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nicely. Thus the odontopliore can be mounted well and 

 shows its characteristics in au extremely fine manner. I 

 do not think ordinary odontophores can he worked 

 nicer. than this. Of course many will have to be dis- 

 sected out but the cleaning by means of caustic potash or 

 soda answers very well. 



EDITORIAL. 



A Suit for Contracting Typhoid Fever. — The following- 

 extract from the Medical Ag-e is sig-nificant, showing- as it 

 does, how rapidly the public is learning- that disease may 

 be controlled or even prevented by the proper observance 

 of hyg-ienic laws. The old. notion that every case of sick- 

 ness or death is due to a wise dispensation of Providence 

 instead of a violation of natural laws, is becoming- obsolete. 



The widow of a man who recently died of typhoid fever 

 in Ashland, Wis., broug-ht suit aj^ainst the Ashland Water 

 Company for S5,000 damag-es, alleg-ing- that the corporation 

 permitted the water to become p(_)lluted with t\ph<iid 

 g-erms, and that her husband's death was due to this 

 pollution. 



There is little doubt that suits of this kind will, in the 

 future, increase, and that damag-es will in many instances 

 — and should in the majority — be obtained. 



The Citv of Windsor, Ontario, is at the present moment 

 suifering from the ravag-es of typhoid, and the epidemic is 

 daily increasing-, simply because the city g-overnment has 

 for two years refused to take appropriate measures to pre- 

 vent the sewage from the Walkerville suburb from being 

 drawn into the city's water supply ; even an efficient 

 health officer and health board were removed because the}' 

 insisted on looking- after the welfare of the people, and an 

 incapable officer and inefficient board appointed who are 

 amenable to the criminal neg-lig-ence and penuriousness of 

 the Common Council. 



Now, the Provincial Health Board has taken a hand in 

 the matter, and it remains to be seen whether a city coun- 

 cil can continue to want<jnly jeopardize the lives of the 

 people. 



