Show HEALTH NEWS HEWS supplement to june bulletin the season sea son of increased prevalence of typhoid lever fever Is approaching and individuals and communities be made to realize that many lives may inay be saved caved from its ravages by the careful observance of simple precautions Is attain again called to the fact that it Is caused solely by organisms given off in the excreta of a person affected with the disease these organisms are exceedingly minute but potent and are liable to infect any person la in whose intestines they may find lodgment the usual channel by which they are taken luto into the body Is the drin klog water milk and other uncooked foods way albo contain them as the result of the contact of contaminated riles flies the law provides for the of 0 excreta from typhoid cases and health officers should strictly enforce this most important measure if it were conscientiously observed in all cases the disease would soon be completely exterminated by this means alo alonet nethe be seeds heeds thus being destroyed instead of sown broadcast broad cut in the meantime all water used for drinking purposes should be treated as suspicious and should be boiled milk should be carefully protected from tom flies end and if 11 suspected as to ILI purity parity should be sterilized by belil boiling rig fruits and other foods should albo be kept from contact with flies files and the latter should be carefully excluded from houses in addition to these measures health officers should require the of all vaults by lime or some other efficient disinfectant and elusim that at they shall hereafter be maintained in a sanitary condition T B BEATTY secretary |