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Show TO VACCIMATE FOR TYPHOID City Health .Department Will Do All the WorK Free, Too. HAS PROVED SUCCESS IN ARMY AND NAVY -. Three Injections Few Days Apart Required to MaKe One Immune. At meeting ef the city board ot health today tt waa decided that th health department will vaccinate for troli nid favar free of charge, the same as It doss for smallpox. Now that the typhoid fersr season is approaching, the health department Is taking steps to keep IV down to the minimum, and it haa been found that yaccination for the disease has met with exceedingly good results. Vaccination for typhoid haa been kised extensively in the army and nary, and it ie claimed that it ha been an important factor in the prevention of typhoid fever. For. this reason City Health Commissioner 8.- G. Paul is of bte opinion that it can be advantageous, ly used in thi eity, which led to the action of the board of health. Thi ia perhapa the drat eity in the country where the health department hae decided de-cided to nee vaccination for typhoid, according ac-cording to Dr. Paul, and its result will be watched with interest. Persons exposed to the disease and desiring to be vaecinated will apply to the city board of health. Dr. Paul say that it ha not yst been ascertained how long the result of th typhoid vaccination are good for, but he say th Immediate -results sre excellent ex-cellent and render immunity from the disease. Th process of typhoid vaccination I somewhat more complicated than that for smallpox. Th typhoid vaeeine .consists of typhoid bacilli killed and sterilised. It reauiree three injections ten dava apart. At the drat injection 500,000',000 bacilli are injected into the blood and at the second and -third 1,-000,000,000 1,-000,000,000 each time. The dead bacilli, sterilised, are absolutely abso-lutely harmlee to the system and build up a resistaac in th blood to the disease. |