The Washington times., 1905-08-22
Contaminated Milk.

Or it may be that the farmer keeps
few cows, and every day he sends
to the railroad station few cans OF
milk This milk very often is strained
and prepared for shipping in the kitchen
or outhouse where the soiled clothing
has been careIessIy thrown awaiting a
convenient opportunity for washing.
When the milk cans come back they are
rinsed out with the contaminated water
and usually a small quantity of it re-
mains iii the can, and the milk is thus
poisoned by the germ. This, briefly, is
the way typhoid fever originates. and
is carried by the water courses or milk
supply TO our large cities.
Now let US follow the germs TO the
city. After they have been brought here
in the water or milk, they are carried
around from point TO point by the
myriads OF flies. A rosy-Zheeked, full
blooded boy or girl the life of the house
and the hope of the parents. comes in
from school or play, warm and thirsty
He goes to the hydFant and drinks and
drinks, without thought of danger, Or
his indulgent mother gives him a glass
of cool, raw milk. A few weeks go by
and we are shocked TO hear that Willie
or Mary is down with the typhoid fever.
The house is not screened from flies.
You can find them all over the house.
feeding avariciOusly upon substances
which should have been screened from
street or next door is a bakery or meat
shop, to which these same flies have
free access. The poison germs are car
ried on their feet TO the bread or rolls,
meat and vegetable, or fruit, and away
they go by and by in the delivery
wagon to another part of the city, con-
VeyirQ the contagion to a hitherto
healthy locality. where the same process
is repeated.
This is no fancy sketch Every word
I have written has been demonstrated
Oh.
tion to be true.
The report OF the army commission
which Investigated the cause of the up
ward of 20009 cases of typhoid which
ing the Spanish war clearly showed
that the fly was the chief cause of
that awful epidemic. only a fly
speck." but il may carry disease and
suffering death and bereavement into
many a happy home. for the bacillus
typhOsus Is known to pass unchanged
common house fly, carrying with 1t all
of it's virulent death-dealing character
istics.
What can we do to stamp out this
/ Boil every drop Of water thorough
" that is to enter the stomach. This
should be done in restaurants and ho-
tells and the Government departments
as well as in private houses.
2 Boil all milk that is used Do not
drink raw milk.
s. Eat no raw oysters or vegetables,
and peel all fruit.
+ Screen absolutely from the house
fly and reaches every typhoid fever pa
tient. his clothing. and bedding and
dejecta-in fact, everything that comes
from the sickroom. \ teaspoon from
which the patient has taken his medi-
cine. If exposed 70 fly may dissent
nate the disease.
). Protect all food from contact with
the fly.
6 AS horse manure has by expert
mental research been proved TO be the
faVOrite breeding place for house flies
and as ii IS responsible for % per cent
of all the flies in a community. it is OBJ
vious that strict precautions should be
taken against the accumulation of this
material and its proper screening from
flies. HENRY q. HALL