Show r UPHOlD TYPHOID HITS MAt MANY Y YI I Public Health Servi Service e War Warns s Cities Cities Cities Cit Cit- ies and Individuals Two Hundred Thousand People Contra Contract Contract Con Con- tra tract t Disease During Year of Whom DI Die Filth Die Filth Bad Food Food I and Files Flies the Cause Washington During Dur During ng the year pro i ably people in the United States will contract typhoid fever saya says say saysa a statement issued by the public health health service The average period period of invalidism will be more than a month for tor every c case se so that the i ec nomie loss even If recovery does ensue en i sue can be reckoned upon this basin basis including the care and attention r re required qui red Of those who contract the disease possibly will die Fifty per cent of these will be bed between between be- be tween the ages of ot fifteen and thirty thirty- five years the very time of life when the loss is most frightful Moreover this is an annual toll and represents represents' the minimum fatality which we have hav attained No sooner is the computation of the tho completed than another series is begun and so on interminably The weather pr presence sence of flies files contamination contamina contamina- tion of food tood products and the increased liability of ot infection through changes of ot residence makes it once more necessary neo nee essary for tor health bodies boies to sound a warning note Typhoid fever is a disease of ot filth It can only be contracted by taking into the system the waste products of one previously ill of the disease These waste waste wast products are conveyed from one individual to to another usually usually usually ally by means means of a third object such as as water flies files or milk Even If disease ase itself were never contracted in this manner we should revolt with abhorrence at the idea of such For every case ot of the infection developing someone either cither the municipality or the individual indi indi- individual vidual has been careless and public opinion will soon regard such carelessness carelessness care care- i 1 I as criminal In the eyes of I the health officer typhoid fever is strictly a preventable disease For 30 years the causative organism organism organism or or- has been known and studied For nearly twenty years science has been in possession of most delicate blood tests for tho the recognition of the tho disease Knowledge of ot the dissemination tion of the disease is consequently ex ox- exact I act and definite Not content with accomplishments I along these lines the medical edi J l sl f sion slon 1 on n have even a Th D b y which the public may live under unsanitary un- un un-j un i sanitary conditions ns with perfect Im ha- Impunity so far tar as this particular disease disease disease dis dis- ease is concerned Persons may take take into their systems the filth wn which ich produces produces produces pro pro- duces disease and death and yet remain remain re re- main free from harmful effects if the preventive treatment has been received re re- In spite of ot these efforts the frightful frightful fright fright- ful tul mortality continues A large proportion proportion pro pro- proportion portion of ot the population is ignoring the principles principle Ii which have been so sowell sowell sowell well established Further steps toward to to- toward ward the prevention of typhoid must be the result of more general enlightenment enlightenment of the mass of ot the people The avoidance of the Infection rests primarily upon community action The proper protection of water supplies the eradication of filth and all its ac ao- accompaniments the regulation of dairies and the safeguarding of milk are all problems which only communities communities as a whole can settle Nevertheless less this does not absolve the individual individual ld- ld ual citizen from responsibility and he can do much for tor his own tion The eradication of ot filth is in part the duty of every citizen and each should see see that his own surroundings are in a satisfactory condition He should guard against carelessness in inthe the maintenance and preparation of 1 food tood and withhold his patronage from those who disregard the rules of i cleanliness remembering that tho foods which are most subject to contamination contamination con con- are milk and Its products also oysters and vegetables The role of ot flies in th t lion tion of ot the Infection is now generally general general- ly recognized The elimination ot of t i tsuch such fly-breeding fly places as garbage manure and filth Is most essential l but the proper screening of houses an anthe and ana i the adoption of ot destructive measures are also ot of great value i If It in spite of ot precautions the disease develops It then becomes the duty of ot every citizen to Implicitly t to tot tot- l- l low the instructions given in order that the safety of others may not DO oe imperiled bearing in mind the fact that every case of ot typhoid fever is 18 due due to someone's Ignorance or care care- No higher duty ot of citizenship citizen citizen- ship than this can be conceived 3 I 1 |