British medical journal . cis sheath:ibr, lai-iral ]x»rtinn of same: process of nympli: in nymphal alar sheath. (FromGordon Hewitt.) reat importance to humanity, and especially to humanityat war, as a carrier of disease, especially of bacterial w:^.s as great as a Principal Medical Ofliccrashe wasas a Director of Supplies, and this is shown iu Pcuteronoiuy,chapter , where he deals with the need o£ strict ^^*[- aiKUICAL J INSECTS AND WAK: THE HOUSE-FLY. [Oct. i;, 1514 bygicue in tlie camp. In the middle of last centuryalready attention was b
British medical journal . cis sheath:ibr, lai-iral ]x»rtinn of same: process of nympli: in nymphal alar sheath. (FromGordon Hewitt.) reat importance to humanity, and especially to humanityat war, as a carrier of disease, especially of bacterial w:^.s as great as a Principal Medical Ofliccrashe wasas a Director of Supplies, and this is shown iu Pcuteronoiuy,chapter , where he deals with the need o£ strict ^^*[- aiKUICAL J INSECTS AND WAK: THE HOUSE-FLY. [Oct. i;, 1514 bygicue in tlie camp. In the middle of last centuryalready attention was being drawn to the fact tbat thehouso-iiy and the blow-fly transmitted various it was during the American-Spanish war and theSouth African -nar which followed shortly afterwards thatthe part played by these pests in conveying enteric becamedeiinitely established. Flies coming straight from tliclatrines with their legs and their wings and their probos-cides soiled with typhoid bacilli would enter the camp and. Fig. ?M. (lomestica in tlie .act of regurgitatins(From GorJon Hewitt.) fc; the tents of the soldiers and settle on their food supplies,3rawliug over their jam, floating in their milk. Thirtyper cent, of the deaths in the Boer war were due totyphoid fever. The bacillus, as is well known, is capableof existing for a long time and of persisting alive in thealimentary canal of the insect, and Graham Smith hasshown that the bacilli-may i-emain active for six dajs afterfeeding, and that the feet of flies which have the bacillus onthem ra-e capable of infecting surfaces upon which theywalk for at least two tected had 155 cases of typhoid, of whom 21 died; the pro-tected had not one case. In the winter of 1913 the FrenchSenate reicilved that the protective treatment should bemade eompulsoi-y throughout the French army; and, inspecial circumstances, among the reservists. Infantile diarrhoea, which so afflicts the crowded poorerquarters of our cities in the summer,
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