Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-09-25
PREVENT TYPHOID
BY USING VACCINE
Method lnSureS Immunity For
Three Years at Least.
NO UhTOWARD RESULTS.

M UN UWAkU kESULIS.
Health Commissioner of Baltimore
Urges All Medical Men to Immunize
Their Patients From Dangerous Dis
ease-Thousands Of Persons Treated
Have Suffered No Harm.
Health Commissioner Gorter of Bal
timore has just sent u q circular to
physicians in that city urging the use
Of anti-typhoid virus. which is Of in
terest to the public everywhere. Ac-
cording to DR.. Gorter, within a few
years about o50, 900 enlisted men in the
British. Japanese and United States
armies and navies have been injected
With this vaccine with no untoward
results and with the reduction of ty-
phoid ~morbidity more than 95 per
cent"
DE-. Gorter recommends that 'all
members Of q household in which there
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who have had typhoid fever within the
past five years. be urged to submit to
immunization in order to protect the
other members of the family not only
from the case within the household,
but also from the primary source Of
infection."
Text of the Circular.
The circular is as follows:
THE results obtained by the use of
this vaccine in reducing the usual
number OF cases Of typhoid fever in
armies and navies Of various countries
have been published broadcast and
with these all physicians are acuuaint-
ed. We wish to remind you, however,
that within a few years about 100000
enlisted men in the British, Japanese
and United States armies and navies
have been injected with this vaccine
with no untoward results and with the
reduction Of typhoid morbidity more
than 50 per cent.
This vaccine is now being used as Il
preventive in many large cities, and it
Is q common practice among physi-
clans to immuniZe members of fami-
lies in whose household a case Of ty-
phoid fever exists. Since early in 1912
the department Of health has been dis
tributing free a%nti-typhoid vaccine to
any citizen, provided the application
is made through the family physician,
because it must be administered by
him. Thus far about 1000 individu-
ais have been immunized in Baltimore,
who have suffered no harm therefrom
n now are immuniZed against the
fever for Il period of not less than
three years. The vaccine can be safe
ly administered to all healthy individu-
ais. Children particularly stand the
vaccine very well. We see no reason
why this vaccine should not be used
as extensively and as freely as the pre-
ventive vaccine for smallpox.
1T is recommended that all members
Of a household in which there is a case
Of typhoid fever (save those who have
had typoid fever within the past five
years. be urged to submit to immuniza-
ton in order to protect the other mem
bers Of the family not only from the
case within the household, but also
from the primary sources Of infection.
Injection Quite Harmless.
IF it should happen that one Of a
household is already in the incubation
period OF typhoid fever the injection
will do nc harm. and, according to the
small number Of such cases reported
in the literature, the opinion is held
that such inoculations tend to shorten
the duration Of the disease and to pre-
vent the more distressing symptoms.
persons who are especially exposed
to typhoid fever in institutions or who
intend to travel or change their resi-
dence during the summer should also
be urged by you to submit to anti
typhoid vaccination. Travellers and
summer residents Of country districts
| are exposed to a number Of different
| supplies Of water and milk. the source
of which they know nothing. which
multiplies the chances of infection, and
frequently they return home with va
cation typhoid.
1.-THE value Of anti-typhoid vaccine as
a prophylactic in avoiding and control
ling epidenlics you are already ac-
quainted with, and ] merely call your
attention to it's successful use in Maid
stone. England; Dublin. Ireland; Ce-
dar Rapids, Ia, and Memphis, Tenn. In
the latter city 10000 inhabitants, in
GLIDING SIT children between the ages
Of one and five years, were immunized
during the foods of 1912. after typhoid
fever had made its appearance. there
by preventing what threatened to be
a widespread epidemic of fever"