Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1901 — Tea and Typhoid. [ARTICLE]

Tea and Typhoid.

The Japanese are wonderfully cleanly. When they come in from the fields their first attention is to a hath, prepared for them in big tanks near their shanties. They are not particularly modest about sufficient attire, and with hardly anything but a towel to conceal tlieir nakedness, they rush for the baths, which they insist must be of warm water. But they are remarkably susceptible to typhoid fever! due largely to their own reckless habits. I never saw a Chinaman in the islands ill with typhoid. That is because they rarely drink water, always preferring tea, which, of course, is made of boiled water. Especially after the heavy rains the Japanese suffer severely from typhoid. Ou our plantations the deaths were often as many as four or five a week.—A Hawaiian Physician in Washington Post.