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Show Guard Against Typhoid Fever been intelligently observed. And what is true of typhoid fever in this regard, is c!so none the less true of dysentery, diarrhea and other filth-borne diseases. The following are the precautions precau-tions urged against typhoid: 1. Drink only water which has been pronouced safe by the health officials. In this connection have your water supply tested by the state board of health. Containers for submitting samples will be furnished on request. 2. If the water supply is polluted pol-luted or there is any doubt about its purity, boil all water used for drinking, for bath, for washing hands and face and for washing uncooked foods and vegetables. Chlorination will also render water safe; ask your health officer as to the proper method of doing this. 3. Scald dishes and tableware. ! BY DR. J. L. JONES State Epedemlosogist Investigations by the state board of health and reports from officials offi-cials of numerous communities throughout the state, indicate that the extensive drouth conditions have created a serious typhoid fever threat. In view of the threatening conditions con-ditions obtaining and of the fact that typhoid is always apt to be most prevalent during the period between mid-summer and early fall, it is of first importance that no safe-guard against infection be ommitted anywhere by individuals individ-uals or by communities. 4. Partake only of milk and milk products above suspicion or that have been pasteurid. . 5. Swat the fly! Trap the fly! Poison the fly! Most important of all, see that the fly has no place In which to breed. .6. Every householder should immediately im-mediately see to the cleaning up of his premisses, getting rid of filth, manure, and other breeding breed-ing places for flies and making all privies fly-proof and sanitary. , 7. All homes, especially the kitchen, dining room and sickroom, sick-room, should be carefully screened against flies, which are constant carriers of filth and germs. - 8. All cisterns, wells, and springs should, be protected from surface drainage. 9. Avoid bathing and swimming in open and unprotected waters, since most of these , are, heavily contaminated with garms of filth-borne filth-borne diseases. 10. Always observe the simple precaution of washing the hands before eating and of keeping the fingers and other unnecessary objects ob-jects from the mouth and nose. Should any member of the family develop a continued and contin-ueing contin-ueing fever or evidence of any other symtoms of typhoid, the family physician should be promptly prompt-ly called. In this way, an early diagnosis may be made, proper medical care provided and instructions instruct-ions given in preventing the spread of the disease. Furthermore, the physician in attendance can then report the case to the health department, de-partment, which, in turn, will co operate with both the family and the physician in preventing and controlling the spread of the disease. As the most practicable, immediately im-mediately effective measure or prevention, general inoculation is urged by the state board of health. This inoculation is harmless, causes little inconvenience and, when completed, furnishes immunity im-munity for from two to three years. Have your physician inoculate inocu-late every member of the family at once. The state board of health manufactures typhoid vaccine in its own laboratory and' furnishes it free to health departments and practicing physicians in the state. For basic protection, sanitate the home and other surroundings and carefully observe the rules of personal hygiene. Every case of typhoid comes from swallowing the germs, or seeds, of the disease, and such germs come from just one source. This source is the waste matter the bowel and kidney discharges of human beings who are sick with the disease or else are "carriers" of the germs. "Carriers" are persons who, although not sick with the disease themselves, have typhoid germs growing in their bodies. When human wastes coming from tyhpoid cases or from "carriers' "car-riers' are not properly disposed of, they are apt to get into water, milk and other foods, and, through such agencies, be transmitted to well persons. Water is usually infected by sewage or surface drainage. Milk and other foods are liable to be infected by fingers fin-gers or flies contaminated with typhoid germs. If all wastes from ' human bodies could always be so placed that it would be inaccessible to flies and could not be carried on human fingers, or get into sources of drinking water or into milk supplies or other foods, typhoid ty-phoid fever would soon become an extinct disease. Typhoid fever, while one of the most dreaded, is also one of the easiest to control and obliterate of all the communicable diseases. Its prevention may be largely summed up in the word "cleanliness." And by "cleanliness" is meant not only clean foods, especially milk and clean water, but also cleanliness cleanli-ness of peVson and surroundings. Typhoid fever has always prevailed pre-vailed where cleanliness is neglected neg-lected and everywhere dismissed in proportion as cleanliness has |
