The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-05-05

millions of these tiny organisms daily.
Even after recovery the patient dis
charges them in the faces and
urine for weeks and sometimes even
years. A Well-known instance of ty-
phoid carrier was typhoid Mary, a
cook in New York. Everywhere she
cooked the people had typhoid. So
closely did the disease follow her
that she was examined and the typ
hold bacillus was found in her dis
charges. 1t is possible that there
are persons in this community who
though perfectly well may be dis
charging typhoid germs on the gropnd
| through some open closet, thus max
| ing it very easy for flies to transmit
the organism to the food of some
well person who tries to be cafeful.
! Typhoid fever like other diseases, is
| is no respector of persons, and will
attack a careful person just as quick
ly as a careless one if a loop-hole is
left for the entrance of the organ
isms. A man may have his house we'll
screened, but does he know that fly.
the milk man brought it into his
home? Does he know that the cook
did not let a fly accidentally take a
drink after the milkman did bring it
there? Of course, it might have been
clean fly, one that had washed its
feet beforehand, but on the other
hand it might have been one that
had just come from a repast on
human discharges laden with typhoid
bacteria. These things are perfectly
possible and as long as a community
has conditions making it easy for
flies to come in contact with human
discharges, just so long will it have
typhoid fever to contend with.
Typhoid fever is too costly for
community to allow it to be preva-
lent. An individual by being very
careful may keep it off for some
time, but it may creep in when he is
unaware and attack the most useful
member of his family, the conse-
quences of which, both as regards
the pocketbook and mental suffering,
it is needless to describe.
What is the remedy? AS a COM
munity we must do two things.
l. Make it impossible for flies to
come in contact with human dis
charges
2. Rid the community of flies.
AS individuals we must lend our
support to measures aiming to bring
about these conditions, and if one is
so unfortunate as to have the dis
| ease in his home, he must see to it
that all measures for protecting his
neighbors and the other members of
his family are carried out.
To meet the first condition we will
have to do away with the old style
open dry closet. When 1t is impos-
sibe to enter the sewer a sanitary
closet should be made so that the
discharges can be caught in a metal
receptacle, and kept from contaminat-
Ing the soil. Besides causing the
spread of typhoid fever the open |
closet has been responsible for the |
spread Of hookworm infection |
throughout the South. This alone
has caused a loss of not thousands
but millions of dollars.
The fly problem is more difficult.
Although some communities, especial
ly in Europe, have practically done
away with this pest, it means much
educational work by the good citf-
zens of the community It also
means that the good citizens must do
most of the work in Kidding the COM
munity Of flies because every per-
son who owns horse or cow must
take care of his manure before flies
can have a chance to grow in it. 1t |.
takes a fly about twelve to thirteen
days to hatch from the egg stage to -,
the full grown fly. If the manure
is taken away from town or is Sc
curely screened before the flies can
hatch out, the people viii find that
80 per cent of the flies will soon be /
gone, for this is where the great ma
jority of them breed.
In looking over a list several days
ago of men who own horses In the .
city it was noticed that some of the
best citizens had credit for mai +.
tanning stables in a bad condition. ,
The writer has also visited very re-
Gently several stables that are prob
ably better kept than many others
in town. Fly larvae were invariably
found in the manure piles outside. At
another stable where a very promi-
nent citizen keeps his COW the man
ure pile outside had numbers of fiv
larvae in it, and in the stable there
We're thousands of eggs. We cannot
get rid of flies until these conditions
are rectified. To rectify them is not
so much question of law as it is
the realization on the parte of every
individual citizen who owns or con-
trolls horses and COWS that he must
do his part
In the home where some person
has been unfortunate enough to con-
tract the disease every care should
be taken to dispose of the discharges
SO they cannot become a source of
danger. Under no circumstances