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VOL XLIV I*TO. 74. NEWBERRY, S. 0., TUESDAY' AUGUST 13, 1907. TWIOE AWEEK.$1.50 A YEAR CONSUfPTION TYPHOID PREVENTABLE DISEASES WITH PROPER SANITARY PRE CAUTIONS. Address of Dr. C. T. Wyche on This Important Subject-Many Ladies - Present. The County Medical Society held its meeting in the Chamber of Com meree rooms on last Friday morning, DR. C. T. WYCHE. as had been announced. This being a public meeting, a good many ladies took advantage of the invitation, which was extended, and were pres ent to hear the address of Dr. C. T. Wyche on typhoid fever, malarial fever and tuberculosis, all of whiel the doetors claim are preventable dis eases. The Herald and News gives a fair ly full synopsis of ~the remarks of Dr. Wy&-and eommends what he has to say to all of its readers. Tnre is nothing of greater import. anee to the people of this community than their health, an4 if by taking a few precautions the diseases can be prevented, it is mueh better than 'to undertake to cure them. The following is the address of Dr. Wyehe: Mr. President, Ladies and Gentle men: I deem it proper in beginning this diserssion, to tell you why I an here. At .nie last meeting of the Medi eal Society it was decided that we should have a publie meeting and in vite the people here to hear the dis 4usson on this subject, and I take .as flattery tha~t I have been selected te open a discussion on so important a subject, but the subject was limited to typhoid fever, tuberculosis and malarial fever. Now, in speaking on this subject: when it was first mentioned, I thought it would be a bad idea .to invite the public, but after thinking about the thing Dr. Mayer is correct, it was ar important matter to invite the ladies: ~because the American citizen is se -much engaged in the rush after the almighty dollar that he thinks of very little else, and the ladies do think of something else. Ladies could hav( .a great deal of influence, but I want to say this, that I am glad to have you with us today and I am glad t( come here, because I have something to say .o you and something that ] want you to hear. I want to speak it plain terms, so that you can under stand what I say and mean, and I an going to speak so plain that anyone can understand. -Typhoid fever is a disease, whiei is caused by micro-organs a bacillus a living thing, which has a very pe euliar nature. This disease germ, as it is so called, has a peculiar nature so with other germs. This germ or bacillus will live in a dormant or quiescent state until ii is introduced into the system. If il f ails upon suitable soil in the systen it produces remarkable results. Il multiplies. It is carried through the system by means of the blood-vessels It produces fever, ra pid emaciastion great prostration and sometimes ever death itself, by hemorrhage or exhaus tion. It is not my purpose to go intt a discussion of all the ehanges, for1 ave not the time. If I were able tc iseuss that fully, I have not the me. neither have you the patiencE hear it. Now, ladies, it is a fact that typhoid this fever is produced by a disease germ. I Does it not appear reasonable to you ag,o that man would try to keep that germ dir out of his system ? Not every time feet does it cause typhoid fever. In order posi to produce fever, it must fall on suit- of able soil. Now I say that it is very chu important that the germ be killed. the There are certain chemicals, which, the: when brought in contact -with this the germ, will destroy that germ so that way it will not produce the fever no mat- ean ter in what condition the system may of be. ger An old lady once came to a Doctor t and said: "Doctor that bug poison tha does not seem to get rid of the bugs.,, ged The doctoi said to her, "I will tell cuI you a great secret, how to administer ear the poison, you first catch that bug per and pour the poison down his Tho throat. MO I will now tell you where that bug be lives and how 'he gets into your sys tem-by drinking .water that contains . this disease germ or from taking ur food uopn which this germ may be lo- tr cated. If in a case of typhoid fever this patients the foul water whih passes thi from the b6wels or the urin thit pas- des ses from the bladder is not disinfect- ca ed to kill the disease germ, and this sn deseased matter or water is thrown fat out or spilled on the floor, it will live mu there indefinitely or stay there, and an when taken into the human system dor will develop a case of typhoid fever. Now, ladies, I could give instance af- fro ter instance where cities have been tha effected with typhoid fever in that her way. I will give you an instanee where onl