A WARNING!

Evening Star, Issue 3383, 23 December 1873, Page 3

A WARNING!

A very singular discovery Las been made in a London hospital. The impot«ncy of London milk had been fabulous since the da>s when Micawber disputed hia score for that necessary article, a number of the inhabitants of rich Porttnan Square have been taken ill. A number of poor people in the same locality have succumbed to what appeared to be an increasing endemic—typhoid fever. The poor were taken to the hospital. After much investigation the doctors found that death had taken up hia abode for the time, being in the cream jug. Inquiries were set on foot, and it was found that all the milk which had come out of the cream jugs in that locality was dispensed by one large dairy. People said how dangerous it was to keep cows in the heart of the metropolis. But this dairyman kept no cows. Cn the contrary, he got his milk from a very prosperous farm some fifty miles from Loudon, -traight went the doctors to the farm, and there they made the discovery that one or two farm laborers had died of typhoid fever. But the milk was the malignant cause of the lisease in London. So much was certain beyond all possibility of dispute. There mutt be something in the farm—in the grass, in the hedges, in the cowhouses, or in the stables, which spread the virus which caused the disease. The pest spot was soon dis covered. A ditoh ran by the farm ya>d, into which the farm offices discharged themselves. <)id the ditch contaminate the grass that the cows ate, or did it contaminate the milk in the dairy ? Perhaps it did a little both ways, It is well to be warned in time. Effective Irainage is a necessary condition of life in owns, and this cannot bo had without water mpply. A word to the wise will surely be .luiiicient.