Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1908 — DISEASE IN SPRAY [ARTICLE]

DISEASE IN SPRAY

Air Drift Ocean Can Carry Noxious Germs. A French m.mary surgeon in Algiers has recently found t..at spray driven ashorp from a storm/ sea cars festively transmit disease germs. Carrying on his investigation at Bnb-el-oued, near Algiers, at a point where a number of sewers discharged into the sea, he found that the spray which w r s driven some 160 feet ashore and high into the air contained three limes the number of germs ordinarily present in the air. This spray forms a mist, which per meates the houses near to the waters edge and in it a number of virulent bacilli were found. When a gale is blowing off shore the effect is still more pronounceu and the - proportion of germs iucreaseo tnd the investigator is conv need th£ steps should be taken to protect shore-, from sewage pollution. There are sufficient people in Eng land and Scotland paying the annua tax imposed by the inland revenu. upon the use of armoriai bearings to produce a sum of $350,000 each year, (’he great bulk ol this sum is paid by people who care uot an atom either about their family or their arms, bm pay the tax regularly simply because they have carriages or plate heraldically decorated. The really old families of the realm, however, use armorial emblems for decorative purposes td an extent almost Incredible in the eyes of those ftunjill&r with them only on note paper, table silver and carrlage^panels.