Show TYPHOID FEVER This is typhoid Lime time of at the tiLe year ear Typhoid fever Cever Is a filth borne and a a person can become infected with the germs that cause It by drinking impure impure impure im im- pure water contaminated milk bathing In polluted water or by eating food harboring the germs cerms The typhoid germ was discovered discover d dby i by a scientist named Eberth In 1880 1580 They are killed by a temperature erGO or er GO 60 degrees Centigrade or degrees l Fahrenheit They have strong re resistance resistance re- re to cold can live three months in ice and stand repe repeated ted freezing They can live in is water for as long longas as eighty days but In dark wells and reservoirs they probably live e longer In ordinary soil soU they seem to live for some months but disappear disappear pear Ilear from the surface layers after acter a heavy rain Under a a. leaking drain they have been found to live for months On bread kept moist and andIn andin andin In the dark they have lived for a year They have been found in dust from contaminated soil soli In those sick with typhoid fever the germs are found in the patients patient's discharges as well as in practically all the glands and tissues of the tho body such as liver spleen kidneys lungs and skin The number of or germs excreted every day from such sucha a patient may amount to billions Now however people can be protected protected pro pro- protected against typhoid fever by nation This Is a very simple pro pro- cess A A. fluid containing dead typhoid germs is injected under the skin inthe in inthe inthe the upper part of the arm Three injections are made at intervals of ofa a week or ten days A slight alight redness redness red red- ness soon appears at the point of injection injection in in- but disappears in a few days Some persons may have a slight aUght headache and a tired feeling like that which accompanies a common cold This feeling however last only for about one day In a Q few case it may extend to two days but this Is very rare a |