Bisbee daily review., 1910-10-19
TYPHOID FEVER BEING HALTED
 AT INCEPTION

DOUGLAS. Oct 1s.-(Special-
 Innoculation as a preventive of ty- phoid fever is late step in medical progress. It is being experimented with satisfaction and success in many portions of the United States, besides in the armies of ths country, Great Britain and Europe and is being at tempted here in Douglas, where no evil results from the innoculation have appeared and where a number have been made probably immune from the attacks of the disease. Authorities agree that while typhoid will always be with us to some ex- tent there is neither reason nor ex- cuse for its prevalence in certain To- calities. nor in the armies to the ex- tent that It has prevailed in the past. Small pox was formerly a dread plague. yet by almost universal vac cination it has been years since there has been severe and dangerous epi- demic of this disease that was once such scourge in any civilized city So it is expected will ul timeatly be the case with ty- phoid fever when the use of anti-ty
 phoid shall have become nearly so
 common as is vaccination against smallpox
 Investigations with anti-typho.d have l been in progress for at least fourteen years with steadily increasing sue cess. At first these were carried
 on almost exclusively in the armies.
 where the ravages of typhoid fever have been most severe. In the pc
 riod of three and one-half years up
 to June. 1908. the experiments of
 Leishmann along this line covered
 5473 soldiers innoculated against the
 disease, of whom only 2i afterward were affected by the disease and of these but two d.ed. On the other
 hand out of 66l0 soldiers observed | under practically the same conditions,
 cases and there were 26 deaths. That I is among the inhocuiated the percent ] age Of typhoid cases were 3.S to 1000 and among the un-innoculated
 2S.3 to the thousand. Among those 1 innoculated it was found that when
 the disease was contracted it was of shorter duration and milder in from. At Peshwar, in India, according to Colonel Skinner an actual epidemic Of typhoid fever was actually cut short by the innoculation of 70 per cent. of the soldiers of the post. Out of S510 persons vaccinated with
 anti-typhoid in the '. S. army, ac- cording to Major Russell. there were
 but few severe reactions and no bad results were reported. During the past year anti-typho:d vaccination was conducted at the Massachusetts gen eraI hospital. where Dr. Spooner re- ports that in January last alone he yaccinated and observed 100 cases and the reactions were almost nil. lit- tie or no suffering or inconvenience. This is a matter of importance to the average person who would un- dergo innoculation but for the fear of suffering or inconvenience This h the result observed in over $500 eases of innoculation among people all over the United States, among whom not one afterward developed typhoid fever.
 The observations of those who are experimenting are therefore that anti typhoid innoculation reduces the dan ser of infection to a minimum ana that with time and general usage ty- phoid fever will become as uncom- mon as is smallpox today.
 The last season found typhoid more prevalent throughout the United States than for several years past. There were a number of cases of dis ease here in Douglas despite the i'm proved sanitary condition and the theory of innoculat'on against the dis ease is one which is worth the while of the average person to investigate wherever he or she may be living.
 Advocates of innoculation maintain that there is no reason why in the course of a few years typhoid fever may not be practically unknown in th's city for by it typhoid bearers, those who are always carrying the germs with them while not down with the disease, are rendered harm less.
 The theory Is that prevention as well as cure is the highest function of the practice of medicine.