Canadian journal of public health . n and vac-cination, and that of Toronto for com-plete bacteriological and pathologicalwork. Blankets. All blankets are sterilized at intervalsof two weeks, facilities being provided fordoing the blankets of two battalions perday. The blankets are subjected to livesteam for twenty minutes, and then todry heat for five minutes or longer as re-quired. Hot water and cold showers arealso provided at the fumigator for theuse of men affected with vermin. The slides shown herewith illustratesome of the camp devices and surround-ings. In regard to Camp Borden, I desi
Canadian journal of public health . n and vac-cination, and that of Toronto for com-plete bacteriological and pathologicalwork. Blankets. All blankets are sterilized at intervalsof two weeks, facilities being provided fordoing the blankets of two battalions perday. The blankets are subjected to livesteam for twenty minutes, and then todry heat for five minutes or longer as re-quired. Hot water and cold showers arealso provided at the fumigator for theuse of men affected with vermin. The slides shown herewith illustratesome of the camp devices and surround-ings. In regard to Camp Borden, I desireto say that from the statements of medicalofficers who have had a varied experiencehere and elsewhere during the war, it isquite certain there is no other militarycamp in existence which affords such var-ied facilities for the comfort of enlistedmen. The low sickness rate in this camp,the exceedingly Ioav mortality, the generalphysical appearance of the men is a suffi-cient answer to the unfounded criticismsof this Canadian CARRIERS OF DISEASE BY SIR JAMES GRANT AT NO PERIOD in our history hasthe subject of carriers of diseaseattracted a greater degree of in-terest than at present. It may be dividedinto two classes, those at home and thoseabroad. Travellers abroad are in nevt^,and often unknown, surroundings, andrisk of infection all the greater. Travel-lers at home, en route, by train or boat,may contract disease from unknowngerms, to which subjected. Recently, acase of well-marked diphtheria developedin a farmhouse near Ottavs^a. The servantbecame alarmed, and left after two daysemployment. A week afterwards thissame servant engaged with a family in ahealthy section of Ottawa City, and in oneweek a child developed diphtheria, wherethis disease was not known previously,and in severe form, doubtless the resultof germs, carried from the throat, or nose,of first case. Under such circumstancesthe health officer should have been noti-fied, the servant isolated and disinfec
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