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Show Suggestions Giver for Typhoid Care Investigations by the state board of health and reports from officials offi-cials of numerous communities throughout the state indicate that the extensive rains have created a serious typhoid fever threat, and, in view of the threatening conditions condi-tions obtaining and of the fact that typhoid is always apt to be most prevalent during the period between be-tween mid-summer and early fall, it is of first importance that no safeguard against infection be I omitted anywhere by individuals ' or by communities. I As the most practicable, i in - mediately effective measure of prevention, general inoculation is ' urged by the state board of health. This inoculation is harmless . causes littie inconvenience and, I when completed, furnshes immunity immun-ity for from two to three years. 1 Have your physician inoculate : every member of the family at j once. The state board of health 'manufactures typhoid vaccine in its own lavortory and furnishes it free to health departments and practicing physicians in the state.' For basic protection, sanitate j 1 the home and other surroundings ! and carefully observe the rules of ' personal hygiene. I Every case of typhoid comes 1 from swallowing the germs, or 1 seeds, of the disease, and such I germs come from just one souTce i This source is the waste matter ! the bowel and kidney discharges t of human beings who are sick with the disease or else are "car-iers" of the germs. Carriers are persons who, although not sick with the disease themselves, have tvphoid 1 germs growing on their bodies. j When human wastes coming from typhoid cases or from carriers car-riers are rot properly disposed ot. they are apt to get into water, milk and other foods, and, through j (Continued oa last page). Typhoid Care (Continued from page 1) such agencies, be transmitted to well persons. Water is usually infected in-fected by sewage or surface drainage. drain-age. Milk and other foods are liable to be infected by fingers or flies contaminated with typhoid germs. If all waste from human bodies could always be so placed that it would be inaccessible to flies and could not be carried on human fingers, or get into sources of drinking water or into milk supplies or other foods, typhoid fever would soon become an extinct ex-tinct disease. Typhoid fever, while one of the most dreaded, is also one of the easiest to control and obliterate of all the communicable diseases. Its prevention may be largely summed up in he one word "cleanliness." And by cleanliness is meant not only clean foods, especially milk and clean water, but also cleanliness cleanli-ness of person and surroundings. Typhoid fever has always prevailed pre-vailed where cleanliness is neglected neglect-ed and everywhere diminished in proportion as cleanliness has been intelligently observed. And what is true of typhoid fever in this regard is also none , the less true of dysentery, diarrhea and other filth-borne diseases. The following are the precautions precau-tions urged against typhoid: 1. Drink only water which has been pronounced safe by the board of health officials. In this connection con-nection have your water supply tested by the state board of health. Containers for submitting samples will be furnished on request. 2. If the water supply is polluted or there is any doubt about its purity, boil all water used for drinking, for bath, for washing hands and face and for washing uncooked foods and vegetables. Chlorination will also render water safe; ask your health officer as to the proper method of doing this. 3. Scald dishes and tableware. 4. Partake only of milk and milk products above suspicion or that have been pasteurized. 5. Swat the fly! Trap the fly! Poison the fly! Most important of all, see that the fly has no place in which to breed. 6. Every householder should immediately im-mediately see to the cleaning up of his premises, getting rid of filth manure and other breeding places for flies and making all privies fly-proof and sanitary. The installation in-stallation of the Utah sanitary pit privy, which is being promoted through the rural community sanitation sani-tation program of the Utah state board of health, is the answer to proper waste disposal in homes where sewerage systems or septic tanks are not available. Contact your county W. P. A. officials in this connection. 7. All homes, especially the I kitchen, dining room and sick-i sick-i room, should be carefully screened against flies, which are constant j carriers of filth and germs. 8. All cisterns, wells and springs should be protected from surface drainage. 9. Avoid bathing and swimming in open and unprotected waters since most of these are heavily contaminated with germs of filth- borne diseases. i !0. Always observe the simple ! precaution of washing the hands j before eating and of keeping the ' fingers and other unnecessary ob-! ob-! jeets from the mouth and nose. I Should any member of the I family develop a continuing fever i or evidence of any other symptoms of typhoid, the family physician should be promptly called. In this way, an early diagnosis may be made, proper medical care provided 1 j and instructions given in prevent-j prevent-j ing the spread of the disease.! Furthermore, the physician in attendance at-tendance can then report the case to the health department, which, in turn, will cooperate with both the family and the physician in preventing pre-venting and controlling the spread of the disease. Inoculate and sanitate: make 1 assurance doubly sure. |