Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-19

and treatment of typhoid fever that is of value to people everywhere. but, which is of especial value to the peo- ple of Pine Bluff at this time. It is an old and wise saying that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" and the Graphic would, there fore, advise it's readers to carefully nXferye this document, paste it "in tyefr scrap book and heed it's teach ings. The bulletin is as follows;
 10 the health officials, physicians and people of Kentucky: This board again feels it to be duty to call the earnest attention of our health author ities and people to the increasing prevalence and mortality from typhoid fever and to the consequent growing importance of the constant use of the methods endorsed and confirmed by scientific research and observation for the prevention of the disease. 13,305 cases of this disease and 1,579 deaths
 
 chiefly confined to people in the prime of life and usefulness. The cost of caring for those sick of it, to say noth- inK of the sorrow, suffering and loss 0fS life, for the year, is reported as being $963,75o
 Typhoid fever is probably the most SA1yon mi fob of oil exeepting smallpox. It is now known that, like cholera and disentery, the germs of the disease are contained only in tine discharges from the bow eB and kidneys of those sick of it, 9Ad that 1t is necessary for person to swallow some of such discharges, or things polluted by them, in some $ way. in order to contract the disease. Khey usually gain entrance to the Rstem through infected water from 99s ells or streams draining inhabitated sxeas, and polluted by infected fecal . Bitter, OF such matter may be carried M flies and deposited On the food, SAA'54i'' 64it idiiuS III ulSCIttllGu tchens and dining rooms. The S erms may also be carried on the S4 Pnds of careless attendants. OF on j lled clothing, or indirectly. by us- |& E milk or other articles of uncooked K pa or drink from cans and vessels " Rshed ln infected water. Ice from IectpI W9tar yS ol do
 has been proven that freezing does
 XII the germs. A large volume
 water may be infected from one T Pse, and, if already polluted with |ganic matter becomes ready cul-
 re fluid for the multiplication of the erms. In the now noted epidemic
 Plymouth, Penn, involving the cKness of 1,104 persons, and the Path or ll4, the outbreak was traced
 the use of water from stream
 1ected by the discharges from one ppofted case, The recent disas- ous epidemic at Ithaca, New York, using many deaths, and requiring
 suspension of Cornell university. as traced 10 the use of a public Wa supply similarly infected
 oh the other hand, in the distress E and fatal epidemic which cluns to af military camps at Chckamausa, a'np Mead, Montauk Point, and oth-
 places, during the SpanishAmerj- an War flies were found to he inc
 'Neipai carriers of the disease by
 united States commission ap- oihtea to investigate the origin of the u'ofeaks By the use of white now er sprlnkled over the discharges in
 e latrlnes, thousands of these pests ere traced direct from these and Duio covering the food, hands and uenslls in the kitchens and mess
 "s ol the common soldiers. Gull
 'aKen from the feet, legs, bills.
 intestlnes of these flies showed ae germs of typhoid fever in count as numbers. The kitchens and mess oonls of the officers were screened lu 'ney almost uniformity escaped the 'Sedse Other facts no less conv;nc. as 10 both water and flies being ;s,: !iefs Of this disease might be mul- p''eo indefinitely, if space permitted
 siiilllar way, they must be com ,io ion m the experience of most physi- aus Tn active practive.
 "ased upon the teachinos of tho Isra eso,ns facts' the following rules ho oeen prepared with care for . su.dance of all persons interested
 'uelr own and the public health: bat When it is known or suspected Rbor,a person has typhoid fever, he ilota t'a De placed in a large, we'll ven- aoau ,eu room, with the windows and
 well screened and such nra-