typhoid fever was caused by milk. thp A few days ago Savannah developed mo about six hundred cases of typhoid 100 fever and was telegraphing for train- wh ed nurses and experts. Tie experts wa told them that it was caused from fro drinking milk out of vessels whi,h had been washed out with water and chi] some of the water had been left in the vessel, and in that way this ty- yoU phoid germ lias gotton into the system ers of citizens in the city of Savannah, . and there is said to be an epidemic th there. Rumor reports this to be the e case there, but I cannot certify as to for the truth -of it, but merely give it as ed an illustration. se This is the point. Here is another dr way. Suppose this urin is allowed to . fikli on the floor, or soil the bed tio lothing and remain there until it is ** dry, it may be deposited in drinking th water aby house flies. It is a known th fact that laundresses for typhoid- fey- tha er patients are liablae to take the dis- eve ease and to carry the disease germ oug into other homes and thus spread the o fever, eve te Now, I don't think .any of us'carry t the disinfeetant far enough. The doc- mu tor says that everything ought to be I. a disinfected. Sometimes he does and tim sometimes he does not. It h is not carried out fully and pos her sibly if you carry it out as it ough'; ulp to be, your neighbor does not. In exi talking to a nurse she said her plan poi was this: In a case of typhoid fever is I she would place in rooms without a sun earpet disinfectant mop the floor with sib carbolic acid and turpentine and that sho the walls should be repainted. If I as were to tell you ladies today that there 'a was some poisonous reptile in New- strn berry that was working around in by I our home, there is not one but what stai would light a lamp and hunt for that feci reptile. Sure. you would. You would mos have this reptile hunted up, but ev- ed eryone of you here has had in your fora midst and in the city of Newberry a 1era more poisonous reptile than infested clos the country years ago. If that were alle the ease, you would not rest quiet. onl Let me 'tell you what you are doing. pou W/e allow our loved ones to play with of1 these reptiles, lie down and sleep rid with them. exposed to danger from kill day to day wit.hout any protection. If pee reptiles were there, we would not rest kin satisfied until the town was rid of lari them. .moi There are two sides to this question. yea Do your own duty at home. You -can- -of not hunt, out these germs and kill jaga them yourself. The doctors cannot selP do it all. Every doctor may devote fro: his life to it, but he cannot do it, he we must have the cooporation of the auth- c-an orities of the town, and should have of wha the state, because you may keep your tric house ever so clean, might destroy age every germ, and your neighbor, gr thrug caelesness, expose you to wil disease. had a little spell of it a few years myself. It is in the atmosphere, iking water. etc. Now, our disin ing is not thorough enough. Sup you heard that the town was ful! these .reptiles and a man would nck a rock at them and kill a few, poir.' 'is that you might see that 7 are all. killed. In typhoid fever disease germ is indicated in the I have indicated t- and iA be killed. A solution of bichloride mercury will destroy the diseaige n. ow, ladies, there is another disease : furnishes some of the saddest tra ies of human life and that is tuber sis. It is a fact that if you begin y to take care of the system, ex s say that 75 per cent are curable. usands have died and thousands e will die from this disease. These igs, who have the disease, are an is to protect others from it. knew a young man of great pro ence, bright intellect, bright fu , noble ambitious, educating his ther in school. In one hour he took disease and lingered at home in pair as only a tuberculosis patient . He went to the far west to a itorium. There he was treated. The il message came at last that he t come home, where he lingered died. He said to me, "Doctor, I dy at Due West. She was told .'t want anybody to catch the bugs a me." The other was a case of t she had consumption. She shut self up in her own room and refu; her own children admittance. She y allowed them to look at her )ugh the window panes. How that :her must have suffered as she ed upon her children, what pain, tt sorrow when she knew that she slowly but surely fading away n them. Why did she do that! - prayer was, "0, God, let not my dren suffer my own sad fate." Fhen you have the disease, ought no to be anxious to protect oth from your fate? Now then, it that. true, what can w6 do? We can kill disease germ. And ladies and tlemen, I want