The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-08-15
VACCINATION IN
!. TYPHOID CASES IS
ENDORsEDBY BOARD
DR.. r. q. LlLLARD ISSUES STATE
MENT THROUGH THE
PRESS.
PREVENTION IS DISCOVERED
System Has Been Adopted by the Ar
my and Navy and Remedy No
Longer Regarded by Medical scten-
lists Being in Experimental Stage.

II
NASHVILLE, Aug. 9.-Dr. R. @
Lillard yesterday gave out the fol
lowing concerning the typhoid fevel
Situation in the state and the advisa
Ibility of typhoid vaccination:
AT this particular time and season
|of the year the state board of health
Is being constantly beseiged with nu
Emerous letters of inquiry concerning
the efficacy and adyisability of ty
Ephoid vaccination, and l know OF nc
better method Of answering these nu
.merous inquiries than through the
columns of the press. couched in such
language as the laity can con.pre.
bend.
Typhoid vaccination Is no longer
in it's experimental stage, but, in my
backed Dip by statistics, it
prevents typhoid fever. Barring the
great white plague, there is no more
prevalent disease than ty-
phoid fever. Its continuance and
prevalence is due to the character
and prevalence Of the typhoid bacil-
lus, its accessibility to our diversi-
fed food and water supplies and its
ability TO remain alive, or even thrive
and multiply there.
Science has clearly and unques-
demonstrated the fact in re-
cent years that victims Of typhoid fe-
yer may long after apparently COM
plete recovery continue to discharge
myriads Of the germs in the excre-
rnents from the body, and thus con-
tinue az great, or possibly a still
greater, menace to pablo health than
hey were during the active stage Of
his dangerous malady-
."Until public health work shall
nave progressed SO far as to release
Ill patients having suffered from ty.
ohoid fever from observation only
after thorough laboratory examina~
ions have demonstrated all body ex~
such as urine and feces,
rec from the germs, we wiz have ty~
,hoid carriers among us, and they
will sooner or Later become the means
If disseminating the disease among
,thers.
Typhoid In NO longer necessary; a.
rev method of prevention in yacci-
lation has ben discovered and Prov
ID efficient beyond the question O.
loubt. DIR. william Litterer, bacreri-
,logist fol this state board Of Rsalth,
las prepared most excellent paper
N the subject Of vaccination against
Uphold fever which he will gladly
urnish to alb desiring it. Typhoid
Is accomplished by inject
ng into the body. preferably the arm,
nree oine san tss ihterVaiS
ahioul-s u AliNu cultures u
Uphold bacilli. The body in DESTROY
ng ING cac'iiA 80 'n1eSu acq'A''es
ne sampe po~er 70 resist the a.eaek'
u i've typnoi0 oacu'l As ~ acqttned'
u regular ateach VI Uphoid iese''
4istie OF no Hicoh'enience IS e1ps'
fenced curing the process oi i"l'u'l-
1ation. lnefe u sesuo" more VAS
comfort lnan siisnt feuness a. ehs
JOINT Oh inJecSOn.
Among the many thousands OF
vaccinations on record, an unpleasant
is rarity. The system
has been adopted by both the army
and the navy among its troops, and
he records established on the Mex
can border place typhoid vaccine
ion In the list OF safe and sane lem
sdies and no longer in the expert
mental stage. {,s
? mo doubt many recall announcer 9xs
Inc o. on,n,on 90 % ,ha aa,o;anor =.
-, .,,sa,a u.a.,...,on 80. 80,