Enteric fever : its prevalence and modifications, ætiology, pathology and treatment as illustrated by Army data at home and abroad / by Francis H. Welch.

  • Welch, Francis H.
Date:
1883
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Credit: Enteric fever : its prevalence and modifications, ætiology, pathology and treatment as illustrated by Army data at home and abroad / by Francis H. Welch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    limited in amount; that in the tanks of the natives very contaminated, that in the military quarters not so often illustrating contamination as at first sight the arrangement would suggest. The con- servancy a combination of cesspits and sewers, the sewage arrangements with many defects, the sewers bad in construction, “nothing but long cesspools’' cut out of the porous rock, and although lined with an impervious coating, yet, from breaks of continuity or other cause, often allowing of soakage. A thick, poor, native population with ideas on sanitation abso- lutely wanting, with enteric fever endemic though generally classed as “ enteritis,” and habits essenti- ally favouring its existence. The barracks are ill adapted for the purpose, rarely originally intended as such but formerly used as store houses (Verdala, Pembroke Camp and a few excepted), ill-ventilated, and with defects not remediable ; and except two or three so closely surrounded by the civil population that it is impossible to shield the inmates against the insanitary conditions of the neighbourhood, or diseases of a communicable nature which may exist in the native community. As bearing on the military we have the following- defects associated with enteric disease set forth in the Blue Books.—Exposure of earth saturated with sew- age escape ; exposure of sewer contents ; atmosphere loaded with emanations from sewer mouths; efflu- vium from drains ; cleansing of an old offensive cess- pit ; sewage atmosphere from ventilating shaft; con- taminated tank water ; exposure of drains opened. These conditions however have not always been followed by enteric prevalence.
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