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Title: Kansas University quarterly
Year: 1899 (1890s)
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Publisher: Lawrence, Kansas, The University
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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ely more than oneof those who gave any opinion in the matter stated that no relationhad been observed between bad sanitary surroundings and diph-theria. The question was also asked whether the poor are more liable todiphtheria than the well-to-do. Nineteen were of the opinion thatthe poor are more liable, and of these twelve specified that thegreater liability is due to poor sanitary surroundings. Fourteenthought that there is no special incidence on the poor, and two orthree stated that in their opinion the rich are more subject to thedisease. Four mentioned dug-outs and sod houses as renderingthe occupants more liable to diphtheria. In the letter of inquiry it was also asked whether any spread ofepidemics had been observed to be due to raw milk or any otherarticle of food. Two mentioned poor food in general as favoringdiphtheria, and a city physician suggested that the kind of fruitspften sold on the streets by Italian venders might be agents in the IJARBER: DIlHTHKRIA IN KANSAS. 33
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34 KANSAS UNIVERSITY QUARTERLY. spread of the disease; but the answers were for the most part neg-ative. As to agents other than food, one or two correspondentssuggested domestic cats, and there is a case of this kind describedin the 1886 report by Dr. Isaiah Miley, of Phillips county. A decrease of the death rate of typhoid fever so uniformly fol-lows improvement in drinking water and sanitation in general thatthe amount of decrease may be taken to measure roughly such im-provement; so in estimating a possible relation between sanitationand diphtheria it is of value to compare the diphtheria and typhoiddeath rates during a series of years. Dr. Thorne remarks thatwith the improvement in the sanitary condition of London duringthe years 1871 to i88g, accompanied by a decrease in infectiousdiseases taken as a whole and a very marked decrease in typhoid,there was a decided increase in the diphtheria death rate. Statis-tics from other localities show-that the decrease of typhoid due tobett

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