TYPHOID FEVER.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 608, 13 April 1876, Page 2

TYPHOID FEVER.

The prevalence of this fever intho Waikuto, the fatal results which have attended many case*., and the fact that the di^east has hiuicr about the same locality in which tfc originated so long ,i time render it dosirable thru, we should touch generally uptm the causes and means by which typhoid fp\er is reproduced ana piopa^.tte.l Typhoid or t'nieriu fevev ia mor<> common at this (season of the year than, any othci and hnsbeen more prevalent and fatal thh year than for many past. As we static* the other day fhe danger from infection i*. slijjht, and where such appears to have occurred it is because those taking the fever, apparently from the patient, hove been lubjected to the same unhealthy influeuces, and have bean predisposed by the itute of their system to receive the poison of the disease into their blood. Typhoid — unlike typhus which is highly infectious over a limited space, 'by -the exhalations thrown off from the skin and from the breath, ot the patient — is essentially an eruptive disease of the lining membrane of the intestines ; » sort of small pox which affects the bowels instead of the Hkin, and likesome other eruptive diseaises, it« destiny is to run a definite course ovoi a certain time. It is spretd abroad chiefly and probably exclusively 1 by the discharges from the intestines. In towns these (inu 1 their way into cesspools and seweis, and thua poison the air we breathe and tin water we drink. In eouatry plnces such as this" they may or may not find theii way even in intiniteasimal portions to the sources of water supply, but are sure in mokt oa«84 to be placed where they -vill pollute the atmosphere. It iy thus, doubtless, ho.v it bus hung about certain lmrai orratiou barrncks in this part of th' ijountry for many montliß past, now nc:ir Iv a year. The fe\or is reproduced maivih in three ways — first, by the. pois mcd sew •ige obtaining direct access to drinkinc water, by leakage or soaking, and so beini. swallowed ; secondly, by the poisoned g.iescaping from sewers into water m tins 01 cisterns, so tlißt it is absorbed or (Hs^olvei by the water, and so swallowed ; thirdly by the poisoned gas making' its w.n through badly tapped drains or othei chnnm'jlH into dwel'inc; or sleeping room 1 -, and so being bre-ith^d )<y Lite occupani •* To o«e 01 other of these r nelho Is ot difl'u -,iou every outbreak of t*[»hoid tVvor ru.v> be lef erred. Ui»nco t^> tiling .i'> m<inite.st — !ii^t, that typi<»iii ft\t-riB vrn little iiiA'Cti.nis m the oi\lin»r\ s"iisi j , c thiouufh the iitnxtspheie whicii su roun' ; the patient ; Hicmidly, that it is aoi ; actively infectious ilhuulli cvMicotiifi channels of ludefinil « lergth or tortuous arms. There ure few Tiilagen in wliic ihere is not continued aoakiug^lVum ccm pools to wells, but this «mk«ii»e in hkewis "qua" typlioid — harmless until the sppciii rnati rim is HiipphciL When thft fi'Vei appenrp, tho only question is, pructic vl!; epojkiuij, how and when did the snffoivi drink water tvhicii was contaminated bj typhoid tainted sewage, or brcatho an mixed with the typhoid-tainted, exhal.itionfrom putrescfut fcypboid intestniu) clis diaries. Typhoid may bo assumed, fora! practical purpose, to .spring only Iron antecedent typhoid, andtooome only b; fho p.ith of sowage pollution. It follows thnt the form of cUyuilinP'B which can" bo effcotu.il against, typhoid h.i^ reference only to the iateatinal diioluir^o . The typhoid patient is harmless, escej" Mirough this ain/le medium ; and if I 1I 1 « poisouoii'i ch.iractdr of tho di;scharg:;s w<ia in all ca«es destroyed bv chomic-il ago i s before they were cast away, the disfai* would speedily, as far as our [ireiont knowledge of its nature enables us to predict, disappear out of tho land. Tho next be^t and perhaps simplest plan is to Ui>o that great chemical laboratory — the soil, und bury doopty and »t once, where danger oi soakage ueed not, bo exfiected, that which 1 alone is the active agoucy of the spread oi the disease.

