The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, August 13, 1907, Image 1
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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
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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
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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 :
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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> 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
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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.
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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."