The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-23
Miscellaneous.
-r-vvIC MANAGEMENT OF TYPHOID
FEVER.

fn1 unHlnAlE u 49,
.-,boid fever and other diseases
- and around Albemarle, hav-
their origin in germs and filth
.bst are more liable to occur at
-, sasson of the year, l have been
,,asted by the editor and several
Eor citizens who have the welfare
.1s neople and town at heart, to
he = few hygienic suggestions
-r.rabv the people may take proper
~,.r+ions. not only for the proven
and spread of these diseases,
80 which. if carried out, will be of
7sr benefit to those who are al
..,7r afflicted. The old saying that
,.,rinass j. next to godliness" is
lass true to day than it was when
mas written many hundreds OF
~,.rs 400. and indeed may say that
mora true since the centers OF
,,nn7ation are more numerous and
--,etar today than at any other
--r,a since the world began. In the
-,1rse of this article 1 shall direct
remarks principally to the ny
-ianic management of typhoid fever,
-;ros this Is n of the most virulent,
and what measures apply to it will
also apply to other diseases OF a ike
infectious nature.
make the statement to begin with
that typhoid is not a contagious dis
asse in the same sense that measles,
MINUS. whooping-cough smallpox,
AFRO are and l mean by this that
simply going to visit or being in the
sam. room with it is not sufficient
to bring on a case, but that in order
70 have typhoid fever it must enter
the bowels either by eating or drink
mo If. The fact that we have so
many cases of typhoid fever stamps
rs as a careless people, for to a very
Iarge extent it is a p~reventable dis
ease When we have 5 of small
D0x. a. we now have, we isolate
them and quarantine against the
families with which they have been
living and yet there is in North
Carolina probably more than fifty
deaths from typhoid fever to "A of
small ON. 1t is not practicable or
necessary for cases Of typhoid fever
to be isolated or the houses quaran-
tined. But with proper precautions
the inmates of u house in which
there Is d case of fever T just as
safe from taking it as if the case was
in another house, and the chances of
their taking can be reduced TO a
minimum at least. But to do this
YOU must be clean. In the first place,
visitors and those who are not absO-
IuteIy necessary for the care Of the
patient should be excluded from the
room, as they only worry and tire
the sick one and do absolutely no
good. One good nurse Is worth q
hundred visitors. A liberal ~prjnk-
ling IF the room with a sOlutiOU Of
carbOlic acid will effeCtually Kill all
the germs which have lodged there
This can be bought at any drug store
for ten cents an ounce, and an ounce
will be sufficient for two gallons of
water. This will, besides, purify
the atmosphere in the room. The
main place from which Uphold fever
spreads Is from the excrement of
those who are sick, and if we take
preCaution here we strike the fOun-
tain head of the trouble. You can
buy two draohms of corrosive sub
Innate (bichlOride of mercury for
twenty-five cents add this 30 five
gallons of water and after each evac-
uation from the bowels pour on just
enough to cover, let set for half an
hour and all the germs will be killed.
But to be extra precautions there
should be u hole at least two feet
deep dug, and all the excrement put
IN this and covered with dirt.
Now for the other rooms of the
house, they should have plenty of
air, all the bed clothes put in the sun
at least three times Il week. A good
sprinkliug of Platt's chlorides (Which
Can be obtained almost anywhere
every day, will, besides acting as a
germioide, render the atmos phere
pure and clean. The laundry for a
fever case should always be b0ile3
and never with the laundry of the
familY. The sick ones shnnld have