Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-04-15
SUMNER SWARN|Nc
Secretary Of State Health Board
Issues First Bulletin,
DANGER OF TYPHOID FEVER
Tells People Of Iowa That Danger
Turks in Water, Ice and Milk
Food Products Must Be
Clean.
DANGER OF TYPHOID FEVER

Des Moines, Apr 9.--The Iowa state
board of health, through its organ,
the quarterly health bulletin, sends
out its spring warning to the people
to be careful of typhoid fever, or
rather, to take pains to see that con-
ditions from which typhoid arises are
not tolerated.
The statement Of the board, through
its secretary, DR.. G. H. Sumner, is as
follows:
Typhoid fever is prevalent during
the autumn, winter and spring
months. 1t is germ disease. 1t Is
contracted by ingestion of typhoid
germs in water, milk, dairy products,
oysters, and fancy foods that come
in contact with infected water and
milk These germs are contained IN
the excretions of typhoid patients.
Our water supply may be contami-
mated by family sewerage. surface
drainage or unsanitary surroundings.
Our food may be infected through
the medium of flies.
Typhoid fever is preventable.
Boil drinking water, if there is the
least suspicion tlat it is contaminat-
ed.
Watch the source of your ice sup
ply.
Look after your milk supply and all
dairy products
1t is we'll to remember that large
percentage of the, dairy herds are
Infected with tuberculosis, hence it
Is absolutely essential that all cities
and municipalities should have milk
inspection ordinance.
Waterloo, Iowa. furnishes the best
example of milk inspection, with
which we are acquainted, within the
state.
Investigate the waterloo way"
In this connection Secretary Sum-
ner also calls, the attention OF the
mayors and health officers to the fact
that they are the guardians of the
public health and have power to see
that meat, water and milk are pure.
He also points out that it is necessary
to have clean streets, alleys and back
yards to keep sickness from the
homes.
His notice is as follows:
You are the guardians of the public
health in your community, therefore,
it is necessary for you to remember
that clean streets, alleys, back yards,
and homes are all conducive in keep
ing sickness from your people.
The food products must and ought
to be clean, pure and wholesome
water, milk and meat. All these are
disease producers if infected with
disease heterogeneous 1t is posi-
BILE to have these three food prod
ucts under municipal supervision.
Enough said-it should be done-do It.
Peaches and Raspberries injured.
Des Moines, Iowa.-Peach trees
were badly injured and raspberry
canes have been killed to the ground
as the result of the frosts following
| the warm weather, according to q
statement issued by Wesley Greene,
state horticulturist. The statement
gives the condition of fruit trees and
plants on April and is as follows:
| Apples IS per cent; pears, 80;
American plums, SO; domestic plums,
20; Japanese plums, SO; cherries, 80;
peaches, 3; grapes, so; red raspber-
ries, So; black raspberries, 80; black
berries, 65, and strawberries, 66.
Peach trees are badly injured in
many places; raspberry canes are
killed to the ground in some locali-
ties; climbing roses are also damag-
ed. The injury to trees and plants is
attributed to the freeze in October
which caused the leaves to fall before
the wood was mature. followed by
warm, wet weather which pushed bud
development on the defoliated plants
too far in the fall to withstand the
winter.
The bloom on plum and cherry
trees is two weeks in advance OF
1871, the earliest record we have
since the society was organized.
Husband and Wife Dead.
Mrs. Louis Burkhardt Of Oska-
loosa, who is well known in Des
Moines, died after short illness
from pneumonia. Her husband sue,
cumbed to the same disease just
twenty-four hours before her death,
Mrs. Halioran Dead.
Mrs. Catherine Halloran, one Of the
pioneers of Des Moines, died at her
home, 1853 West Eighth street. Mrs.
Halloran had been resident of Des
Moines since 1856 Survivors are
four sons and one daughter.
Hamilton Is Secretary.
John J. Hamilton, candidate for
the republican nomination for gov
ernor before the primaries two years
ago, was unanimously elected score
tary of the Iowa Constitutional Pro-
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