Not so many epidemics of diphtheria as of typhoid have been traced to milk, but the evidence is sufficient to indict milk as a disseminator of contagion.
Milk is not so frequently the cause of dissemination as the other factors, but where milk supplies become contaminated, epidemics of considerable magnitude are wont to occur.
That the disease-producing, or pathogenic bacteria, are able to infect milk supplies is shown by the fact that numerous epidemics of contagious disease have been directly traced to milk infection.
In some cases, there will also be a risk of secondary infection and subsequent epidemics amongst troops and/or the local population.
The most clear-cut of these are the studies of the Army Commission appointed to investigate the cause of epidemics of enteric fever in the volunteer camps in the Southern United States during the Spanish-American War.
Since then, according to Frost (1911), epidemics have been observed with increasing frequency in various parts of the world.
It had often been noted thatepidemics of the human disease were preceded by great epizootics among rats and mice.
Since 1907 many epidemics have been reported in the United States, and especially in the Northern States east of the Dakotas.
These instances show that the plague, on its first arrival, carried off many more of the richer class of citizens than it did in the disastrous epidemics of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
It left a mark on the traditions of England, which may be taken as an index of its reality and its severity; and with it the history of epidemics in Britain may be said to begin.
None of the other localized epidemics of plague in those years would appear to have been of the first magnitude.
Fortunately for the brothers, the first summer of their stay in the Pestilential City was free from epidemics of any kind, and they escaped all sickness, with the exception of a slight acclimating fever.
Summer came again, and brought with it one of those fearful epidemics so frequent in that ill-fated city.
The Shans of Kengtung, a province of Upper Burma, imagine that epidemics are brought about by the prowling ghosts of wicked men, such as thieves and murderers, who cannot rest but go about doing all the harm they can to the living.
The Alfoors of Halmahera attribute epidemics to the devil who comes from other villages to carry them off.
Thus is explained the propagation of cholera by the subsoil water, and the increase of epidemics with the sinking of its level, which lessens the flow and diminishes the amount of surface water.
All great epidemics of cholera began in South Bengal, where the conditions for the development and growth of the bacillus are most perfect.
But probably every one will recognize that milk thus treated is very much safer than raw milk, and that dangers from typhoid epidemics and tuberculosis are removed, even if they do not admit that intestinal troubles are thus avoided.
Moreover, it is a fact that where epidemics have been traced to milk it has always been in communities where individual milkmen bring in milk from one or two dairies and distribute it personally.
Of course, no typhoidepidemics can ever be traced to such milk, and in general its use seems to meet with decided favor.
All the epidemics of typhoid that have been definitely traced to milk have been in small communities, and none traced to the milk of large dealers.
Prolific Australia, with all its marvellous potentialities, lay open to them, with no warlike tribes to enforce a bloody beginning to history, no epidemics to war against, no savage beasts to encounter.
The numbers of those dead from war and epidemics leave still lacking the full explanation of the fearful facts.
If one accept the germ theory, one may find in the popoi bowl a cause for the rapid spread of epidemics since the whites brought disease to the islands.
Not until epidemics have carried off all but one or two inhabitants in a valley can those remaining be persuaded to leave it.
The logical establishment of direct proof of the connection between these visitations and local epidemics in distant lands is a problem as yet unsolved.
In such severe epidemics the throat symptoms are apt to take on the aspect of diphtheria.
There are many other forms of disease, besides these, which are likewise accompanied by fever and a rash, which also appear inepidemics and are evidently due to a great variety of causes.
The weight of evidence, at first sight, would seem to lie rather in the other direction--to indicate that such epidemics are the direct outcome of existing local conditions, mental and physical.
In the meantime the Mono of the upper river had scarcely been touched, save possibly by epidemics of which we have no record.
Warfare, massacre, forced conversion, starvation, and exposure all took a tremendous toll of life but the sweeping epidemics of the 1830's were even more devastating.
