| Show TYPHOID FEVER REDUCED IN RURAL communities reduction in typhoid lever bever and improvement pro in sanitary conditions have followed the intensive investigations of rural communities carried on oil by public health service tl the ie united states in ill operation cooperation co tr with local and state health officers according to tile the annual report of the surgeon general or of that service during the thelast past fiscal escal year rural homes in eight different states were visited and many of them revisited re visited in each of these thesa liumes information was obtained as ti t prevalence of disease and unsanitary conditions and a complete sanitary survey of the premises conduce conducted this was followed by eions tons to debern determine ine it remedial dial measures had been instituted ted in but a relatively small percentage of the cases did the persons concerned after I 1 having their attention drawn to tire thie danger of a particular unhygienic condition fail to inaugurate corrective mea measures stires stimulus was given to the means of public lectures the formation of active sanitary or gani zat nations ions and the enlisting of all public spirited citizens in the campaigns for reform public were also inspected and local authorities given expert advice in solving such sanitary problems as the disposal of excreta the prevention of soil sell pollution and tile the maintenance of pure water supplies the surveys made during the year 1911 1914 had shown that in rural communities less than one per cent of the homes had sanitary toilets and that wore diore than fifty per cent of 0 the people were using water from polluted sources this condition according to the tha public health service made the rural sanitation question loom large among the matter vitally the welfare I 1 ot of ilie nations nation following these stud tee ies axed and as aa a result of the interest roused aroused the neverra fe verra arite te an ix ex of the sanitary status of a 26 community has in some same places frequently been cut to one quarter of tb its previous figure in berkeley west virginia the tha cases of typhoid fever were reduced from to 10 40 in one year in orange county north carolina the rural sanitation campaign resulted in a reduction of the cases from 59 to 17 the tangible results of operations in rural sanitation indicate that marked a advancement dyan cement in maintaining hygienic satisfactory and surroundings in country districts is possible by the application of the common principles of preventive veli tive medicine conditions exist largely because they are not known to be such actual demonstrations clist rations of 0 their harmfulness together with definite recommendations for their correction remain one of the lie most gratifying and successful methods for instituting reforms and has been in the experience of the public health service invariably accompanied compa nied by definite and measure ablo able results |
