Show 0 WATER FOOD FLIES AND FINGERS one hundred and fifty persons attended a church dinner in california three or four yea years rs ago A week later ninety three of these were sick with typhoid fever it was found on investigation that all of the nin ninety e ty three had par partake takei of a dis dish h of spanish spaghetti the woman who had prepared the spaghetti was examined and was found to be a typhoid carrier carrier although she was not s sick ic k a at t th time lime her body harbored the typhoid germs evidently she had han ban died the food after it had been baked without first thoroughly washing her hands and so had infected the food this is one of many well known cases where typhoid and other diseases have been communicated through food by means of the fingers one of the great railroad systems i requires because of this danger that all employees in the restaurants and dining cars must be examined at least every thirty days T in several large h hotels ot asand and food factories and dairies the employees must pass medical ek rmina tion this should be made the rule wherever food is handled mary many epidemics of typhoid and other disen diseases ases have been traced to the milk supply germs live annd multiply readily in milk if the or any one who handles the mill milk in its long tourney from the cow to the table L is a carrier of disease gen germs ris and he neglects to thoroughly wah his hands before touching the milk the result may be a sc ious epidemic absolute cleanliness should be the rule wherever milk is produced or handled for human use the common house fly has been called the typhoid fly although it is responsible for other diseases as well as typhoid during the spanish american war about one fifth of our soldiers in camp had typhoid fever medical authorities who made investigation renor reported ted that probably fifteen per cent of this infection was due to flies which carried filth and germs from the waste and dra drainage inaze of the camps to the food if flies were larger so that we ve could see the filth that they carry we would not tolerate them about us arf infected fectea water is a frequent source of epidemics surface wells and streams may become polluted by drainage from out ilo houses uses and camps water may look clean and yet be more dangerous than poison water food flies and fingers are the chief agencies in the transmission and spread of typhoid the elimination of danger from these sources requires personal care and community cooperation |