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205 ap1>endix. present in the eastern part of our State, to deep driven or bored wells, or, still better, cisterns. Appreciating and indorsing the sentiment expressed in a favorite saying of one of my former teachers, that he 'Svould not give one barefaced, bald-headed ./Wr/for all the theory in the world," and realizing how much more eftective an argument in the concrete, as it were, is than in the al^stract, it is my i)urpose to attempt to make the demonstration, not by a i)rocess of abstract reavsoning, but by the citation of well-authenticated facts, first as set forth in the writings of others; and, secondly and chiefly, as they appear in letters from our own "home folks" giving their personal experience. As long as the gaseous theory i)revaile<l it was natural that the water-transmission of the poison should not have been suggested itself; but as soon as it was shown to be a solid that view was brought forward, and first, so far as I know, by Laveran himself The conclusions ai-rived at by him on this subject are: **There have been observed cases in which, in the same locality, persons living in identical conditions, but using drinking water from different sources, the one group being attacked in a large proportion, while the other grouj) of i>ersons are scarcely atfected at all. "2. In certain otherwise unhealthy localities the paludal fevers have been seen to disai)j>ear by sui>i)lying ])nre drinking water instead of tlie previously used stagnant waters. In localities otherwise healthy one can contract intermittent fever l)y drinking water from an unhealthy locality. The persons most affected are those who drink the water most freely. "4. Travelers in malaria! countries have found that on boiling their drinking water they escape the disease in a large i)roportion of cases." Dr. H. Martyn Clark, of the city of Amritsar, India, in a most interesting paper read l)efore the Scottish Geographical Society in April, 1S92, says: ''The malarial poison is usually breathed into the system, l)ut it is, in my opinion, quite as commonly imbibed. Water is contaminated in two ways: either by the power it has of absorbing malaria which })asses over its surface, or, in the case of wells, through the subsoil water. * In 1S84 a party of workmen sent to repair a l)ridge over the Chuka drank of this stream, and out of thirty only three escaped fever, wlii'e several of them died." In the aiticle on ''Malaria," page :>')0, Vol. II, of Stevenson and Mur-l)hy's "Treatise on liygiene," ISOo, the following case recorded by Boudin is quoted: "One hundred and twenty soldiers embarked in the Argo for trans|)ort froni Eona, in Algiers, to Marseilles. During the voyage one hundred and eleven of them, thirteen of whom died, suffered from different forms of malarial fever. Two other vessels, carrying between them six hundred and eighty soldiers, also from Bona, and arriving at Marseilles the same day as the Argo, had no cases of illness at all, and the onlv ascertainable diflerence of circumstance between the
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Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Heath [1879-1908] |
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Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Heath [1879-1908] |
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205 ap1>endix.
present in the eastern part of our State, to deep driven or bored wells, or, still better, cisterns.
Appreciating and indorsing the sentiment expressed in a favorite saying of one of my former teachers, that he 'Svould not give one barefaced, bald-headed ./Wr/for all the theory in the world" and realizing how much more eftective an argument in the concrete, as it were, is than in the al^stract, it is my i)urpose to attempt to make the demonstration, not by a i)rocess of abstract reavsoning, but by the citation of well-authenticated facts, first as set forth in the writings of others; and, secondly and chiefly, as they appear in letters from our own "home folks" giving their personal experience.
As long as the gaseous theory i)revaile |
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Article Title | Drinking Water in its Relation to Malarial Diseases |
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