Diphtheria and Foul Water

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 7, 1879

Diphtheria and Foul Water.

THE attention of the public cannot be too often called to the fact that diphtheria, as well as typhoid fever, typhus fever, cerebro-spinal meningitis, and many other febrile diseases, is distinctly a filth disease. Its connection with foul air, resulting from imperfect ventilation, defective drainage, and foul water, has been so clearly traced that there is no room for doubt.

An English sanitary inspector recently reported to the London Sanitary Record twenty-seven cases of diphtheria which undoubtedly originated in the use of impure water for drinking and cooking purposes. Of the twenty-seven cases, nine were fatal. It behooves every person to look well to the cleanliness of his premises, especially to the well, the cistern, and the cellar.—Good Health.