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> . I ||)e JerolD anD Jems. VOL XLIV NO. 74. NEWBERRY, S. O.. TUESDAY' AUGUST 13. 190T. ' TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR CONSUMPTION TYPHOID PREVENTABLE DISEASES WITH PROPER SANITARY PRECAUTIONS. Address of Dr. C. T. Wyche on This Important Subject?Many Ladies Present. The County Medical Society held its meeting: in the Chamber of Commerce 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 present to hear the address of Dr. 0. T. Wyehe on typhoid fever, malarial fever and tuberculosis, all of which the doctors claim are preventable disk ea^es. The Herald and News gives a fairly full synopsis of the remarks of Dr. Wyehe and commends what he has to say to all of its readers. I'nftre is nothing of greater importance to the people of this community flm? j :e i... - tium 111 vii iiumiiii it HIi u i)y i aivuiji' u few precautions the diseases can be prevented, it is much better than to undertake to cure them. The following is the address of Dr. Wyehe: v Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 1 deem it proper in beginning ^ this discussion, to tell you why I am here. At the last meeting of the Medi cal Society it was decided that we should have a public meeting and invite the people here to hear the discussion on this subject, and I take as flattery that I have been selected to 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, T thought it would be a bad idea to invite the public, but after thinking about the tiling Dr. Mayer is correct, it was an / important matter to invite the ladies, >because the American eit.izon is 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 have a great deal of influence, but I want to say this, that T am glad to have yoxi with un today and I am glad to come here, because I have something to say to you and something that I r"1 want you to hear. T want to speak in , plain terms, so that you can understand what T say and mean, and I am r'\ going to speak so plain that anyone 1/ can understand. Typhoid fever is a disease, which is caused by micro-organs a bacillus, a living thing, which has a very peculiar 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 it is introduced into the system. Tf it falls upon suitable soil in the system it produces remarkable results. It multiplies. It is carried through the system by means of tho blood-vessels. ' It produces fever, rapid emaciation, ' great prostration and sometimes even death itself, by hemorrhage or exhaustion. Tt i" not my purpose to go into tvvA a discussion of all the changes, for T SB have not the time. Tf I were ablo to Mrliscuss that fully, I have not the kf Acinic, neither have you the patience Now, ladies, it is a fact that typhoid fever is produced by a disease germ. Does it not appear reasonable to you that man would try to keep that germ out of his system? Not every time does il cause typhoid fever. In order to produce fever, it must fall on suitable soil. Now I say that it is very important that the perm be killed. There are certain chemicals, which, wlion brought in contact with this germ, will destroy that germ so that it will not produce the fever no matter in what condition the system may be. An old lady once came to a Doctor and said: "Doctor that bug poison does not seem to get rid of the bugs." The doctor said to her, "I will tell you a great secret, how to administer the poison, you first catch that bug and pour the poison down his throat." I will now tell you where that bug lives and how he gets into your system?by drinking water that contains this disease germ or from taking food uopn which this germ may be located. If in a case of typhoid fever patients the foul water which passes from the bowels or the urin that passes from thf hlfwl<l?r Jc ?nt ...? A. AO HV/ll uicyiuiui^l" od to kill the disease germ, and this deseased matter or water is thrown out or spilled on the floor, it will live there indefinitely or stay there, and when taken into the human system will develop a case of typhoid fever. Now, ladies, I could give instance after instance where cities have been effected with typhoid fever in that way. 1 will give you an instance where typhoid fever was caused by milk. A few days ago Savannah developed about six hundred cases of typhoid fever and was telegraphing for trained nurses and experts. The experts told them that it was caused from drinking milk out of vessels which had been washed out with water and some of the water had been left in the vessel, and in that way this typhoid germ has gotton into the system of citizens in the city of Savannah, and there is said to be an epidemic there. Rumor reports this to be the case there, but I cannot