The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-09-30

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entire bulletin from the Board in the
hope that the warning may stir the
people to take the excellent advice
offered. Secretary Beatty says:
"The June bulletin issued July 10Th,
called attention to the approach OF
the typhoid season, and urged the
adoption of precautions by means OF
which the disease might be pre-
vented.
Unfortunately many have neglected
these measures as shown by the re-
port incomplete) of one hundred and
seventy-fve cases, including eights
deaths, during the month OF August.
The prevalence of this distressing and
deadly disease is daily increasing
throughout the State, and unless re-
striCted will continue TO increase from
week TO week during the next three
or four months Before the end OF
that period hundreds of people now
well and unconscious of danger Will
be stricken and scores will die.
In their death certificates should be
inserted as the cause of death, MA N
LIGHTER IL each individual
case some other person will have been
positively and directly responsible for
the death. Again let it be repeated
and emphasized that typhoid fever
cannot be caused by anything else ex-
cept the typhoid organisms which are
given Off in the excreta OF a previous
case. The law demands that this
material shall be disnfected and fail
ure to do so constitutes INSIDE
meanor. 1t should instead be made
felony, and the penalty strictly en-
forced Why should an individual be
permitted to scatter poison, which
is liable to find its way to the system
Of another and destroy him, with less
penalty attached to the crime than
that which would be inflicted were he
TO fire gun at random into crowd OF
people, killing one or more? The lat
ter death would be more merciful, as
IL would be free from the agony &C
companying typhoid fever.
An educated public sentiment
should demand that the crime Of dis
seminating typhoid fever shall cease,
and that the law requiring the simple
and effective measures described shall
be enforced 1t is the duty OF health
officers and physicians in attendance
in every case to instruct people as TO
the requirements of the law and TO
see that they are carried out, but
ignorance OF the law and the dis
aStrouS consequences liable to result
from its violation should not toe
allowed to eXtenuate. Every such
violation that Is discovered should be
followed by rigid prosecutions, and
persons ignorant or Indifferent as TO
the consequence OF their failure to safe.
guard the lives of Others made to
realize the gravity of their oifenSe
In this connection. health officers are
urged to enforce without mercy the
law requiring physicians and Others
to report typhoid fever, as without
the information thus obtained restric-
tive measures cannot be enforced or
the source OF the disease intelligently
investigated.
The usual channel through which
the typhoid germ is conveyed is the
drinking water, and it is the duty OF
citizens generally, and especially of
the local authorities, to safeguard the
water supply. When undisinfected
typhoid fever excreta are deposited in
the usual receptacles, all wells in the
vicinity become at once a menace To
those who drink the water. A very
large proportion of typhoid fever be.
sides other serious maladieS occurring
in this State result from the fore.
going conditions. In most of the
towns this dangerous evil may easily
Oe lcueuleu as nature mas provided
close at hand mountain springs and
streams OF pure water which may be
utilized at minimum cost. Failure
TO take advantage of the privilege is a
rejection upon the intelligence OF
those IN authority and the community
which elects them TO Office. If the citi
zens of these towns would arouse then
selves and make pure water sup.
ply and the public health a politica
issue, it would not be long until scores
of towns, now condemned to polluted
wells and bitches and their attendant
evils, would rejoice in a pure water
system and the safety, comfort and in
creased prosperity secured thereby.