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Author: Stephen Corrigan
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1924
Typhoid outbreak
An outbreak of typhoid fever is notified from Quay-street, Bohermore and University-road, Galway, and the patients have been removed to the Central Hospital where they are progressing favourably.
The outbreak, we are glad to say, is not of a very virulent type. Precautions have been taken by the medical officers to prevent the spread of infection. In this connection it is well to point out that the use of bad water and bad milk is largely the cause of typhoid and kindred fevers.
The Food and Drugs Act, under which the authorities have power to prosecute purveyors of adulterated and dirty milk, is a dead letter in Galway.
Dr. Walsh, the chairman of the Urban Council, stated at a recent meeting that he himself had seen exposed milk for sale in Galway that resembled sewage matter. A prosecution under the Act has not been ordered since the establishment of the district court. The milk adulterer is as grave a menace to society as the poteen trafficker.
Pictured: The swimming pool under construction in Leisureland, Salthill, on March 20, 1973.
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