Show TYPHOID CARRIERS The Chicago health department has called the attention of the states state's attorney to a typhoid carrier who has repeatedly spread typhoid fever I The states state's attorney has been asked to place the evidence before a grand jury and ask evidence beC before ore a grand jury and ask for tor toran an on Indictment for manslaughter The carrier was proved to have caused cases of typhoid fever by reason reason rea rea- eason ea- ea son o of being a typhoid carrier and engaged principally In the preparation preparation preparation tion of food She had been released from quarantine quarantine quarantine antine upon the promise not to work as a cook the danger of such a relation relation relation rela rela- tion to others having been explained to 1 her her An epidemic of typhoid broke out In a Chicago suburban city among a a. group of at people who had eaten at a certain place Finally an Investigation was made and th the disease disease disease dis dis- dis- dis ease was traced to the dinner attended attend attend- ed by these people and the cook who prepared the dinner was found to be bethe bethe bethe the typhoid carrier alluded to above There were many cases of or typhoid and several deaths followed in the wake of this dinner party When they finally got hold of or the carrier carrier- cook they f found her working as a aI cook for a club in Chicago I The New Jersey health department I the Chicago story with one of its own In 1921 there was an epidemic of typhoid fever In which there were two seventy-two oases In a New Jersey sanitarium Investigation showed that one of the dairy workers was a typhoid carrier and that he had In Infected infected in- in the people through the the milk The carrier w was s told he must not engage engage en en- gage in the handling of or milk Including including including In in- in- in dairy dalty work The danger was explained to himIn him In the autumn of or 1922 an epidemic of typhoid fever developed in another New Now Jersey town The health com commissioner missioner became convinced that the tho I I disease was being spread by milk He ordered all the he milk pasteurized and and continued the investigation The epidemiologist who was Investigating investigating investigating dairies dairies' ran ron upon the man who had caused the epidemic the year before Although the man was going by another name the investigator investigator gator ator spotted him at once Laboratory laboratory labora Labora- tory examinations showed this milk milk- er r to have caused the second epidemic epidemic epidemic epi epi- demic or rather showed that he was still a carrier In order to continue infecting people with typhoid he had hadI I changed his name Presumably he had put his conscience in pawn H However wever he lie had not changed his typhoid germs nor his carrier state The New York city health department department de de- has had a a. lot of at trouble with a certain carrier who was a a. cook She had been told repeatedly that she slue must not engage In the tho preparation preparation prep prep- of food or handling of food She knows that she caused several epidemics of typhoid in to which hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- have been sick and in which many have died In spite of all this she had had repeatedly changed her name and taken Jobs as a food tood handler What are we going to do with such people 0 |