Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1896 — A Check to Diphtheria. [ARTICLE]

A Check to Diphtheria.

Dr. Dixey, in ltis pi per oa the vital statistics of diphtheria in tounion, speaking of the antitoxin treatment, asserted with confidence that the diphtheria mortality of the metropolis has received a considerable check, which it is difficult to attribute to any othercause than the introduction of the serum treatment. This conclusion of his is, of course, directly at variance with that arrived at by Dr. to-miox Browne, to which we recently referred in this column. l)r. Aordo-n Sharp contributed a valuable paper on the soil in relation to diphtheria and its' organism, in which he arrives at the conclusion that diphtheria would appear to be endemic 'ft certain districts; that soils organically laden, and with tin impervious sub-soil, may become favorable breeding grounds for the bacilli, but that deep drainage would appear to send -r such soils Innocuous. 1 .1 . :;■ I