MICHIGAN". 



MICRO-ORGANISMS IN DISEASE. 495 



tion of Isle Royal in 1880 was 55. The totals 

 for 1884 are the results of the first count as 

 shown by the schedules returned by the enu- 

 merators, and are subject to slight corrections : 



Salt. The report of the State Salt Inspector 

 shows that the salt product of Michigan for the 

 year ending Nov. 30, 1884, was 3,252,175 bar- 

 rels the largest in the history of salt-manu- 

 facture in the State. 



Political. There were three tickets in the 

 field in 1884 Republican, Fusion (Democratic 

 and Greenback), and Prohibition. For Presi- 

 dential Electors, the Fusion extended to twelve 

 of the number ; for the thirteenth place, the 

 Democrats and Greenbackers had separate 

 candidates. The following were the State 

 tickets : 



* Greenback. 



t Democrat 



At the election on November 4, the Repub- 

 lican ticket was successful. The following was 

 the vote for Presidential Electors : Republican, 

 192,669; Fusion, 189,361; Prohibition, 18,403; 

 imperfect and scattering, 5,790. The separate 

 Democratic electors received 149,835 votes, and 

 the separate Greenback electors, 41,490. The 

 vote for Governor was as follows: Republic- 

 an, 190,840; Fusion, 186,887; Prohibition, 22,- 

 207. Four Republican (Third, Fourth, Ninth, 

 and Eleventh Districts) and seven Democratic 

 Congressmen were elected. The Legislature of 

 1885 consists of 18 Republicans and 14 Fusion- 

 ists in the Senate, and 52 Republicans and 48 

 Fusionists in the House. 



The constitutional amendment relative to 

 salaries of judges in the Upper Peninsula was 

 ratified by a vote of 35,343 to 28,642 ; that rela- 

 tive to compensation of members of the Legisla- 

 ture was rejected by a vote of 52,707 to 31,693. 



MICRO-ORGANISMS IN DISEASE. This is no 

 new subject, but it has assumed greater im- 

 portance during the past year. The study of 

 micro-organisms had long been regarded, even 

 by the medical profession, as barren of practi- 

 cal results, until the recent discoveries of the 

 tubercle and cholera bacillus opened their eyes 

 to its possibilities. Koch, the foremost au- 

 thority on the subject, says: "In no instance 

 has it been proved that an infectious disease is 

 due to a micro-organism, unless the micro-or- 

 ganism in question is present either in the 

 blood or tissues of the animal affected with 

 the disease, after death. The micro-organ- 

 ism must be capable of cultivation in some 

 suitable media outside the body," he adds, 

 " and after being cultivated for several gener- 

 ations, must cause the same disease when in- 

 troduced into the body of a healthy animal. 

 Finally, in the body of this last animal, the 

 same parasites should be found as in the for- 

 mer case." 