to say it before I et it, eonsumption is often start in the school room and when you d your children there and the chil n are allowed .to spit upon the >r, it will often result in consump i; then, too the disease is often trated from drinking milk from ow that . has tuberculosis. Now, point that I want to make is this, t every room, every school house, ry hotel, every railroad station -ht to have a spittoon upon the >r with a disinfectant in it so that ryody could spit there whether y had the germ or not. I am so ah wrapped up in the subject that i afraid I will consum'e too much e. All persons are liable to take tu eulosis. There is no such thing as editary consumption, but those, an whom it finds a suitalble soil to ;t developt the disease. But the n that I want to impress upon you hat' a person who is liaible to coui iption should live as much as pos e out doors.- In other w,ords, uld take as god care of themselves possible... alarial few-er it has been- demon ted from experiments is caused* the 'bite of mosquitoes, foi- in 1e in Egypt they were deeply af ted with malarial fever and the squitoes. Those persons who liv there were deeply interested and al a systematic plan to dicate the mosquitoes. They ;ed up the places where they were wed to enter, cut down the weeds the banks, etc., made everybody r all of the wvater in the house out :he drains so that it was all gotten of, and put petroleum in there to the germ. Now, ladies, there is a uliar thing about that certain d of mosquito that gives you ma .al fever. In 1903 there was not a ~quito in the whole district. Three rs from that they had 2,900 cases malarial fever. Men had tried it in and again andsprotected them es by wire screens and been free m malarial fever. It does not like could kill it out at least, but we not da it. Another thing is this, m a person goes into malarial dis -t, if he will protect himself inst the mosquito, or take three ins of quinine every mornin g,he I no b.e liable to take the disease. Quinine is an antidote for these d eases, and it is a very desirable ci sideration. Now, ladies and gentlemen, mai many years ago there was a Fren, man, who said that men in the e liest dawn of civilization proteel themselves from the wild beasts ihe forests, and the time will eo when me will no more die from th dread4d diseases than they will fr ihe bite from the wolves of the f et. What can you do ? You are i doing your duty. If it was a repl after you you would be hustli around after the men asking them hel# kill them. But you do not r lize the' danger. The danger is h and all over this country. Before I, through I want you ladies sentimi about one thing. The doctors hs tried to educate the people. The p pose of this meet. is to educate 3 in this way. If you ask the board health to protect you from these i eases, they cannot do it without m, ey. Money almost moves the worl Now, ladies. I will tell you whal a fact. The State Medical Asso tion, at the last session of the le lature, had a bill introduced to hi a man, an -expert, who is capable telling you whether this reptile ei ed in the water or not. This is a n of, vast importance -to you, I thi Some of our wise statesmen say t] you are trying to put the country an expense, which is not necessary costs too much. Only $3,000 was a ed. Some of the same men vo $15,000 to put a retainintr wall aroi the state house, just because the dies of South Carolina got after tb and said they must have a pre yard around the state house, and tl had it. When $10,000 was given the Calhoun monument there was a man who was afraid of the expex They went right at it. If South ( olina would spend as much in try to prot6et the health of the citiz living here now as she is spend money trying to get foreign labot here and thereby trying to inere the populatiozi, she would inere the population n;ore by saving lives of our citizens. Pennsylvania has appropriated 000,000 for th founding of a s2 torium for consumptives, with ehi wooden houses for them to get benefit of outside air anrl the lai treatment for tubercuo0-s. And i South Carolina, because it is an pense, refuses to create a health< cer at the salary of $3,000 a y4 when his sole object would lbe to ; tet you from the disease. Do: think that is right? An eminknt physician, of Chies sas we oneht to have a departm in Washington for this purpose, then we would see tuberculosis di en from our land. This diseas'e is c ed by many the dieat white plag Ladies, are you willing to do nothil We can largely .protect ourselves fi this disease with the combined b of our physicians and by!lgovernm tal aid and by the help of an inte gent people. If we can't have all that, we can