C*OWBjtd otrr. — Th» letters of oar Vg«rnaw»bi» Correspondent, "Ono who h»d to go horn«," Bwamp-h«n, and others ire aaaroidftbly hold over.

Gambridsi CiVALBT. — Ifc will b« ioen by »dvertnement that the next drill will ttko place on the tenth of M*j next.

Ta Awaitotu. — Erenmg Mrrica will be held in 8t John'i, Te Awarnnta to-morrow (on Qooj Friday), at 6 30 p m.

FooiiixL. — To Awamutu tickisti will do well to attend * meeting anent tho formation of a olub in that district, to bo held on Tuesday •Ttning next *t the Pablio H»\l, Te Awnumtn.

Tub Suks akd Satins o» tub Trow.— M Q-wjnn* hat now on rieyr, at the Hamilton Hottl, two of Herring* celebrated iportiug icen«i. Thej are wall worth inspecting.

Catholic Sirticis ok Good Fbidjlt. — There will bo devotions in the Catholic Oliuroh, Hamilton Butti to-morrow ironing, commencing tt 6 30, and Man at 9 a ot on Holy Saturday.

Chcbch Seevioib oh Good FifDAT.— We understand that Rur W Calder will hold aerric* und prtaoh at Sfc Peter '#, Hamilton, to-morro«r, at 11 a m and 8.30 pm. The B»r B Y Ash well vr ill hold ierrioc and preach at Ngaruawahio at 11 »m.

EiITEB SHORTS AT Ci.MIRTD«I.— The good people of Otmbridg* art netting »n example to all the sister isttletnenti of the Waikato in th« ▼ay of rural iporti on Enter Monday. We wuh our neighbours good and " Queen's weather."

To Tbiyillms.— The ■ • Alert will in fufcnro run from Hamilton to Cambridge immediately on arrira.l of th« tteatners from Mercor, mnd will le»Te Cambridge «Tery morning from 6 30 •lmrp. We »re requeitod to diroot attention to the fact that th« steamern l«»v« Hamiltou for Meroar at t o'clock a m.

Touching Mblodt.— The molt affeofcing initanco of the power of miuic — more affecting •Ten thfin Mr T G B»ndos' celebrated " Thro. Blue Buttlei" — ii undoubtedly that preientod l>r tbo Troubadour mentionod id the tone. Ho mug to sirtetiy that he actufcllj " tououtd hit guitar."

Albxandha.— Ditine Service will b« h»ld ia St Savtour'a, Alexandra, at 11 a m to-morrow, being G-ood Friday, whan thoro will bo a celebration of ths Iloly Oonamuaion. A children's •erTice will also be hold at half-pub 2 p m for tb« Sunday school children. The Baoubh Season.-^* Waikato u jmt now being iavortd with khe prennnceof sunmber of commercial tr*Tellor«, and tit* erj is stall thoy ooin»! Bepresontativei of hardware, software, and every other ware are to be constantly soon at our hotalt. More power to th«m »ay we ! It u always a hetlthy *ign to im thtso gcntlemon '' knookine roa^d," and it it latufuutorr to learu that tb« Waik»to it koowji iuooinuieroiil p»rlunce as a<v tound plaoe." Io return for the compliment, Meiiiour*, we hop«th« Wailcato will prove to you a Tory "Tom TidJltr 1 * ground," wjih plenty of gold tnd tih wr . „

Thb MinTttbr or Justice.— Tb« Honorable C C. Bowtn, Mi-niter of Jastioe, m*y bo exicred in the Waikufco to-d»j.

EtKcroßAi,. — A. lint of applications or olsitns to Vote received by th« Registration Officer for the Waikato and Waip* Di*trii«ti up to th« tint of March last, i« now potted up for public inspection on the outvde of the Oonrt House, Hamilton. (N B. — This n»tice should properly appear in our tdrertuiDg columns, and be oaid for, as Mih P«rtinsrt,on would nfiy, "is sich.") ,

BALTS8 ALTS #F Rl*t PROP BUTT tV if&AKtfAWA.HIA* — Messrs B. Ton lie and Co , auctioneer*, of Quee.. Street. Auckland, it trill be asea by adTerliaom<»nt ela«wbere, will offer for i*le ort Tuesday next, in Auckland, nt the B rum wick Mart, tb* qußrter-aore section ta Quetn Street, Ng»ru»wahia, imtnedi»tilj opposite the store of Mr Pittpatriok, together with tk» tbopi and dwellmghouies erected thefeoa.