certify as to the truth of it, but merely give it as an illustration. This i* Mm imi.il : .w lAtiv; 10 aiiuuit'l way. Suppose this urin is allowed to fell on the floor, or soil the bed clothing and remain there until it is dry, it may be deposited in drinking water by house flies. It is a known fact that laundresses for typhoid fever patients are liablae to take the disease and to carry the disease jyerm into other homes and thus spread the fever. Now, I don't think .any of usVarry the disinfectant far enough. The doctor says that everything oui?iit to be disinfected. Sometimes he does and sometimes he does not. It is not carried out Fully and possibly if you carry it out as it ous?h to be, your neighbor does not. In talking to a nurse she said her plan was this: In a case of typhoid fever she would place in rooms without a ?.< i>v> iii.iiuitTiiiin nu?j? i iic j.ioor Willi carbolic acid and turpentine and that the walls should be repainted. If I were to toll you ladies today that there was some poisonous reptile in Newberry that was working around in your home, there is not one but what would liyht a lamp and hunt for that reptile. Sure, you would. You would have this reptile hunted up, but everyone of you here has had in your midst and in the city of Newberry a more poisonous reptile than infested the country years atro. If that were the case, you would not rest quiet. Let me tell you what you are doinu*. We allow our loved ones to piny with these reptiles, lie down and sleep with them, exposed to danger from day to day without any protection. If reptiles wore there, we would not rest satisfied until the town was rid of them. There are two sides to this question. Do your own duty at home. You cannot hunt, out these germs and kill them yourself. The doctors cannot do it all. Every doctor may devote his life to it, hut he cannot do it, he must have the cooporationof the authorities of the town, and should have of the state, because you may keep your house ever so clean, might, destroy every germ, and your neighbor, through carelessness, expose you to ^ this disease. (i I had a little spell of it a few years e ago myself. It is in the atmosphere, s drinking water, etc. Now, our disinfecting is not thorough enough. Sup- n pose you heard that the town was full of these reptiles and a man would li chuuek a rock at them and kill a few, t the point is that you might see thnt t they are all killed. In iyp a>id fever v the disease germ is indicated in tho <1 way I have indicated and it t can he killed. A solution of bichloride e of mercury will destroy the disease d germ. a Now, ladies, there is another disease a that furnishes some of the saddest tra- li gedies of human life and that is tuber- li eulosis. It is a fact that if you begin a early to take care of the system, ex- t perts say that 75 per cent are curable, a Thousands have died ami thousands t more will die from this disease. These p being-s, who have the disease, are an- ii xious to protect others from it. h I knew a young man of great pro- e minence, bright intellect, bright fn- e ture, noble ambitious, educating hi* brother in school. In one hour he took a this disease and lingered at home in t despair as only a tuberculosis patient 1 can. He went to the far west to a a sanitorium. There he was treated. The t I'll t !11 mouuixr/i .>1 ?!...? 1 ...v. viuiiv m. i?im ( Iiai nc c must come homo, where he lingered c and died, lie said to me, "Doctor, 1 } a lady at Due West. She was told y don't want anybody to catch the hugs 11 from me." The other was a case of e that she had consumption. She shu* c herself up in her own room and refu*- fj e<l her own children admittance. Sin* t only allowed them to look at her <1 through the window panes. How that 11 mother must have suffered as she \ looked upon her children, what pain, 1 what sorrow when she knew that she 1 was slowly but surely fading away n from them. Why did she do that? 'I Her prayer was, '' O, God, let not my < children suffer my own sad fate." t When you have the disease, ought 1 you m>f to be anxious to protect oth- i ers from your fate? Now then, if that 1 be true, what can we do? We can kill t this disease germ. And ladies and t gentlemen, I want to say it before I 1 forget it, consumption is often started in the school room and when you C send your children there and the ehil- t dren are allowed to spit upon the \ floor, it will often result in consump- I tion; then, too the disense i? ? eon traded from drinking; milk from J a cow that has tuberculosis. Now, j the point that T wan,t to make is this, o that every room, every school house, v every hotel, every railroad station t ought to have a spi110011 upon tlie j floor with a disinfectant