The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-08-22

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Isolation. The probability o
transmitting the infection OF "
phoid lever is in direct proportion
TO the number OF persons allowed
about the sick room. This shoulC
not I've overlooked as it is so ire
qnently IN this locality, where tn,
custom seems to be to crowd tn,
sick room to its standing capacity
Were the patient sick from tn,
bite OF a rattlcsnakc and the rcptil,
still in the room there would b,
very few sympathizing friends Their,
to see the patient. and vet, OF ever,
ten persons who go and sit by q
typhoid lever patient, one OF the
ten gets bitten tv the invisibl,
snake which is at all times present
there. This is not only true oil
typhoid, but even more so OF many
OF the other more infectious dis.
eases as diphtheria and scarlet
fever.
Even where great care is taken
the bacllli may get out OF the sick
room and hence the household must
take still further steps to prevent
injection and to this end the kitch.
Tn should be screened to prevent
the access to the food OF flies which
might come from the sick room, or
watercloset or privev, in which the
patients discharges are finally de.
posted.
}. Duties OF the Public Au.
thoritlcs. The duties OF the house.
hold YOU see are directed towards
the prevention OF the spread OF the
injection to Us immediate members.
SO, the duties OF the public auth.
critics are TO prevent contamina.
ton OF the community. IL is i'm.
possible tor the board OF health to
prevent the occurrence OF isolated
cases, but their duty is to prevent
ITS becoming epidemic.
This they do by. nlec.
ton OF the premises in which the
disease occurs.
a BY selection OF a pure water
supply and careful examination OF
tins supply from time to time to
insure IT'S remaining pure.
!. Bv the construction OF n good
sewerage system.
t.. By inspection OF the daries
and markets.
S. by maintaining general
cleanliness OF the city.
Their duty IN regard to the wa
ter supply rs out OF all proportion,
the most important, since IN nine
cases out OF ten, typhoid is co n.
munlcatcd by this means.
have told you that the lack OF
typhoid death rate IN a community
he taken as an index OF the
progressIvcness.
In this We OF the United States
are much behind tie Europeans,
who, on account OF their crowded
have long ago rrcog.
niZed what we are only now be.
ginning 70 see, the necessity OF
purifying their water supply.
Contrast the death rate in zoos
tor every 100, 600 persons OF Berlin
5.& Dresden 81. Lcipscg "a:
Philadelphia S.; Washington
;; Baltimore g.; and Pitt,burg
-. MI over 100 times greater
than the German cities.
II must be- said in Iustic, 10
OF those cities, they a., now
At work on the Improvement Of
their water systems.
Well waters are dangerous
tor drinking purposes; par.
,lcular!} the shallow ones. They
A., a necessity IN thu country but
ln.ess over so feet IN depth and in
soil should not be- used
without boiling. Tins Is par,rc.
so It they are IN the vicinity
a ccsspoOl, priyyy 9r stable.
and ccs,pOyls are also
Necessary IN III. country but IN a
own where there IS a sewerage
'yst"m, they are a relic u harha.
ISM, and not only a menace u the
health u the family using them
,ut also T. their nclghbors On
very side. They should 70.
You have seen that the typhoid
'aclllus is not killed by freezing
therefore ice MAY be- a means u
transmitting the d isease.
The tact that ice Is made ar,i.
from distilled water does
lot mean that il may not be con.
animated, as II may become so by
handling.
In I9o2 81 persons took the dis.
IN the 81. Lawrence hospital
It Ogdenburg, New YORK, on ac.
cunt Of the ice having been put
iown on the door step OF the hos.
yital, where a iew minutes before
nurse had placed a Slop pail con.
water in which n typhoid
patient had been bathed, and in
lat,lng u down some OF the water
lad stopped over onto the steps.
The duties OF educators regard
.ng typhoid fever should be- simply
they should themselves know
the cause Of the disease; and the