La Junta tribune., 1908-03-14

IL lcSus VII AoA4 oHos 40 IL never
wipes its feet. the interesting re-
suits can be imagined. More def
nitely. flies have been caught in the
houses of typhoid patients. put un-
der the microscope and their feet.
stomach and specks found swarIriing
with typhoid bacilli. A single fly
speck may contain three thousand
Fortunately, we have simple and
effective remedy. We cannot disin
feet the fly. nor make him wipe his
feet, but we can exterminate him
utterly. This sounds difficult, but il
isn't. Like the mosquito. the fly
can only breed in one particular
kind of place. and that place j. a
heap OF dirt preferably horse ma
nure. but. at a pinch. dust-bins. gar
bage-cans. sweepiugs under porches
or behind furniture, vaults any
where that dirt is allowed to remain
undis,urbed for more than week
at a stretch. Abolish. screen or
poison these dirt accumulations. and
flies will disappear, and with them
not merely risks from typhoid. but
half dozen other diseases, as well
as all sorts of filth and much dis
comfort and inconvenience.
The best remedy is to destroy the
disease altogether, and this could be
done in five years by intelligent con-
certed effort. 1t was at one time
supposed that typhoid fever was
disease exclusively confined to adult
life: but it is now known to occur
frequently in children, though often
in such mild and irregular form as
to escape recognition. Something
like 10 per cent. of all cases occur
between the fifteenth and the
fortieth year. and it is. for some
reason. though rarer. peculiarly
serious and more often fatal after
the fiftieth year. Saturday Even
ing Post.
The article Immediately preceding
appeared in the last issue of the
Saturday Evening Post and was
written BY Woods Hutchinson. A.
NJ, NJ. ID. After careful perusal
IL is natural to arrive at the conclu-
sion that it is possible to prevent a
recurring visitation of the dread
epidemic of typhoid fever in La Jun
Ia providing the necessary sanitary
precautions are taken. An ounce Of
prevention. in this instance, is worth
a million pounds of cure. And right
now is the proper time to inaugur-
ate vigorous measures along sani-
tary lines to eradicate the cause of
typhoid fever in this community.
Eternal vigilance is the pricee&f
health as well as liberty.
1t is the duty Of the city council
to inaugnrate campaign of pre-
vention" at once. Every street and
alley should be thoroughly cleaned
from stem to stern; property
owners who are negligent as regards
cleanliness about their premises
should be made to clean up back
yards and ashpits and there are
some of the latter in this town
which smell unto the dome of
heaven, and are foul enough to in
feet the atmosphere of Swink. The
good work that has already been
dohe IN enforcing the provisions of
the sewer ordinance and requiring
property owners to connect with the
sewer should be continued. as ac-
cording to the article quoted above,
the protection of our water and
milk supplies against the contagion
of sewage is of the most vital as
well as of primary Importance.
La Junta should also have a milk
inspector and garbage wagon.
Last year it was claimed. and the
facts apparently substantiated the
claim. that majority of the cases
of typhoid fever in this city were
traceable to the milk supply from a
single dairy. Owing to the precau-
tions as regards the milk supply in
Greater New York, it is claimed in
the article above. that in the past
five years there has not been al
single epidemic of typhoid fever
traceable to milk in that city. 1t is