Show TYPHOID FEVER AND TIIE THE FARM WELL VELL dy by dr J B E greaven agricultural collake the farm well Is orten often the most dong dangerous erous part of the farm instead fit ef giving pure life saving katr it of ion funi furni lilies infected death liali spread spreading ng fluid there la 14 no way vay for tile the pyo eyo to detect between tile the pure and tin the impure winter but it Is true that in me average farm well 1011 unprotected front boiu infection ns as it is IH there are arc present numerous kinds of disease causing organisms not only the dreaded dread cil typhoid but ninny intestinal diseases on the farm farin may inay be traced to impure wll vill water yet it la in iol ne ceary for the farm fann to have any infected source or it water supply proper cave care to guard the well contamination will lioen limea tho the supply put pure chy why Is in it that in so many rural districts various intestinal diseases tire meira prevalent than they are in lare cities when the reverse be true tle find at least a partial answer to this question in the tha difference in ili water supply ll of tho the two districts in the h water rp are usually carefully guarded gu ardeil a contamination while in the cuti country districts the supply of water lq li ti usually qually obtained from wells vell and these in im maity places tire Bli allow and what Is worse than thai that not protected front from the filth which cihy b be in from lie top eminent nu an lei on this subject have found that whore one death from typhoid could be prevented by improving tile water supply two td or three deaths from froin other causes could be prevented presented by tin improvement an improved water supply not only reduces the number of deaths from typhoid fever but do creases infant mortality and the death rate from gastro cast disturbances N this Is due wit not only to the ali re ri noral of dibease producing orar lama front from the water rater lut but thero there are many kotlier substances suo stances and in impure water which greatly rodic tt tb bodily vigor of the individual using it and anything or condition con dItton which in tiny way reduces the bodily vitality utility makes the nn an eay easy mark for disease many mani wells are only loosely isely co Terol with plants between which pers toad nr loares make trien any it Is I 1 easy to see boo liow low the filth from I 1 the lie boots of working men or from child playing on tile he planks or arora walk ln about ca infection I 1 LI on on their leetmaa vet may gat inv into dinv the wa re and may easily take ph ite ice one ona need nead not go far into the tha country to find places the out houses anro fraly opery open at the bitch so that tha t fowls fowle can walk under benl enl from there here anto tile the planks covol ing the tha vell veil all the filth left by them on oil 0 the to cover of the well Is later inter washed into the ahil this could do little harin ham if th ahw disease parma gems were not present dut one never biever knows ahem lwi they ony h IQ pre ent it a not elou ash h to know vint amt rm ITO case of typhoid has afi been h cen the premises for it 3 Is often the tha case that apparently healthy in tire carrying within or from their bodies tile the dl acas germa cerms for these reasons the old plank which cover so a many wella veils should ha be replaced by a tight fitting cement platform vi verling not only the tha surface of hut but several feet the well slid into tahe ground three or four feet BO an that till ill the tha wn wa ter tar which finds its way into the th well murt apsa through several ewt copt of airm soil anil under hee well wel it if fairly deep deell can lie ile deperi ded upon for water where water la Is knon to tn i bp be or strongly stron cly toil taj of 0 deans eln amri n laminated the only remedy 1 11 to boll the ilia water belr beriro use the ninny fil which pro bra heiar haeng to ti the public cannot be depended depond edl un bevis asb they tire so constricted that 1 aej be apart lay day af thoroughly earled U by heating to a rad heat |