| Show A LESSON IN HEALTH state board of health issues bulletin advises people how to avoid disease and points out things worth knowing the state board of health la is an IOU lous to avoid alsea diseases es which are peculiar to hot weather lec board recognises recognizes the frequency of discs dis a es arising from the decomposition of food stuffs in the summer months ard it at s special stress on article artic leq from which typhoid is likely to lie developed bv B following tol loNing the advice and instruction it st glien gi en out there ax would be loss less disease in each community om here is the latest bul bulletin lelin for the guidance of health officers and the people gen reain health officers should be imbres impressed cd with A ith the special necessity for vigilance during the summer month in w which aich intestinal diseases prevail and t the he increase in typhoid tp lloid feer begins as many lives may be saved and much suffering prevented b timely action the foregoing diseases are usually cornered through contaminated water nater or contaminated milk and eve y effort should be made mada to safeguard th se substances in mari man localities irrigation ditches are used as a source of drinking water in all such cases strict precautions should be taken to present their pollution ard the watersheds should be protect protected cd surface wells which are so generally generall used are liable hable to dangerous contamination b drainage from vaults and the liw law specify ing the minimum mini distance beti between Neen them should be enforced in an case if there is reason to suspect tre tle purity of the water nater peo ie should be adi adisey ed to boil water used for culinary purposes ard health boffl ers are reque requested ted to the fact to the state board of health contaminated milk is extreme y dangerous at this season and i is responsible for most of ane cases ci of summer complaint in infants as well as many cases of typhoid feer and other diseases pi strict supervision of the milk supply and care in hand ling the milk after del deli delhery iery cry these diseases es mal ma be greatly restricted daires should be inspected and their sanitary sam tare operation including iriL luding thorough cleanliness and the sterilization Z aaion of aten utensils ils rigidly insisted upon I 1 milk 1111 should at all times be protected from flies as it is a culture medium for the disease germs that ma be carried upon their legs it should al also alo o be cool ed at the time of milking and I 1 1 ept cool until used milk should not be sold from premises on which there is a case of contagious aliea disease e include ng ing intestinal diseases of infants in all cases of typhoid fever the source of the milk and water nater should be a certa curtained ined the state board of health will cause the tuberculin test to be applied free frea of charge to cows coils suspected of having ard notification of uch cases should be made to the board premises Pre mies should hould be kept in as a perfect sanitary san itari condit contrition ionis as possible garbage manure and other filth should be removed these placed place furnish the breeding place for hie file q and othe otherwise iise are injurious injun 0 o th the e health in a former bulletin the dinger from hies flies and the importance of preventing pre enting them from breeding and flona entering houses was as described and is again emphasized it is of the importance that all aults faults naults s bould b kept in a cor condition cordi diton tion and hire and dr dri earth should lic be arft li aed in anem failure to obscure these precautions lb is cespon i ble for man mana aises of t typhoid hold fier fi er and other cr wite die acs es in this connection iou ou are urged to enforce sec 1 chapter 81 of the state law requiring the thorough dis infection of typhoid echeta pi opec s should h at al 0 be instructed to di disinfect ec excreta reta in cases of intestinal inte diseases oi n infants being remi ded that therein li is agnen off the infect nc material which mai ma be deposited in blk b flies nd thus infect other infants this is without Nit hout doubt one of the most common methods i 1 which chich the dieiso i is con pa Pierl ed yours trul T B BETTY H 1 D secretary |
