Disease in Closed Houses.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 192, 19 February 1887, Page 8

Disease in Closed Houses.

Some of the most eminent physicians of Montreal say that a great many women and children have been attacked after their ieturn from their Bummer rests whether at the seaside or inland, with typhoid and malarial fevers and diphtheria. There are many such cases in which the patients are in imminent peril at present. The origin of these diseases is a mystery even to medical experts, as those who are suffering reside in well-sewered and properly ventilated houses. A prominent surgeon, when asked hie opinion of the cauee, could attribute it to nothing but shutting up the houses while the residents wero absent, thereby making the interiors damp and unwholesome. Many parents have had the affliction of losing children, some two or three, by the fatal epidemic of diphtheria* which has never beon so prevaiont as this year. Typhoid fever has aleo beon greatly on the increase. If closed houees breed disease, may not closed rooms in occupied houses do the game ? There is no doubt ot it ; and tbei?e cloaed rooms may very frequently give rise to diseased whose origin puzzles us