Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1913 — War on Germ Carriers. [ARTICLE]

War on Germ Carriers.

Berlin. —The Berlin Clinical Weekly announces tbat an unnamed donor has promised $2,500 for the discovery ol a method of ridding so-called "bacillus carrien” of the bacilli infesting their systems. Cases of this kind, like that of the famous “Typhoid Mary” of New York are commoner than is sup posed, and the persistence of typhoid bacilli Is the commonest form of affliction. The Clinical Weekly asserts than an analysis of all the reported cases in Germany shows that Women furnish 92 per cent of the total.