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Infection Source. "The usual method of infection in man is by eating pork containing trichinae [certain tiny worms]; the hogs become infected from eating swill that contains the bodies of infected rats. The rats become infected from eating one another and from eating scraps of infected pork; thus the endless chain of infection. The rats (and dogs) are important sources of infection, as far as man is concerned, in countries in which they are used for food. The infection in man is regarded as more or less accidental, the lower animals being the normal hosts for trichinae...
...never, no never, say "swill...
...Sinclair were not already known as the sourest bellied of all our local swill merchants, his vaudeville might...
...Newark, N. J., citizens complained that 100 vagrant goats had taken possession of the freight-yard district, butted the residents, overturned swill buckets, eaten clotheslines, rosebushes, awnings. Police, five dog-catchers, two Health Department Inspectors, Humane Society Agents, a squad of detectives geared out with lassos and dog-nets, harried the herd of whiskered miscreants, caught nine...
Beginning with the Glee Club trial on Thursday and Friday nights, the Musical Club swill begin their year's work in earnest, and make every endeavor towards turning out successful organizations whether the Faculty permits a Christmas trip or not. There should be an extra inducement for '00 men to try for the 'Varsity Glee Club this fall, inasmuch as the officers have decided that all Freshmen who show some ability at the 'Varsity trial need not be examined again for the Freshman Club. This arrangement will save considerable time for the Glee Club and worry for the candidates...