Show Daily Health Service Careful Nursing Is III Important in Cases of of Typhoid TEL AUG 1 HEALTH I-HEALTH Editors Editor's Note This is the last of I three articles on typhoid fever lever By fly DR MORRIS FIS A person who has typhoid fever lever I must be kept alone and preferably cared for by an 10 experienced nurse The room should be screened if Jl the illness occurs during the tho summer when flies arc are common Because the person with typhoid Is Li likely to remain Ion long I in bed he should have a firm mattress mattres and arrangements ar are must be made to change the bed linen any time it is soiled The patient must be bathed at least leut once a day and kept clean In order to prevent secondary infections It Is also Important that the mouth I be rinsed each time after food Is Js taken There was a time when It was thought ad advisable able to starve patients It Is 18 now known that the condition c is 15 so serious as to break down the nutrition of the patient so that present methods method Involve the give ing of or a diet of from to 3 00 cal cal- ories ones Then the patient will not lose weight during the course of the ill JU ness There are arc no drugs that hat have special virtues virtue in typhoid fever ant and it is not certainly established that tha typhoid fever vaccine is Li useful in treatment It is Li well established however that tha a vaccine made of the killed germs gem o of typhoid fever Is 15 of value In prevent prevent- ing In typhoid fever This was wu proved I during the World war In the entire American army there were only slightly over 1000 cases of typhoid hoid fever among troops If It the rate for typhoid which prevailed during dur duro ing the Spanish American war had ex cx isted there would have been a million cases case S SIt It is customary to give three mice mice- of the vaccine at day 10 IntervaLs intervals inter Inter- intervals vals although the intervals between injections may be shortened Obviously Obvious Obvious- ly Iy such vaccines should be given b by a physician or a trained nur nurse e. e Only rarely indeed are are arc there reactions of ofa a serious character It is probable that persistent attention atten atten- tion to water supplies and disposal of or sewage age pasteurization of milk education education edu edu- cation of ot the public In fri hygiene and the control of or carrI carrIer r will eventually eliminate ite typhoid fever en throughout the civilized world 1 |