A Warning to Water Drinkers

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 15 November 1890, Page 2

A Warning to Water Drinkers

A summer seldom parses without I nttonliug sad instances of the danger j of holiday-making at foreign wateri iug plac- s it tlie pi'pcaution of thoroughly examining ilia water supply and sanitary arrangements of the 3'immei* residence is neglected. Within the last few weeks the family of a wellknowu member of the Stock Exdian-e, spending the summer holiday at a siaeide rosort on the nor h coast of France, has W«n visited by typhoid lever. One member has alread succii'nbed, and others are rep rted to be tm fieri ng from the disease. It is useless to take elab rate precaution--' at home if, when we go abroad in search of health and change, all precaution is th owu to the winds ; jvt this obvon i truth is too often neglected when selecting the place of summer holiday. Great impi- vements have l)een affected in the majority of English wutori m places, but much i'em..ins lo bo done lie;e also, and it would be well if th© plan of keeping for ihei form ition of i"t"ndiiK' visitorg a isL of houses <ud lodging-' inspected and app'-o'-d by sa lifary experts were more g -nerally followed. — British Medical ~JonnmL