The Archive · 1911

Microbes in Relation to

DISEASE, At the Chinese Y. M. C. A. on Wedneeday night Dr. E. L. Mors, why communicable seldom nursed at home with the care they require. It is impossible in " small private house to take all the necessary precautions, and for these snd other reasons one of the chief and best methods by which communicable diseases are combated is the provision of hospitals for the care and treatment of the sick.

It is only ben borpitals for the isol jon measures. You have hospitals for this parpose in Shanghai of which on Health and Sanitation. Sir! you can jestly be proud. From my own Havilland de Sansmsrez occupied the experience I can traly aay that the chair and prominent Chinese and foreiga majority of patients leave such well-guests were on the platform. The appointed hospitals not only cared of Keetare was of a deeply interesting their diseases, bat in better estat and was listened to with health than when they entered them, preciation by a large audience, Another good and certain method of fled the large s Martyr's Memor saving yourself and your family from Dr. Chang acted as interpreter. falling victims to these diseases is to The tollowiog is a synopsis have your house in order. The germa of chal typhoid fever, and abject is too large to be plag positively live poo gross dealt with io the I aod palpable dirt, and wherever they lecture, my remark sustain themselves there will filth be facts about the germs which are reeponfonnd most gross and palpable, and sible for the more common infectious or they may be exterminated by the communicable diseases, The lesson has removal of that filth, Even those been learnt that organization to resist communicable diseases sach as smallsuccesslaily sach diseases as plaga pox, scarlet fever, tabsrcalosia and cholera, smallpox, and tabercalosis mast diphtheria, which can scarcely be said to embrace not only local authorities! live entirely upon uncleanliness, but bot nations themselves; an illustration attack men as men, are all aggravated of which is afforded by the forthcoming thereby. Their tendency to spread io international conference on plague increased and their fatality beight-Makden, Even in Chins, where condiened. It is too often the custom 8 favourable to communicable disease to throw refaso outside in the

been made to feel their responsi offered to exist, the aothoritien bare raiaity of as dwelling, so that heap of decomposing matter ooltil the. world and to eoderstand that leets and remains to give off injurious smells and organisms into the air, Remember that it pays to be cleanly by and healthy, If your house is damp, plague germ. Like the majority of dark, and badly ventilated, be dissatiegerms that cause communicable dis fed with it and get " more habitable easer, it grows best where there is want one, The bayer makes the market. of cleanliness, overcrowding, and general So long as there are tenants for uowretchedness and misery in the homes healthy hon see, there will be unhealthy of the people. The organisms are 80 houses to be bad. Your house la, or small that they can only be seen by ought to be, your idea, expressed in he aid of the tying lenses of a wood or brick, of a straotare designed jeroscope, Many of these minate for healthful oocapaney. With regard rms get their food by living for a then to this matter of communicable body, where they diseases, I woold impress upon you hich cause disturbances strongly tobelp youre, and to aid as interpreted in health and disease. hose business is to look after Alter describing the diseases of the lame of health of thie city. smallpox, cholera, typhoid fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever and tabercalosis, should be denis Itis for Pablic advantage that the the conditions favourable to their so that pablic safety development; and the germs which are and io addition, each individual person leotarer understand. thet patienta has the advantage of knowing that fering from any of these diseases are eficleat organisation to help him, and source of great danger to other to provide for him the proper con-arge nambers of the germs of the ditions and appliances of health, each disease are discharged by the breath or pure water supply, good drainage, the bowels, and other persons are in-epidemic hospitals, disinfecting appar fected through the breathing passage, tatus, etc., and besides this to carry the food canal, or the skin, or from out the daily operations that are foiled articles, As the germs are able necessary to keep the town clean outside to multiply outside the human body, snd inside the houses of the inhabitants, they can contaminate food, drink, oF Sir Havilland de Sanemares in his 1nd be conveyed by them once more iatrodactory remarks commended the tothe beman body. Flies and other series of lectures most highly and insects are able to carry the germs from reminded the audience that be felt to a place to place, These are the reasons pecial degree responsible for their

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