The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1908-12-23
STATE HEALTH BOARD
Will FIGHT TYPHOID
IN THE YAKIMA VALLEY
PERFECT PLANS FOR BIG WORK
President Phillip Frank Announces
That Details Will BE Arranged
AT January Session.

Typhoid fever in the Yakima vail
ley. from the Cascade tunnel "a Ken
newick, will be fought by the state
board of health. according to plans
that are being perfected by the ply
sicians that form this important state
body and DR. Phillip Frank. presi-
dent of the board. announced on
Tuesday that all of the details will
be worked out and arranged at the
annual meeting 10 be held in Olym-
pia during the first week in January
1909.
According to the preliminary plans
the entire state is to be districted
and the five members Of the state
board will each take a section for
personal supervision. In the Yakima
valley district. especial attention IS
TO be given TO the subject of typhoid
fever.
Other sections. in which there is
pronounced trouble from other dis
eases. will he given attention along
those lines. For some there will be
combats against tuberculosis, in 9TH
ers the battle will be against dinh-
liberia. while the coast states will
have the fight against the bubonic
and other ocean port plaques.
mentions the plans of the state board
of health in an editorial as follows:
According to DR.. Phillip FRANK
of North Yakima. member OF the
state board of health. typhoid fever
has cost the state of Washington be-
tween $500 600 and 500 900 annL-
ally. not to mention the heavy loss
of life. The state board is to ask
the legislature TO make provision for
commissioner who will direct the
fight against typhoid and tubercIIo-
SIS. a vigorous effort will be made
to discover the cause of typhoid II
Yakima valley. and a campaign Will
be waged against flies, vermin ono
rodents, from the Cascade tunnel TO
kennewick
This is campaign which certain
~ should be started. The people Of
the Yakima valley are unduly sensi-
tive in regard to any mention OF the
presence Of typhoid fever in thai
otherwise delightful region. They
resent illusions to it. as though such
illusions were made in a spirit of
hostility. As a matter of fact, the
wider publicity given to the facts,
tie more certainty is there that TIC
disease will be completely eradicatel.
Typhoid is clearly preventable dis
ease. If the sources of contagion
are discovered, the prevention of the
disease will be a comparatively easy
matter, involving the application OF
no new theories and not an extrao :
binary amount OF expenditure.
Yakima county has a death rate
from typhoid fever that is above nor
NAL. There is nothing in climatic
conditions or environment to cause a
higher death rate from this cause in
Yakima county than there is any
where else The state board knows
that the death rate from typhoid can
be reduced TO the normal, even IL the
disease is not eradicated wholly.
1.-THE crusade against typhoid fever
will be of immense advantage to the
entire Yakima valley. because. If sue
cessful, as it should be, it will re-
move the one and only objection
which can he urged against that val
ley as q place Of residence Typhoid
has been kept within the normal else
where. II can be put there readily
enough in the Yakima valley"