Then the suddenness of the epidemics to which, whether from deficient water-supply or other causes, Central India seems so subject, is another fruitful source of terror among an ignorant people.
Similarly during epidemics of cholera liquor is largely used in the rites of the Baigas for averting the disease and is offered to the goddess.
The Baiga takes action to stop and keep off epidemics by the methods common in Chhattisgarh villages.
Whether it will ever be used to any extent is doubtful, since, as already pointed out, we are in a position to avoid cholera epidemics by other means.
It has already taught us how to crush out certain forms of epidemics by the proper means of destroying bacteria, and is lessening the dangers from contagious diseases.
It is very significant to compare the history of the cholera epidemics of the past few years with those of earlier dates.
In the epidemicsof earlier years the cholera swept ruthlessly through communities without check.
Inoculation must then be reserved for diseases which are so severe and so common, or which occur in periodical epidemics of so great severity, as to make people in general willing to submit to inoculation as a protection.
As a result, severe epidemics are becoming comparatively short-lived.
This disease in times of epidemics is so severe and the chance of infection is so great as to justify such inoculation.
If they were not--if early knowledge of threatening conditions were made public--the epidemics would seldom reach formidable proportions.
Business Interests" and Yellow Fever Epidemics are, nevertheless, in the early stages, often misreported.
But epidemics are only the guerrilla attacks of the general enemy.
I have also heard it remarked by the people that since the coming of the English the villages have ceased to be decimated by the deadly epidemics that once visited them.
Several extensive epidemics have occurred in the United States.
Now the epidemics among vegetables, have a remarkable tendency to exhibit their effects primarily on the leaves, and particularly on those parts which are appropriated to the function of respiration.
Why should the laws of Epidemicsbe less understood, than the laws which govern the course of comets?
Another feature seems to associate the Epidemics of plants and animals, in a manner suggestive of analogous causes operating in both instances.
We pass now without further comment to the epidemics of the Middle Ages; and here the work of the philosophical Hecker leaves us little else to desire in the way of information, as far as it is obtainable from published records.
Sigaud, in his work on the Climate and Diseases of Brazil, speaks of Epidemics of grave intermittent Fever, and Dr.
This leads now to the consideration of recorded facts observed and noted during the various Epidemics in the early and subsequent periods of Man's History, as given by those on whom reliance may be fairly placed.
There is one peculiar feature of all epidemics which may be here mentioned as indicative of some definite, though at present unaccountable cause, operating in the sudden suppression of the disease after a certain period of duration.
It is not by chance that the earlier epidemics of pathological suggestibility have on the whole disappeared with the better popular education.
A History ofEpidemics in Britain, by Charles Creighton, M.
The greatest scourge among the epidemics which have devastated the world is the Eastern bubonic plague, which entered Europe for the first time in the fourteenth century.
Mr. Power refers me to the fact that isolated cases of plague and local epidemics occurred long after the Great Fire.
We might expect, however, that those works published at the time of great epidemics would furnish us with valuable material for epidemic history.
He writes: 'The history of the English sweat presents to the student of epidemicsmuch that is paradoxical although not without parallel, and much that his research can never rescue from uncertainty.
In taking stock of diseases and epidemics in London, we may note that many of the pestilences previous to the Black Death were due to famine.
It has been noticed that certain atmospherical phenomena have attended or preceded the suicidal epidemics that have prevailed at various periods.
One of the most remarkable epidemics of the kind was that which prevailed at Versailles in the year 1793.
Epidemics may kill their dozens--Fear kills its thousands.
Epidemics owe their rapid spread and heavy death rate to Fear and Ignorance.
Then again when great epidemics occur anywhere, and multitudes need me, I am free to go and serve them.
You have taught all of us how to save lives in such a case, how to deal with the epidemics that are common enough on plantations.
The epidemics incident to the season were thus spread over the whole country; and, until the close of the year, disease continued so prevalent as to form a subject of communication from the government in Bengal to the Court of Directors.
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