1893-1894 - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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is attacked. As soon as he can move again he goes to his mill, still a
He enters a home carelessly,
sick man, conveying the seeds of disease.
slovenly kept, and the pi-emises are, strictly speaking, dirty. The result
is prompt to ensue. The atmosphere is polluted and fitted for the reproduction
of the disease which he has carried with him, and two of his
hands are seized. The timely arrival of Dr. Guiteras and his active
efforts for the betterment of the surroundings put an end to a threatened
outbreak of yellow fever in the pine woods. The application of the story
is so universal that, in conclusion, it is only necessary to say: Imitate
the example of this able housekeeper; keep your premises clean and
enjoy the immunity from infectious or contagious disease that warded
off the fell destroyer from her and her loved ones.
Gentleman in the audience:
"Should pig-pens be allowed
in a well-regulated community? Are they not promoters
of disease of many kinds? Judging from the odor that
we have had from these pig-pens on hot nights, it seems
that they might be promoters of many diseases."
Dr. Thomas: " To that I shall answer, unhesitatingly, yes.
It is impo.ssible to keep a pig-pen clean, and they are so
dirtv that thev must be promoters of sickness. It is a hard
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hing to drive the pig-pens out of a town—it was in my
town';
the poorer people thought it very hard to have their
pig-pens driven out of the city."
Dr. Lewis "
: Ladies and gentlemen, I wish to draw your
attention to the fact that this quarantine is the key-stone
to all di.sinfection. To quarantine is to surround the enemy,
and wdien we have surrounded him the next thing to do is to
kill him. It is of great importance that while we have our
hands upon the germs we should destroy them, for if we
let them escape there is no telling the amount of damage
they may do. Now, a practical illustration : Scarlet
fever
appeared in a noble family in England. Several of the
children had the disease. The family went away for a
year, and the sick children recovered. That was in a day
when quarantine had not been heard of. At the end of
the vear thev returned, and one of the children's maids
on looking into a bureau drawer found a little piece of red