The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-07-08
TYPHOID DEATH
RATE DECREASES
DR.. 7. A. MANN, CITY PHy IAN
TELLS HOW TO REDUCE x
DANGER.

IN regard to public health, ur &c
n community can gather reliable IS
i tics to show definite facts it is Ma
sary to use reliable figures from
1 er in order to show what can i
i # certain sanitary measures
/ ried out
Attention is called to tho
lfall il the typhoid death rat ack
/ songille, Fla. within the hrse
| years. IN 1910 there were deaths
IN 1911 there were 40 and 81 92
there were 10. This Improvement bas
lbeen due 10 the establishment Of tile
lsanitary closet in answered districts
The health officer Of Jacksonville has
made persistent fight, though much
opposition 70 do away with the old
Estyie open priYy. His efforts have
been worth many thousands OF dollars
Ito Jacksonville, but as in many other
PLACES the people are slow 10 reeog-
ME the value Of hts persistent effost
lr Terry In his 1912 report said
1T Is probably quite true that no mli-
nicipal report involving d record of
as much labor and responsibility
as that Of a health department re-
ceiyes less attention at the hands ef
those for whom il il intended and
whom II mostly nearly concerns, the
citizens, and / cannot but feel that in.
I'll the average man and woman come
TO realize that low death rate IS
greater economy than a low tax rate
"a community will reap its full measure
OF reward for efforts directed d,
health conservation In speaking OF
the lowered typhoid death rate Dr.
Terry said that. the evidence that
large proportion OF the typhoid fever
OF jacksonville was flyborne is nov
about complete
II may be Of interest to the people
OF Brunswick to learn that III North
ern cities and towns where the water
supply has been made safe that the
death rate from typhoid fever aver
ages about 20 per hundred thousand.
In the South the publication OF tho
public water supply win, in the ali
sence Of other measures seldom bring
the flgAres below SO per 100 01. When
howevN n, a Southern city adds to the
pure Gator supply, the further SAFE
guard OF dol away With the old open
privy by q ESTABLISHING the sanitary
closet In uncovered districts the rate
is made toleompare fayorably with
the rate in{northern cities.
TO reduces the typhoid death rate to
20 per 100000, however, should by no
means satisfy a community Typhoid
fever can be prevented almost entire
ly IN fact 1t Is possible to absolutely
prevent it, but only after both eominu.
nifty and individual measures of pre-
vention have been carried out. After
the people collectively or as com.
munity have done all they can BY safe
guarding the water and milk supplies
by frrnishing efficient sewerage dis.
posal, bfsrequiring the sanitary privy
in unsqA prod districts. then the md.
vidHals ID the community must learn
the matt OF the disease and later tho
precaut BIS necessary There must BID
no typl Il Maryas as cooks There
must beAo careless disposal OF dis
charges Vpm q case oil fever, Per
sons who bye had the disease within
five or siJears should never work.
around id unless they have been
examined toy certain whether or not
they are 'caM ers.
These factsThould DO borne fAminti
Typhoid fever D. caused loy the typhoid
bacillus or ge Typhoid germs are
discharged in urine Of patients.
These organise sometimes continue
TO be discharged or months and years
after recovery. 10 cause typhoid fl
YER these germ nlst find their way