in it so that everybody could spit there whether s they had the germ or not. I am so i much wrapped up in the subject that t T am afraid 1 will consume too much c time. All persons are liable to lake tu- r berculosis. There is no such thing as t hereditary consumption, but those, A upon whom it finds a suitable soil to t exist developt the disease. Hut the u poitn that 1 want to impress upon you t is that a person who is liable to consumption should live as much as pos- t sil)le out doors. In other words, < should take as god care of themselves as possible. Malarial fever it has been demon- n at rated from experiments is caused s by the bite of mosquitoes, for in- v stance in Kgvpt they were deeply af- 1 fectwl U'llli mn ! ?' >! ....-1 ? - IV 1 V I til Ml ll.l' [\ mosquitoes. Those persons who liv- t ed fliore wore deeply interested and t formal a systematic plan to v eradicate the mosquitoes. They s closed up the places whore they wore | allowed to enter, cut down the weeds r on the hanks, o.te., made everybody \ pour all of the water in the house out of the drains so that it was all gotten | rid of, and put petroleum in there to i kill the jform. Now, ladies, there is a 1] peculiar thinjr about that certain kind of mosquito that jjfives you ma- n larial fever. In 1003 there was not a l( mosquito in the whole district. Three t years from that they had 2,000 cases of malarial fever. Men had tried it $ aj>ain and ajyain and* protected them- 0 selves by wire screens and been free from malarial fever. It does not like a we could kill it out at least, but we y cannot d > it. Another thinjr is this, n when a person jyoes into malarial dis- i; tri<-t, if he will protect himself ( against the mosr|uito, or take three | irrains of quinine every mornin<r, he <, will not be liable to take the disease. |i Quinine is an antidote for those dis- I uses, and il is a very desirable conideration. > 1 Now, ladies and gentlemen, many, t uany years ago there was a French- < nan, who said that men in the ear- } iesi dawn of civilization protected i hemsclves from the wild beasts of I he forests, and the time will come 5 Irlien me will no more die from these i trended diseases than they will from I lie bite from the wolves of the for- t *t. What can you dot You are not | oing your duty. If it was a reptile 1 fter you you would be hustling t round after the men asking them to 1 elp kill them. But you do not reaize the danger. The danger is here ( nd all over this country. Before T get ( hromrh 1 want you ladies sentiment | bout one thing. The doctors have ,s ried i?> educate the people. The pur- t >ose of this meeting is to educate you t n thirf way. If you ask the board of lealth to protect- you from these dis- ( ases. they cannot do it without mon- f y. Money almost moves the world, * Mnu' lorll Av-?. T unll , ?v . tv A A ..""I Miuiv.il 1 nil! lull vrni WIHU IS ( fact. The State Medical Associaion, at the last, session ol' the legis- t ftture, had a bill introduced to have t l man, an expert, who is capable of elling yon whether this reptile exist- i d in the water or not. This is a man t >f vast importance to yon, 1 think. t ionic of our wise statesmen say that 'on arc Irving; to put the country to v m expense, which is not necessary; it ] osts too much. Only $11,000 was nsk- > d. Some of the same men voted (15,000 to put a rciainim-' wn'l around < he state house, just beean-o the la- i lies of South Carolina got after them j. md said they must have a pretty , ard around the state house, and they } tad it. When $10,000 was given for ? he Calhoun monument there was not > i man who was afraid of the expense, riiev wont right at it. Tf South Car- | >lina would spend as much in trying j o protect the health of the citizens i iving here now as she is spending noney trying to get foreign laborers \ iere and thereby trying to increase he population, she would increase he population more by saving the i ives of our citizens. Pennsylvania has appropriated $1,- | 100.000 for the founding of a sani- j orinm for consumptives, with cheap i vooden houses for them to yi>| the t ?c ....i i > - * n in i n in tuiiMtir ;?ii" it ": lll(! latest ( ivatment for tubereulo.ns. And yet, .. Miulli Carolina, because it is an ex)onse. refuses to create -i health offi- ' 'er at 'ho salary of $3,000 a year, j vlien his sole object would he to pro- j ect you from the disease. Do you hink that is right? , An eminent physician, of Chicago, s avs we ought to have a department i) Washington for this purpose, and ; hen we would see tuberculosis drivn from our land. This disease is call- | 'd by many the ureal white plairne. m iiulies. are you willinsr to do nothing? , iVe can largely protect ourselves from ( his disease with the combined help ?f our physicians and by srovernmetial aid and by the help of nn intellifent people. Tf we can't have all of hat. we can do very little toward-, j 'outruling the disease. , The State Medical association have \ idvoeated the imnnrtaiwe of thi?