Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-17
THE TYPHOID TOLL.
Science Now Offers Means For Quick
DISCRIMINATING This Dreadful Dis
ease.

lp,ost a hsoi,tel,. preyent.d r.ithout tho
Iloost danger ia The hcalth mr. ron,fort
of the individual.
Vet ass eases If tyrhaia hsve oc-
lcurred i'm this city within the last nine
weeks as conpared with noS for the
same ported in 1910 an increase OF
nearly a00. In july alone SIS cases
lwere reported for greater New York. of
which nfty-six resulted fatally For
the week ended August II the number
rose to cighty-six, as against the regu-
lar average OF forty-four. And to top
| these alarming statistics DR.. Ledcrlc
of the Health Department., has put for
ward the Jobs comforter that there is
always more typhoid at this time of
the year.
The question is. Why, with a simpl"
means of prevention at hand. is it not
used at once 10 check this fearful dis
case?
| "Anti-typhoid vaccination. says
| Major +. I. Russell NJ, u, Medical
| Corps L :, Army, has long since
passed the experimental stage and the
time has come Nl1eu It's Is" should be
extended not merely in the military
service. but also among the civil popu-
lation."
| Regardless Of the sentiments of
those who may be opposed to vaccina-
ton as 4 preventive ot disease tho
United States army few days ago
recognized ii as of great value in the
prevention OF typhoid fever. On the
recommendation of DR. George II.
Torney, surgeon general of the United
| fRS SnPrpfarN
directed that every officer and enlisted
man under forty-five years of age shall
be vaccinated against typhoid fever,
unless he has already had the disease
or has been vaccinated. The splendid
health record of the troops sent TO San
| Antonio, Tex, when the Mexican civil
problem became acute. is looked upon
as a marked demonstration in favor of
this method of lighting this great mill
tary scourge. Every man had been
vaccinated
Before we can nearly appreciate the
oor,n1,shad h.. the introdnction of anti
| t.nhoia vaccination into our regular
army II &c necessary 10 take n look
HACK ar tho fatalities of an earlier day.
Snco,,ing generally. we can saw with
| .,,, 49, t,,,boia hos killed and
c,inn,aa moro soldiers in war time than
Lon tho ho,ohs ana bullets of the en-
or,,. In a,,r var with Spain. which
-, -. thraa ord :, balf months.
10 I'D NJ. go. than 10 73s cases,
t,.,.I, 15<o ,laatbe II, an army of fo7. 913
lnen-aho,it one case TO every five sol
diers Tho deaths from tvphoid con-
s,it,,tod SO nor cont of the total NOR
tolitu of that var
rha Rritish while fighting the Beers
in south Africa. had 81 900 cases. with
t-e-- dootbs In the Franco Prussian
yyor there ,yere a 9gs eases and S7S9
deaths although active hostilities were
go in civ months In the Union
-, ,,,r,ne The civil War we know of
ca ooa easas E,xan as late as 1908
. .u,yo ,sas rasnonsible for nine
ts,,+t,, ~ oil the deaths that occurred
among the troops eneamped in the
T+,,;ta5 s.tatas
|
| Most persons know that when patho-
| genie or disease forming germs enter
| into the circulation they are instantly
attacked by doughty warriors IN inc
blood called, for convenience, anu
bodies These apti-bodies, IKE az
other live substances. are developed by
| exercises, that Is to say, through exer-
else they Increase and multiply and at
the same time wax stronger II the
patient suffering with typhoid hNeS MS
anti bodies in the end overcome and
utterly rout his enemies, the typhoid
bacilli. and the change that has taken
place in his blood is usually perma-
nent. besides rendering him immune to
the fever for long time or for his en-
tire life thereafter.
| The problem of the scientists, there
fore, was TO discover some hletiiou =!
which they could cultivate the tspiio,a
anti bodies ana increase 'i,eh -,-l.a4
without, however siFiiis .he -
| typhoid fever. AS lar pdeh CO iooe , ~ -,
! foremost medleai men ~ .iii1
other countries We're NolAine
| ~ toward TINS emu, ,,,
Finally summons ana riais -,
ceeded IN 1mhuhiHpis ee, 10 IT.,
animals by injecting lueo e'ie a.