do very little towa controling the disease. The State Medical a'ssociation h advocated the importane~ of I matter, and I introduced a bill fo state bacteriologist to see if the g( was in the drinking water. How co he protect you that way?i Let us le a lesson from the Japanese who sa' the lives of their citizens. They: those matters in the hands of expe who had devoted their lives to subject. They simply did this: t1 put those in control, who were perts and who had made a study that disease. What was the rest A man was safer from an attack tphoid fever in the Japanese at than in walking the streets of Ni jerry. They paid those men to -hi. and you South Caroliniansa never protect yourselves and y' loved ones until you. do the se thing. Are you willing that your moi shou1M he spent to protect the her of others? Are you willing .to do I am going to make a proposit and see how you stand, and kt whether you are willing for y money to be spent to protect your izen, and if you are willing for So Carolina to spend money to prol the health of her citizens. All 3 are in favor of that, hold up y nd. Well T ee most of the lat is- have their hands up. )n- I wish to say in conclusion. I have tried to explain to you several 1y, things, and I do not expect you to rec -h- olleet everything I said, bnt I want ir- you to remember that typhoid fever ;ed is a preventable disease end, recollect of that when you hear somebody in me South Carolina has tuberculosis that ase is a preventable disease, and when )m thousands die with it, as they will, )r- that tuberculosis, typhoid fever are iot preventable diseases and somebody ile has neglected to do their duty. And ng the same thing applies to malarial to fever. aa- I want you ladies to bring to pass ire the beautiful dream of the French ,et man-that the time will come when nt man will no more die from tuberculo ve sis, small pox typhoid fever, malarial "r- fever, etc., than he will from the bite Ou of the wild wolves of the forest. of I am going to tell the state board is- of health that the ladies of Newberry M- are willing for their money to be : spent to protect the people from these is diseases. ia- I think that the .press will do some ,s- thing in disseminating in formation to Lve the people. of Ladies, I thank you for the vote st- you have given me here today. It is an a credit to you.. You have shown a Eik- more intelligent comprehension of the iat subject than the legislature. I am to sorry to say that for the legislature. it Ladies and gentlemen I thank you for sk- your attention. ted Dr. Houseal discussed the subject md of malarial fever, describing the ano la- pheles mosquito, its habits and how to em,- get rid of it. The different kinds of tty mosquitoes and what tWle United iey States government had done by rid for ding Havanne of the fever. He also 3ot spoke of how to rid the cities of the ise- yellow fever mosquito and at thesame ar- time how th rid the cities of malarial ing fever, or destroying al of the mosqui m's toes. He said that we ought to have ing a law making it a misdemeanor to.find ers wiggles on their premises. ase Dr. Mayer said that the anopheles ase -) malarial mosquito did its work at the night. He also discussed tuberculosis vid -said it was not hereditary, and ;I,- that it was contracted by the spittle ni- in- the house, where the sunlight could ap not get to it. That when you spit on the the streets the sunlight will kill the est disease germ in three minutes. That ret, sunlight was a great germ destroyer ex- RIe said that people should not put fin- blinds to their houses, that especially ar. patients with consumption should ro- have sunshine. rou Dr. Kibler spoke on the education of the public up to the importance of go. sanitary rules. There was great op. ent osition to this even among the most md intelligent people. iv- They then passed some resolutions. all- Dr. Mayer offered a resolution that -te. Newberry County Medical society en 13 ? dorse the effort to establish a hospi. 