= natter, and 1 introduced a hill for a \ tate bacteriologist to see if the germ t ras in the drinking water. How could I ic protect you that way? Let us learn j > lesson from the Japanese who saved j s lie lives of their citizens. They put I hose matters in the hands of experts, t rim had devoted their lives to the I v ithjeet. They sintplv did litis: tlipy s ml those in control, who wore exicr's and who had made a study of hill disease. What was the result? I ^ man was safer from an at lark of | vithoid fever in the Japanese army a luin in walking the streets of New- i iprry. Thev paid those men to do i hi*. and yon South Carolinians will s ever proteet yourselves and your >ved ones until you do the same < hincr. ?' Ai?" you wi Miner that your money \ hou! \ *;e spent to protect the health f others? Are you willing to do it? r I am iroinif to make a proposition t ltd see how you stand, and know t ,hether you are willinu for your ,ri toney to he spent to pro4.pet your eit- < w?ns. and if you are williittr for South | 'arolina to spend money to protect s lie health of her citizens. All who ;i re in favor of that, hold up your I and. Well, 1 see most of the ladies < < lave their hands up. I wish to say in conclusion. J lave tried to explain to you severa hinus. and 1 do not expect you to roc tiled everything 1 said, hut I wan rou to remember that typhoid fevei s a preventable disease and recoiled hat when you hear somebody ii Mtuth Carolina has tuberculosis thai s a preventable disease, and wliei housands die with it, as they will hat tuberculosis, typhoid fever an jreventable diseases and somebody ia? neglected to do their duty. Am he same thing applies to malaria lever. I want you ladies to bring to pasi he 'beautiful dream of the French nan?that the time will come wliei nan will no more die from tuberculo is, small pox, typhoid fever, malaria 'ever, etc., than he will from the bit( >f the wild wolves of the forest. 1 am going to tell the state boart >f health that the ladies of Newhern ire willing for (heir money to b< ipen.t to protect the people from thes< liseases. i ii ... - > mum mill II1C >|>r?SS Will ill) SOI11C hinj*- in disseminating- in formation t< hi; people. Ladies, 1 thank you I'or the vol* /ou have given tne here Unlay. It i i credit to you. You have shown j nore intelligent comprehension of tli iuhjee.t than the legislature. I an sorry to say Hint for the legislature jadics and gentlemen 1 thank you l'o four attention. Dr. llonscal discussed the suhjee >1' malarial fever, describing- the ami nicies mosquito, its habits ami how ti ret rid of it. The different kinds o nosquiloes and what the Unitoi States government had done by rid ling- llavanna of the fever, lie als >poke of how to rid the cities of tli yellow fever mosquito and at the sain time how to rid the cities of malaria fever, or destroying- al of the mosqui oes. lie said that we ought to hav i law making- it a misdemeanor to fin< viggles on their premises. Dr. Mayer said that the anophele ?- malarial mosquito did its work a light. He also discussed tuborculosi mhI said il was not hereditary, am hat it was contracted by the spit11 ti the house, where the sunlight eouli lot get to it. That when you spit oi he streets the sunlight will kill tli lisease norm in three mi.mtf* Ti.? uinliyht was a j?reat jrerm dostroyei ! said that people should not pit dinds to (heir houses, that espeeiall, >atieuts with consumption sliouh lave sunshine. Dr. Kibler spoke on the edueatioi >!' the public up to the importance o lauitary rides. There was ureal op o.it ion to this even amonir the nuts ntclliucnt people. They then passed some resolution; )r. Mayer (d'l'ered a resolution tlia dewberry County Medical society en lorse the etl'ort to establish a hospi al in the city of Newberry, whicl as uiianimoiisly adopted. Farmers Get Ready. From all over South Carolina come nquiry about how to proceed to >re ip a Farmers Union and all about thi vork of the Farmers Cnion? In answer to all those (piestion; vill say that the tirst step is to ire 'it'teen uood rarmers together read; o be organized, then write to tin >tate Secretary. I?. I*1. Karlc. Ander on. S. ('.. and yet instructions am iteraturc irivimr all instructions a o how to proceed to orirnnize am vhen an organizer can be -cut to youi ..! .1... Do Not Forget This. That :il all places when- Fanner; '11i?>11 speakers arc In address tlx ?eople, that I lie people at these |??1 a?