Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 20, 1920, Page 8

| BLOCKADING EUROPE'S PLAGUES: | BY FREDERIC J. HAS! demic diseases. China and | Japan, be Mai¥.— |cause gf overcrowding have WASHINGTON, ‘D. C! (By long had To consider measures for making | their pest diseases, but European coun- America proof against the plagues of|tries kept them out by watchful quar- Europe, Dr. Hugh Cumming, surgeon |antine. During the war, howé general of the public health service, re.| trom all parts of the globe met in I cently called a. conference of health of-| rope, bringing, as one doctor ficlals from the different states to mect | diseasis with them. ‘The armies did not here. suffer so much as did the civilians from! So far, the United States practi- these conventions of ge for they cally escaped the war d es now ‘¢ innocvlated, and vaccinated end sweeping Wurope and Asia. Dr. Cum-|{othe protected. Then soldiers and ming and! other health experts hold, | refu s went back to their homes and however, that happiness over this fact|except where precautions were taken, should be tempered with caution, When |as by this country, they carried dis - plagues exist anywhere the only safety | with them. lies in building barricades between| Lax governmental conditions in them and our owh shores, |rope are having their effect on the Every port of the United States is/dition of immigrants reaching thus protected against European | United States, Before the war, immi- germs. Quarantine rules form the|grants from Russia, for example, came barbed wire entanglements and the|to this country by -mine fields. United States health of-|and were sent throug! ficers in European ports form an in-|tions at Bremen, or telligence corps which keeps this coun-| this filter removed, informed as to the presence an1/our ports from Russia a higher per strength of this enemy which is no |age of persons suffering from infectious s r of covenants, of peace, ship lines are tightening up on health | requirements applying to their passen- Ste diseases. EB urope Disease Ridden. m- rs,» But with it all we are not aumber of people in Europe and vulnerable, and unless a hygience and | suff disease prevention campaign is wage: | isolated figure is given out, like th h infinite care, a very few war| sponsored by Mr. Davidson of the Red germs may sljp past the health inspec-| Cross, which stated that there are now to nd find congenial homes over | about 250,000 cases of typhus in Poland here and multiply with disastrous | und in the area held by Polish troops. More often the announcement {s simply that “iny Roumania tuberculosis is spreading in an alarming mann swiftness. Typhus Fever, The diseases most feared by the pub- lic health service are typhus fever and}ing its appearance everywhere, in bubonic plague, especially the latter, cities, and’ in the country districts. Typhus fever, carried by b , bet-| Burgnh $s not-anxious for the. fac’ ter known as cooties, thrives where san-| be too definitely known, but the itation is poor and dirt is plentiful. In] situation is well understood. southern Europe water and clean cloth ing are so unbelievably scarce that con- ditions are ideal for the deadly cootie to do its work. But over here, the pub- Ne health e points out, soap and general und doctors—one doctor to 100,000 peo- sections. There is too little food and this has resulted in widespread war water are an institution, and as such | edema, pellagra. and other malnutrition are our best home protection against | d ses. There are no adequate quar- typhus. There are, despite soap con-|antine measures, so that smallpox and sumption on Saturday nights, cooties at | typhus patients in some places go utout large in this country, which shows that | spreading infection. There are inade- our boasted cleanliness is not all that | quate facilities for bathing and wasning it might be. But ours,are healthy | clothes, and new clothes are expensive cooties and so are comparatively harm-| ory not available at any price. ‘The 1 causes of European diseases are well enough known. It is the remedies that are lacking. ‘ If typhus, or any other war disease should break out in this country, it is believed that our government health or- ganizations and our comparatively ro- bust population would be strong enough to withstand the attack. At the same LYRIC The United States escaped the war cootie largely through the thoroughnes of the war department. Soldiers re- turned from Europe and their uniforms as well, were put through numerous purifying ceremonies, beginning in Bu- rope, continued on board the transports and intensified during debarkation and demobilization in this country. As a|- result, men just back from a disease- infested continent were scattered all over our country, and not a case of ty- phus. was ever reported as a result of their coming, The nearest home of the tynhus ear- rying cootie, and probably a more dan- rerous source than Europe, so far as Continuous the United States is concerned, is Mox- 1 p. m. to 11 p. m. ico. Revolutions in Mexico produce on A small scale