The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-18

fever and we have caused it, although
we may not be aware of ii. This oc-
casional chronic carrier Of typhoid is
the element that keeps the disease al
WAYS with us From this individual tbs
disease may break ont at a0y point at
any time, For there are and always
will be people who handle the food or
the effects of others without first wash
| ing their hands. The nDwashed hands
of housemaids and housekeepers result
in death Of thousands Of people every
year.
''Typhoid Msrys.''
There is the case Of "Tvrhoid Mary
in New York. She was cook III napv
households Wherever she went tYnhoid
followed in her wake. She had suffered
from the disease manv Years ngo and
the germs uersisted in her svStcm' TheV
got into the food Of the families ~
which she worked. for il is suspected
that Mary was not ovcr-Zcalous rs To
cleanliness Tn thc end She was tested
for the germs, found TO possess them,
and isolated
There are thousands of "Tvphn'd
Marys' running about the country.
Some member Of your household.
neighbor Il servant. may be carrier
of the disease 1t is becau5e Of these
that the complaint crops out year after
year in MANY places. J?'it for this 1t
could be nut 10 rort The army sur"
geons have applied the test 10 thousands
of individuals selected at random and
in two or three per cert the menace has
been found
If The "Tvnhod Marvsr were care
fnl as to cleanliness. they would no
longer be II menace. But thev are mot
careful and therefore the body polite
must protect itself against them. The
army medical school is demonstrating
that this may be done through vacciaa-
tion.
Then there is the brand new phase OF
the work. These men of the army haze
recently attacked the disease itself
through vaccinations When an indi'
vidual is found to have typhoid he is
tion develops more rapidly than does
: the disease It's object and effect is the
DEVELOPMENT Of an antitoxin. an ele-
ment in the blood that will make the
disease ineffective. The idea is new
and the men Of science who are hand
| ling it refuse to make any statement
until it has been demonstrated over and
over again that it is effective. IL may
be said. however, that some marvellous
cures have been effected in this way.
: They would indicate that vaccination
Z may reduce typhoid which has already
. developed to a disease that is Of but
\ half the force that it has under tho old
: methods.
v Benefit Of Vaccination.
g So the men of the medical school of
=. the army are getting to the point where
T they are willing to stake their reputa
s tions on the benefit of vaccination. They
believe that they have proved as sci
T entific fact that this is the method In
n which the disease should be fought
n They believe that the system will be the
d means Of saving some hundreds Of thou
1t sands of good American lives and that
e this is no mean accomplishment. They
IS know. further, that the value of their
q demonstrations will depend largely upor
e an understanding of them getting to the
people for the time will probably nevel
'e come when this sort Of vaccination vii
1t be mandatory.
IT So, they hold, the man who tells tn,
is story of the new method may save mort
n lives than all the Carnegie heroes We
y enumerated, The government has pre-
o. pared vaccine in abundance and will
'e freely furnish it To practitioners il
d whom it has confidence, men whom the,
s. believe will handle it properly and wht
q will agree to report results. 1t is being
d scattered broadcast in this way and sooI
n all the world may come under its bene
ne fcent effects.