* ?' re <?x|><?< !imI to advertise these meet Hit's and make all local arrangement! u suit themselves, ami to meet the peakers at the railroad. In our travels over the slate th< hecrini'- si;?ht of the finest corn crops vcr seen in the state greets the tra eler in nearly every section. Fortified with fine corn and fe.v rops and entrenched behind over on< housand cotton warehouses and in reasinvr our uieinbership at an aver i<re of more than three thousand per lay, the Farmers Fnion justly feel: iroud of its -jrand success. Fanners tand firm to your original principle: ind yuard against the influence o he wily demauoyue politician and tin leinayoyue newspaper, and a0! tin -cotton bears on earth cannot climb . [ over or dig under your fences. 1 The Fanners Kall.v Meeting of . Oconcc County, South Carolina, to t come off at Oakwav near Seneca on L< the 21st of August bids fair to be tlie t largest gathering of fanners in that i section in years. I The speaker on that occasion will \ be fresh from the ileltl and in good , shape to tell the people about the > errand campaign of the Farmors Union all over the south and especially I about what has been done in South I Carolina and Georgia. Two of the worst enemies of the 5 Fanners Union that we are now up to . i? the demagogue in our ranks and , some inconsistent newspaper men on . the outside that are at it all the while I warning the Fanners Union of the > dangererous demagogue and at the same time advocating the importaj tion of low grade immigrants for the , use of cotton mills. Now it does look ? like any man with even ordinary in; telligence should know that this low grade immigrant class of people are _ the very best supporters of demago) guery on the face of the earth. Ilonca we warn the Union against the influL? enee either the demagogue politician ^ i or these uv n^|?a|iur muu? One or these is as dangerous a leader as the other is. |( There is some significance about , lbis continual harping about the atlilialion of I lie Warmers' I'nion with (lie Federation ol' Labor and the do( asagogue that ?macks ol' pulre rot ^ when it is known that these same newspapers have always opposed far? mers organizations and entered to the I interest ol* corporations. Whereas The population of these , United States of America is being constantly, rapidly and as we think I most unweleomelv increased by an overwhelming tide of foreign immigration largely of paupers, criminals, ^ and otherwise undersirable immigrants; and. Whereas Seeing the strenuous ef^ forts being made by some of the southern states to encourage the forj eigners to come into this southland of ours and viewing such efforts with j alarm and great disfavor, that wo ti join in the great battle cry, abolish foreign immigration; and, e j Whereas Seeing that a large part of the troubles and disturbances in | this country arise from foreign ideas promulgated by the foreign element j of our population, politically, socially, religiously or otherwise ami that before we were alYli'dod with it j, hordes of criminal, and reckless foreigners, lockouts st?ciali>m, anarcliy j ;iinl many oilier evils were practised very little if' any; and, Whereas we I'eel and know that w<; ' have the purest and highest type of Anyln-Saxiin eivili/.alion on earlh ! here in the southern slates and earn, esllv desirinir to keep it such at least. Il "... here in this bnnht, sunny South Carolina of ours; and. Whereas we feel and know, with the accursed juif trallie lliat I he KxI press companies are foslcrintr upon our people and minim? so many of our younii- men and older ones too. With the Sahhath breakim/ foreign am ' mixed with a class of low, degraded I Sunday drinking hoys for them to mix with would make darkest Africa '! blush. I I Si. Resole thai we ar determin. j ed thai as far as in our power lies 1<> J ke.^p our splendid inheritance for ourselves, mir children and our children's children and strive to belter fit and prepare them for the daily avocation .iDi lire anil citizenship. 12ml. Thai we the Bishop Branch } Local No. 'JS dC Anderson county FarImcrs' Kiluca I ional ami Cooperative . M'nion o|' America are unalterably ir? , revocably opposed to I'oreiyn iminiJuration of any kind ami in anv nian, ncr whatever ami il' I hoy do come . ; with their own accord lot them prove ' themselves hv making jf"od eiti/.ons. | Kespt. submitted, ,i A. H. Mitchell, Chairman Committee. _} Above resolution adopted by U.i_ | ion and ordered published . (I. W. Oaillard, Sec. Thought Dispensed With. I Milwaukee Sentinel. I' The present . overnor of North Car, i rdina i- a teetotaler. Hut he inijfht say ^'to the trovcrnot of South Carolina: i "It's a lony time beteowu lliiuka."