a similar situation to that TODAY- which now exists in Europe. Fighting makes it necessary that soldiers concen First trate in camps and cause civilians to abandon normal living, thus creating conditions under which typhus spreads, The Mexican Menace. Frequent epidemics of ty.hus in Mex- ico are ja! constant source of worry to our border states. Seyeral thousand Mexicans cross and recross the line ev- ery month, and while health officials are at hand to “delouse’ them every time they come in, a few undoubtedly SHORTY HAMILTON “WHEN ARIZONA WON’ get over without this formality and pro- Next coed to the mining and lumber camps TWO-REEL COMEDY of the west carrying their cooties with Th | —— Then infected cooties, once set loose in a country, so distribute them- selves in trains, cars, theaters, arid homes that literally nobody is safe. Moreov: r nt figures show four out of i cases of epidemic typhus TOMORROW to be An. appreciation of these two facts will cause the citizen to agree | with the public health seryice and the war department that the typhus cootie cannot be too completely barred from immigration into the United States. Bubonie plague, the other main death- dealing 4 abroad, is more common HAROLD LLOYD in the United States than typhus: The plague is primarily a disease of rats, | eaught by them from fleas, carrying the “AN EASTERN infection. Many Mediterranean. ports > are now reported as being infected by | WESTERNER? rats suffering from plague. These in-|I iis Latest Million. Dollar fected rodents are carried from one country to anothr on ships, where they get ashore and start new outbreaks. Tf an infected flea gets on a human heing the disease is transmitted to him. In view of increased activity in. trade, the health officials are much worried over the prospects of ships carrying plague infected rats into our ports. Rat Distribution. It is estimated that there Is one rat y person in rodents do rhe world, but. the t seem to be equally dis tributed. w Orléans, for Instance, has more than its share, and, for six M has been fighting plague because For CO PLETE of them. In that time the campaign has ° destroyed over 1,300,000 rats jn that Automobile city. Of these, 496,537 were examined In laboratories and 353 were found to be infected. San Francisco also has carried on a war with rats and with ground squirrels, ‘The latter animals in addition to rats, are now known to be carriers of plague. ib Bubonic plague is not so dangerous @s typhus, the death rate beiig approx!- mately twenty-five per cent, but a simi- lar disease called pneumonic plague, re- 3. cently appeared in Manchuria with n Protection you should be protected financial loss— against It your car anyone, If-your car destroys or dam- Ages another's property. If your ce: is destroyed or damaged by collision. injures or kills @eath toll of ninety p cent. This 4. If your car is destroyed or @eadly compiai tacks the lungs and damaged by fire. is something lik influen: though it 5. If your car is stolen or dam- is an entirely different disease. 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Carey has appointed the fol- lowing notaries public: L. Cheyenne; T. T. There is a dearth of medical supplies | Virginia Anne Boyce, Casper: L. Hy Kline, L. ple is a conservative estimate in some | all of Powell. _—_———. Even a gay deceiver is better than a doleful deceiver, There are no reliable figures on the |RACCOON SHINES IN CALIFORNIA SOCIETY.—When Mra, Vivian Gordon, Asia ed ra oti RN Ga ae re: z ri ccasiarial social function, the little ani made such a ng from plague. Occasionally af Facoons are. thee! eipisian’ pete. adopted a raccoon as a pet for it, it started a new fed and now This one is shown enjoying afternoon t time it is just as well to remember that he mysterious flu carried over half a million Americans, and that the more hygienic and healthy a person is the less susceptible he is to invading germs. $< Minor Musings. |\* Human nature hasn't cianged much in two thousand years, but some peo- ple think they can change it over night. > Government operation of telegraph | NOTARIES RECOGNIZED. and telephone companies during the war created a deficit of more than fourteen million dollars. Thé only government institution a*Democratic administration can run without losing money on it is a mint. Cc. <Acord, Lieullen, Gillette; Mrs. R. 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ONHOMESTEATS ~~ IRESETFORTH Recent Government Bulletin Gives Explicit Information Regarding Credit for Military Serv- ice Regulations covering that part of the public resolution which gives to discharged soldiers, sailors and marines a preferred right of homestead entry showing the duration of the preterenc@| ; right period that the entry” must be made have ben sent out by the depart- ment of interior from Washington.- Rights extended by the public reso- lution cannot be supported by a soldier's declaratory statement- under the home- stead law but must be exercised thru an application to make homestead en- try. 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