PAPERS ON MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH 



- of the water ways from the two 



will be of increasing importance ae are 



improved for oceai 



importance are infectious jaundice and rat 

 bite : - in many cities in the Uni1 have 



been shown to harbor the Spirocheta icteroheinorrhagiae, 

 causing inft jaundice in man. In Illi: 



epid' ave been repoi is less 



it in this country than in other par ..•? world. 



though son!'? eas - have c itive 



agent is > muris hart 



entry the Uni1 Public Health Service 



een makir.- led investigati >n of tularemia. 



rats transmitted by the rat flea to man. ] 

 seems very bactei- 



king with the causative 

 agent. Bact. tularense. one after anot: \me inf> 



till everyone connected with the problem had had the dis- 

 ease. The Lister Institute in London then requested a 

 culture of this viral which was sent, togeth- 



er with a warning that great care must be used in hand- 

 ling it. In spite of this warning, word was received two 

 months later that the bacterid'- _ on tula- 



remia h ted the disease. Added interest was 



lent to the subject when many ra : V in W 



ington markets were found infected with tularemia. 



"mown as malt 

 which may be transmitted to man through goat milk. In 

 iderable in this man- 



ner. Guine pigs usually are harmless little creatures, 

 but recently an epiden 



ported in man. The infection was spread to bakeries by 

 rav 



•t to a 

 known as <; white diarrhea". The writer seme year 

 four ially fatal to your. _ r oung 



"om infected 

 hens contain large numbers of th* . — Baci 



lorum. — which are not destroyed by usual method 



'nsr es"c- relationship of tr to man is 



lematical. but there is littl I nbt that a 



