TO PREVENT EPIDEMICS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 247, 8 July 1915, Page 7

TO PREVENT EPIDEMICS.

The c:;mpnTgn against tlie diseases 'Lilt I'.tlP.'-k soldiers has boon most su<~-.'i'.-.-n!-!. In the Franco-German War 7,000 German soldiers died from typhoid of 73,000 attacked; even as reI gently as the last Boor War we lost 5,000 of our soldiers from the same I cause —one caso out of seven proving | ratal. Tins appalling loss of life has j now been made impossible by inculnI L i o! with onti-typhoid' serum, the effect f rf which lias been strikingy illustrated !:u the United States Army. In ls!)s. i before inoculation was made compnl;sory, 2jVx: eases of typhoid fever resulted in 248 deaths; in 1911. after inoculation, there were only two ease. s ? and no deaths among nearly 13,000 men in Texas. Tetanus, too, one of the most terrible scourges to which man is liable, hun been similarly robbed of its terrors and langer by the discovery of a scram which destroys its microbes. Apart from hospital treatment, it is said, hundreds of French soldiers fighting tolay have been saved, from a death of agony by means of the anti-tetanus serum which they carry with them to battle, and which they themselves inert into their wounds when they are likely to become infected.