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THE STUDENT HEALTH SERVICE
Author(s) -
A H MACKLIN
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1959.tb88823.x
Subject(s) - service (business) , citation , computer science , world wide web , information retrieval , psychology , library science , marketing , business
various germs of the Yan Yean water before using it for brewing purposes,M de Bavay, to his amazement,encountered severalpure cultures of typhoid bacilli in some water obtained on the spot. He repeatedhis experimentswith success,showedhis culturesto severalgentlemenacquainted with the subject, and then made his discovery public. The tide of public indignation was strong against the scientist. The Government,at the recommendationof ProfessorAllen, sent to Sydney for a gentlemanto disprove M de Bavay's assertionsat a salary of £100 per month, and Dr. Katz and ProfessorAllen worked away at the problem with all their might. Notwithstanding that M de Bavay had to himself supply the pure cultures wherewith to start the control party, who evidently could not get them themselvesin the then existing circumstances,the report found that M de Bavay's case was "not proven". And now the whirligig of time has at last brought that gentlemanhis revenge,for Dr. Gresswell only recently reiteratedhis warning that the water supply was the main sourceof typhoid contamination: that people would persist in drinking human excrementin spite of all warnings. Thereforede Bavay'styphoid bacillus must still be disporting itself in the limpid waters of the Yan Yean, and be supplied to the inhabitantswithout extra charge.