Railway Chaiojw ajcd Tiki Tabm.— A. new time tftbl« for the Auokland and Mercer railway came into operation on Monday last. Tint time of the depart ut« of the Auckland and Mercer and Mercer and Auckland' truini bai bean altered a lew minutes, bub not (rtiffloUntly to really ac • commodaie the up-country and Waikato pttbUc, at vre some time ago pointed oat might be dons. Ono beneficial cbango has, however, been mado in the altored r&to of freight charged for Conveyance of good*. Settlers will be glad to laarn that they -can now forward by rail 1 cwt. of produoe st the same proportionate rate cf a ton. Formerly any product undtr 5 cwt wsl ohargod as 6 cwt, if it only weighed 80lbi. No\r the minimum charge is on lcwt. Thus, if %he freight ii 30« per ton, lcwL can be ilttt for 1».

Public Ha li,, Hamilton Whl —How xa»ny more instances, we wonder, will the ptople of this township requite to have thrust fencUr their notes to awakan thorn to th* faot that a publio hall in Hamilton will bo a paying speculation. O.i Tuesday night last the MortiH| Troupe was to have perform 'd a second time fn Hamilton, but not being %ble to have the u»e of the room at th« A C Barracks a second time, no'entertninment took place for want of a suitable building to hold it in. We can scarcely suppose that it is on acomnt of th« pivertv of th« district that a publio hull remains unbuilt, and certainly not for want of ventilation of the subject; but simply from want of taking the matter rigorously in hind by tboie who havo undertasen to carry out the enterprise, which, at one time at least, was favorably and even enthusiastically received by the general public. Hamilton certainly ought to b« able to do what Alexaudr* and Te Awairm u have found no »enou§ difficulty in undertaking. The Wkatjiek. -Tho late winds and cold i weather, accompanied with rain, have not been confined to this part of the provinoe or colony. We find that Southern telegrams state that Tory heuvy ram fell in tbe Canterbury Province on Sunday night lasf, nnd at Westport and Greymouth severe floods have bean expfrianced, throe fourths of the town of Greyjiouth being an ler water at 10 o'clock on Sunday night, larga numbers of persona being only saved by the buat^ eeal for thetn. About one o clock on Tuesday raornin', says the " Cros» " of thut iliy, a very iev«re thunderstorm burst CTpr the city of Auckland. Tho lightning was extremely vu'id, and sornj very loud psals of thunder were hohnl ultnoi>t. a* the same instant at> the Huh «f l'^i't^ning w>s seen. Tho thunder cloud came Imui tho luuth-wesb and pasned over the city in u north-eaeterly direction very rapidly, the wind blowing a^rongly at ta<« timo. A heavy shower of hail f»U for a few inmut 8 nt the same time.

Cimbridok FootiuLil. Clctb —If Cambridge wii' unßUCfer» p ul flm suinm<ir i- gettiatj a cricket club together, tho sumo <hftlculty will, w« dare tilt , not be found in organising a football clnb for pi*y during the present sstson. W« can quite understand that it is a somewhat difH-ulr. raattor, in a busy aurioulturtl district such as Cambridge, where " time is of yuluo to e?ei*y man young and old," to leay? farm opfirationi in tho busy summer season fdr indulgence in mere pnstime, but in the present caw of football tint will not be no, ai the time for play can be beltorsparodin tho autumn and winter months. With the object of forming a club, a scratch match will bo p.ajod at Cambridge on Halurday in lha GoTernment Paddock, opposite tho National Hot*<l ; afuer which ■ meeting will bo held for the purpose of forming a " Cambridge Football Club." Othor settlementa will doubtless follow Cuinbridgo's e«ruple ; and it' so, we may look for notne exoitmg inter" settlement roatches during the coming aeneon — t he only sort of ritalry that ought lo e Ki»t batween ustor settlemcnti'such at thoie of Waikato,

