io.1c.G," 1 'e A scientist at the United States approached to fnsleut. ihe.nt and ad- Tiureau of Standards, however, seems dressed Guyon: Film Censors raised •ablecimiis to 253 to be on the way to solving this prob-' dressed how are Jou getting along in iilssus last Sear. lens. He mixes coal dust with 25 per . England?" ,�....- cent. of crude oil, and, attar thorough The 13riti lr 9oruunries n.eua,r 1)1 stand - cent. hospital without wards, where ing at attention were petrified }ry people of small. or, no means can re•• Guyon's reply: "Olt, pretty well, King, ceive private treatment, is being built but say, this tea we have for break- in New York, fast is tierce --can't: yon fix it up so ....., � . mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes tor' of the word; that all physical discords $2,50 from The Dr. Williams Medicine are only the absence of harmony, not Co., Brockville, Ont. the reality of our being, the truth of us. Health is the everlasting reality, disease is the absence of reality. it is only seeming. In proportion io the physician's ability to suggest perfect soundness of bode to his patient, to visualize hint i• o play! as physically perfect; in proportion to �'�• his power to see and to impress upon Peace Uses for Gas Mask. the mind or -his patient the imag•e of The gas mask, developed for war tine ideal, instead of that of the tits- purposes, is now proving exceedingly useful in various industries wherein dangerous chemicals are dealt with. spirit sings. And you laugh aloud with the careless joy Of a happy girl or a merry boy! Oh, the poignant need of the world. to -day Is ;la 0119ne, s, love of the 0:irt.ii ;Ind - eased,, discordant, suffering intlividiral, will separate out such refuse from coal y had. if the ponies ly, Guyon tkt . charge C . E 1 i. ; will he be able to help him. tl ty to animals, y-ruesonse details in crime, irreverence, and, excessive re- volver shooting, the British Board of stirring, the coal takes the form of lit- tle pellets, with no dirt in them. Then he gets back all the oil by dis- tillation, so that none of it is lost. The coal is pure, the oil is recovered; and, we citn have coffee?" The King laughed, and at}deessing one of lois sides, said: "Sec to It that these *mots have cof- fee hereafter," And the Americans had coi•tee. incidentally, certain lay-producee of , value, such as benzol, are obtained. Better Qualified, Farmer—Phi give you $ y a day to help me dig potatoes. You can start now." Dusty Modes— -Guess you better do it alone, tnisier. You planted 'em, so you know where they are." British forces in Meeopotainla in- ereased from 80,000 mets elk August est to 101,000 on October 1st, at a weekly cost on the latter date of $2,- 955,000, Hidesool5Fors1 FOR 50 YEARS we have been giving our hasty shippers fair and satisfactory returns. e WILLIAM STONE SONS, LTD, Woodstock, Ont. iswasirs Seater that workers shall be protected front the fumes. Consequently there Inas proved to be an opportunity in that in- dustry for the gas mask to do vahr able service. Chlorine is Iargely utilized as a tlisintoetant as well as for otlier purpose,. It is the same. way with hydrochlo- ric acid, in the production of which gas.maske are now used. This Olteni1• cal is especially valuable as a re -agent in chemical laboratories. serves 111a -once which 5 ry s A new cnuhty , purpose of a gas mask for brief use, is a sort of cartridge which is held bo, tween the teeth for breathing, tite nos. trils being stopped b3' a wire clamp attacked to it. This is nit:ended, howl ever, only for occasions when a work, man is obliged to go for a few issinntee into a pl.t "e which is tilled with date gerous gets.