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of  danger  if  not  subsequently  sterilized.  Quite  recently  I  had 
occasion  to  visit  a  man  who  did  a  large  bottled-milk  business  in 
New  York  City.  The  milk  came  in  wagons  from  the  upper  part  of 
Westchester  County,  and  he  had  a  horse-stable  half  way  between 
his  source  of  supply  and  New  York.  Here  his  horses  were  changed. 
All  the  milk  came  to  this  stable  in  cans,  and  the  empty  bottles 
came  back  here  to  be  washed.  He  had  two  wooden  troughs  in  this 
stable,  and  a  stove  with  a  large  kettle  to  heat  water,  and  the  bottles 
were  washed  here  in  lukewarm  water  with  sal  soda,  rinsed  with  cold 
water,  and  then  filled  from  the  cans. 
"  I  think,  if  some  of  us  had  followed  these  bottles  around  and  had 
seen  where  some  of  them  had  been,  we  would  have  wanted  them 
pretty  well  steamed  and  sterilized  before  we  drank  from  them." — 
TV.  Y.  Med.  News,  February  12,  1897. 
Martin  {The  Med.  Press  and  Circular,  December  15,  1897)  gave 
a  boy,  aged  seven  years,  who  for  some  months  had  been  in  the 
habit  of  wetting  his  bed  three  or  four  times  each  night,  the  follow- 
ing mixture : 
tt\,. — Sig.  :  ^ss  at  4  p.m.  and  a  second  dose  at  bedtime. 
From  the  time  when  this  was  first  administered  there  was  no 
occurrence  of  the  enuresis. 
In  the  last  twenty  years  the  typhoid  death-rate  in  Germany  has 
declined  in  successive  five-year  periods,  per  10,000  living,  in  the 
following  ratios  :  6-17,4-99,  278  and  186.  During  a  similar  period 
the  typhoid  death-rate  of  Philadelphia  has  not  been  reduced  by  one- 
half.  In  1880  it  was  587  per  100,000,  and  in  1896  it  was  38-81. 
During  thirty-six  years  ending  December  31,  1896,  the  total  num- 
ber of  deaths  from  typhoid  reported  in  Philadelphia  was  19,663. 
In  1892  the  ratio  of  typhoid  mortality  to  the  general  mortality  was  :  in 
Philadelphia,  2-22 ;  in  Chicago,  2  64 ;  in  Boston,  1-22  ;  in  London, 
•49,  and  in  Berlin,  -42.  We  pay  high  prices  for  our  "liberty  and 
equality" — i.  e.,  for  our  bosses  and  our  slavery. —  The  Phila.  Med. 
your.,  February  5,  1898. 
TREATMENT   OF  ENURESIS. 
R.    Potass,  bromid., 
Tinct.  belladonnae, 
Tinct.  chloroformi  co.  (B.P. ), 
Aq.  ad., 
3*j 
Si 
ifvi 
THE  DEATH-RATE  FROM  TYPHOID  FEVER. 