'om tal in the city of Newberry, which elp ras unanimously adopted. en--___________ 111- Farmers Get Ready. of From all over South Carolina comes rds inquiry about how to proceed to get up~ a Farmers Union and all about the ve work of the Farmers Union? his In answer to all these questions e a will say that the first step is to get irm fifteen good .farmers together ready ald to be organized, then write to the rn State Secretary, B. F. Earle, Ander. red son, S. C., and get instructions and ut literature giving all instructions as s, to how to proceed to organize and the when an organizer can be sent'to your iey section~of the state. ex- Do Not Forget This. of That at all places where Farmers It? Union speakers are to address the of people, that the people at these pdae my are expected to advertise these meet iw- ings and make all local arrangements do to suit themselves, and to meet the ill speakers at the railroad. >ur In our travels over the state the me cheering sight of the finest corn crops ever seen in the state greets the tra. 1ey veler in nearly every section. Ith Fortified with fine corn and feed it? crops and entrenched behind over one ion thousand cotton warehouses and in tow creasing our membership at an aver ar age of more than three thousand per. eit- day, the Farmers Union justly feel ith proud of its grand success. Farmers, :eet stand firm to your original principles who and guard against the influence of our the wily demagogue politician and the te deaoguen newsdlaper, and all the cotton bears on earth cannot climb over or dig under your fences. The Farmers Rally Meeting of Oconee County, South Carolina, to come off at Oakway near Seneca on the 21st of August'bids fair to be the largest gathering of farmers in that section in years. The speaker on that occasion will be fresh from the field and in good shape to tell the people about , th grand campaign of the Farmers Un ion all over the south and especially about what has been done in South Carolina and Georgia. Two of the worst enemies of the Farmers Union that we are now up to is the demagogue im our ranks and some inconsistent newpaper'men on the outside that are at it all:the while warning the Farmers Union of the dangererous demagogue and at the same time advocating the imports tion of low grade immigrantsfor the use of cotton mills. Now it does look likm any man with even or&nary in. telligence should know that this loy grade immigrant class of people a*e the very best supporters of demago guery on the face of the earth.Heno we warn the Union against the influ ence either the demagogue politiisn or these demagogue newspaper men. One of these is as dangerous a lead. er as the other is. There is some signifiance about this continual harping about the afd. liation of the Farmers' Union with the Federation of Labor dnd the de - ngogue that smacks of puke rot when it is known that these same newspapers have always opposed far. mers orgaizations and catered to the interest of corporations. Whereas The population of these tnited States of America is being constantly, rapidly and as we thinf* most unwelcomely inmereased by an overwhelming tide of foreign immi gration largely of paupers, criminals, and otherwise undersirable immi grants; and, Whereas Seeing the strenuous ef forts being made by some of the southern states to encourage .the for eigners to come into this southland of ours and viewing sudh efforts with alarm and great disfavor, that we join in the great battle cry, abolish foreign. immigration; and, Whereas Seeing that a large part of the troubles and disturbances in. this country arise from foreign ideas promulgated by the foreignr element of odr population, politically, socially, religiously or otherwise and that be &lere we were a~ted , with' l6h hordes of criminal, and reekless for eigners, lockouts socialism, anarchy and many other evils were practised very little if any; and, Whereas we feel and know that we have the purest and highest type of Anglo-Saxon civilization on earth here in the southern states and earn estly'desiring to keep it such at least - here in this bright, sunny South Car olina of ours; and, Whereas we feel and know, with the accursed jug' trafic that the Ex press companies are fostering iupon our people and ruining so many of our- young men and 'older ones too. IWith the Sabbath breaking foreignars Imixed with'a class of low, degraded Sunday drinking boys for them to mix with would make darkest Afriea blush. 1st. Resole that we ar determin ed that as far as in our power lies to keep our splendid inheritance for our selves, our children and our children's children and strive to better fit and prepare them for the daily avocation of life and eitizenship. 2nd. That we the Bishop Branch Loeal No. 28 of Anderson county Far mers' Educational and Cooperative Union of America ~are unalterably ir revocably opposed to foreign imlmi gration of any kind and in any man ner whatever and if they do come with their own accord let them prove themselves by making good citizens. Respt. submitted, A. H. Mitchell, Chairman Committee. Above resolution adopted by Ua lion and ordered published. G. W. Gaillard, Se Thought Dispensed With. Milwaukee Sentinel. The present governor of North Car olina is a teetotaler. But he might say to the governor of South Carolina: "It's a lng time beteewn thinks."