New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1906-09-22
TYPHOID FEVER.

1He ADVICE given by Or. Fred j.
Mayer special Medical Inspector OF
the State Board of Health to the
people of Sabine Parish, where an
extremely fatal epidemic of Ty-
phoid ragged for while is equally
applicable to all other communities
where this dreaded disease makes
its appearance. From the Times
Democrat of the 8th of August we
quote the remarks Of DR.. Mayer at
the Antioch mass meeting.
typhoid fever is a commune
able, preventible disease, due to
the organism cache, the bacillus ty-
phosis being taken into the mouth,
passing from there into the intest-
inc. 1t primarily affects the lynn
phatic tissues, but its action is
dual, local action of the bacillus
on the glands of the intestine and
a general action of the organism
on the blood hence the organism
may be found distributed through
out the organs and tissues of the
body, especially in the infamed
lymphoid tissues, in the meseuteric
glands, in the liver, spleen and
kidneys, and even in the rose-col-
ored eruption and bed sores. This
eruption is most usually present,
but not invariably so-about the
end of the first or commencement
of the second week of the disease.
This bacillus HYPNOSIS, or ebarth's
bacillus, as it is sometimes called,
Celebrates soluble poison called
typho-toxion, which produces the
fever, infames the Emphatic
glands, affects the heart and pro-
foundly influences the nervous
system to such an extent that the
older French writer's called it ner-
vous fever. In the early stages of
the disease the spleen is invariably
enlarged; very evident in the sec
ond week. In the sudorIal forms
of typhoid fever, recurring parox-
ysms of chill fever and sweat of an
intermittent character occur, and
in the bilious type nassau and vo-
hitting are the chief symptoms.
While these symptoms are not COM
mon in the disease, there are in
stances where they are pronounced
from the outset. 1t is the sudorlal
and bilious types so freqently mis-
taken for the aestevo autumnal or
pernicious types of malaria. In
this connection it must not be for
gotten that both malaria and ty-
phold frequently coexist in the
same patient, the pathology of the
drst ruling in the beginning until !
by quinia or other an
tiperiodica, when the symptoms of
the more insidious typhoia are I'M
masked and become evident. The
bacillus Of typhoid is probably
found in all the discharges of the
body; hence these should be re-
igiously dislnfected. The focal
are loaded with the
oacilli, the urine frequently so
when albuminous. The mouth
'ecretions sometimes contain tLem,
md in the act of coughing the
,acilli may infect the surround ing
lir.
"The bowel discharges should
,e disinfected preferably With
hlorimated lime containing 25 per
ent of available :hlorine; six
unces to the gallon OF wa;er.
Jext to this inefficacv an or ltuary
lacked lime whitewaSh is the
heapest and best disiufectant'
OR urine a l in 500 bichloride of
1ercury solution aeidulated with {
ydrocloric or tartaric acid, or Il 5 S
er ceut solution of carbullc acid
r formahn, allowing them to ,
tand three hours, except III the
ase, of the mercurlc sulatjon,
hitch should stand six honrs IN a
losed vessel, and lien huti led /
eeply and covered. This is cry t
Important practical point The
ERIN of typhoid is very reslslont,
nd will live in water, earth, air, d
wage, dust of the roads, or bed e
ing, clothing or food or water hat O
as become infected directly or in D
rectly from the sick, The =
atel supply and the common !
,nse II are perhans the most oct. U