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About The Streets

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Day
31
Month
July
Year
1896
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Public Domain
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Dr. V. C. Vanghna lectured to the sumnier school studeuts and others in Tappan hall, Tuesday evening, on "The restrictiou of disease." His hour's talk was a veiy practical one aud should be of great benefit to the teachers attending the snmuier school as by an act passed by the last legislature the teachers of the state have to teach sanitary soience, along the liues of prevention aud restrictiou of dangerons conimnuicable diseases. He said that 200 years ago it was the exception to meet a mau in Loudon whose face was not marked by siaallpox. Now to meet such a person is a rare exceptiou. Jenuer's disooveries aud the introduction of vaccinatio, compulsory and voluntary, are responsible for this, and by universal vaccintiou the disease can, beyond all question, be absolutely stamped out. Confiniug himself to the practical restriotion of typboid fever and consuniption, :he two most troublesome diseases, Dr. Vaughan said that both can and are going to be absolutely exterrninated, thongh the medical profession is, without boasting, fully 100 years ahead of popular opiniĆ³n. The time will ooroe, ie said, wheu a mnnicipality will be liable for damages for a case of typhoid Eever contracted within its limits, for 99 out of every 100 of snch cases are cansed by an impnre water supply. Until that time comes, the watchword, said the doctor, is boil your water, whether you feel sure it is free from geruis or u rt. Boil it any way f ot half an hour and make doubly sure. If people would quit driuking water not sterilized or boiled, typhoid fever will disappear. As to cousumption, there is no danger of contractiug merely from daily contaot with a consumptive, even from sleeping with hiin. The germs are not exhaled from the body, but come merely from the matter cughed up.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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