Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-01-12 | Page 4 | Reducing Typhoid Attacks

I I REDUCING TYPHOID I ATTACKS. I Statistics on typhoid fever in the II' army of the United States continue H ; to prove most interesting. The sur- I geon-general declares only three cases I of typhoid fever occurred in the army I j during 1913; two were in recently en-I en-I ji listed recruits who were admitted to I j; the hospital with the disease inside I j, of the first six days of service, while I jj in the third case, only partial immu-I immu-I I nity through vaccination had been es- I tablished. All three of these patients I I recovered By way of contrast the report states that in 1912, there were j IS cases with 3 deaths; in 1911, 44 I j cases with 6 deaths; in 1910, 142 cases I and 10 deaths, and in 1909. 173 cases I with 16 deaths. Among the troops scattered along the Mexican border and in large camps in Texas, not a case of typhoid has occurred in an inoculated man I i since June 4, 1912. This means that typhoid fever as a military disease is practically a thing of the past. Only those familiar fa-miliar with the awful ravages of this i disease in all previous wars under all conditions in which large numbers of ft j -nen were herded together under unfavorable un-favorable conditions can appreciate the enormous economic and military value of this fact. thousands of volunteers in our military mili-tary camps were stricken with typhoid and hundreds died Since vaccinn-t'on vaccinn-t'on has heen practiced, typhoid has almost disappeared from the army. A number of Ogden physicians employ em-ploy vaccination even after the disease dis-ease has appeared and they nave ob taSned excellent resulti In lessening the severity of the attack. u'o understand much typhoid has appeared in tho nrnian arm in Flanders. Flan-ders. The hardships insanttaiv conditions under which the men are laboring may be responsible for the prence of disease, but inability to vaccinate such large bodies of men I as have been called to arms, no j iloubt, has left the soldiers suscept-1 ible. no