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tbe same temperature in the


northern


sections ot'bd


than


here.


have


already described


the behaviit9


meat when exposed for some time to currents of


the preceding considerations to -these


facts


we must


that


air here, though


moderately warm and damp;


tions which


be notably free


course, give


from


Mnd we should also


those


infer


particular


agents


activity to
decay and


that wounds would


germs,
putrefacti


progress in a


ticularly satisfactory manner


which is a fact


also that dipI t


is unknown


, as is genuine


cholera,


typhoid


fever,


erysipelas rare, and scarlet fever rare and


purity of


the air


here, that


mild.


corn mparative


Whether
freedom I


putrefactive germs, and


its exemption from those diseases,


the relation of


cause and effect


, can not yet be demonstrated,


it may reasonably be


inferred.t


relation is fast establishing

 In the year 1876, according


itself


to the


At all
in the


Report


events, a belief in


minds


of the Brooklyn


some of 0


Board


Health, there


deaths.


were, in


that city alone,


2,329


In 1878 this disease, according to the


off 2,393 persons in Paris.
has little if any influence


distinctly concerned in


Besmer


in determining


cases of diphtheria and
" Le Progres M6dCocl," oa


observes that density of poppy


the disease, but poverty is


promoting its development.


This, if so, speaks


for the purity of the air here, for there is poverty enough among the a


inhabbitants.


Bad drainage is thought in this country to have an


influence in promoting the disease, and


there are cities in this State


will afford unusuneally fine examples of this, and yet we see no diphtheria.


t The army surgeons during the


ate war found that a thorough appli


of carbolic acid to the streets, lanes, yards, and houses of districts infCO


Yellow fever


in New Orleans, decidedly


limited the spread of that


and the practice has been continued there ever since.


kyrb tihe
p~inJ Y


"London Lancet,


Burgeon-Major Tuson, Sixteenth


14enmics of cholera in India.
 ;aiwt be done thoroughly.


Royal Cavalry,


has frequently o1


the beneficial effects of burning fit
But as in the case of the use of ear
The author cites instances in which


apparently speedily succumbed after thorough ftmzigti of
asnd streets. Tbhe piles of wood eree pl4aod att


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