Cheap Mkat — William Coleman deserros a oi|io crown for Mining to the rescue And breaking down the priori which h»ve heretofore ruled in Hamilton for butcher's moat, but at inth.<se dtiya emo crowns aro not bo*towed on citizons for demit however worthy, hts enterprise, will, w<3 trust, be crowpid with success insiead. On Monday the announcement was made t > their oustowers by other butchers in Hamilton that joints instead of being sold as btforo At 6d r«r lb would bo sold at 4d. Of eourae, if William Coletnan oan bo run out of the field, we ahall revert baok to old prices ; but, for the sake of the good ho hai accomplished, ha will doubtless still continue lv recvire a fair share of support, and it will be to thn pubJic intorpit to noco^d it to him. It did realh seem to be preponterous that th« meat of slioepanl oattle driven from Wai-cato to Auckland could be retailed there at price* fully 30 on cant lower thjjn. it could bo sold npon the »pjP* With heavy rents and slaughterhouse expenses, and wit') ajoie risk of bad dobtfl, the Auokland butcher' hare bean able lo rstail prime joints at 2Jd for fore-qtior.'era, and 4d per lb for Tegs of rautlon, which bavo besn sold hero for 6d per*lb. Hamilton insy hare been a butcher's paradise for some time past, but the public has paid pretty dearly to rtindor ifc so, and meat iv too many hon*ei has been a luxury whera it should hare beon enjoyei in plenty. But, after all, moderate pnees will be found beneficial to all, the public will consume more largely, and the business of butensr and grazier be alike extended. In dull times", and during a dearth of nowf, anything in the shape of a " looal" is a god-lend to editors, and many and ingenious are the schemes raited to got a sufficient supply of this nrliole to satisfy tht appetites of hungry subscribers, and newspaper readers. Under such trying circumstances, a" big turnip," "an overgrown cabbage," a "wonderful strawberry," or anything of this kind in th« vegetable world, espocially in agricultural districts, is an editorial luxury. We know of one inventive literary genius on a small country paper in the South, who, during a dull season, got completely "stuck for news." To keep bis readers supplied he hud to hare recourae to his imagination, and each issue oaiia out with wonderful discovery of a new mineral in a part of the country or«r «hich jno white man hud erer trodden ; a double suicide ; some person had committed suicide by poisoning himself, and then jumping into Ike riror, and being ourried out to sea ; another hud been drowned or had his limbs fractured by the falling of a tree. On one oocasion this literat/ wondor opened a stable door and let loose a horse. Tho issue following had an article upon "Larnkiniim," another adrising mothers to be careful in nob allowing their children to play about the streets and stand a chance of boing mangled by the kiok of vicious horses thus allowed t > roam about ; a local walking into the Police, fo permitted such scoundrelly acts to bo perp« rated) a lettor to the Editor asking why horsos were allowed to wander at largo to the inconvenience of pedesti'ims ; and finally a leader upon thi whole. Jiy this means his paper kept up appoamnops till llushor times sit in. In the present dearth of news in Waikato, we are glad t > welcomo anything that uiht interest our rt« Urs without going in for " invention," and are alw*y* prepared to chronicle anything " out of tb. ordinary" in our agricultural world. On Satur day taut we were shewn a sample of quince* grown by Mr Oarl of Ohaupo. Iv all there W»re 16 lbs weight, the smalloat of tho fruit weighing over half a pound, while many of them weigh* I a pound. Tboy were qiuto ripe slid perfectly sound, and we can vouch for their good quality, hating mmle an excellent fish to oar Sunday's dinner on quiuoe pie. Mr Oarl ha? a Urge quauiity of this delicious fruit growing in his garden, all equal in siz; and quality to thoM shewn us. WitU *uoh a frrtilo oh.nV.e as oura, wo do not t>ee why this and similar fruit could not be grown in »uuli:i*at quantities (or export to other