Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1913-04-30
WHAT TO ID FOR THE
HEALTH Oh kENovA
BY DIR. T. n. GoFF, PRESIDENT
kENovA BOARD OF HEALTH.

/ ONO river, winch no DOUBT contain.
mated the water supply of our city
with overflow of vaults aud sewer
contents, stems should be taken TO
make the city as sanitary as posi-,
BILE by using oil freely and on top
of this chloride of lime in the
houses, yards, alleys and streets;
cleaning up and keeping clean as the
water disappears. After all of this
we still are not through. We have
to be content with our beautiful
stagnant lakes and ponds-breedine
places for the Cousins" the mos.
quitoes.
One case of typhoid fever in the
hot summer months will attract
the house or Typhoid fiy," that Is
much stronger on wing than our
above mentioned cousins"
We are yearly losing hundreds
and thousands of babies under two
years of sge by (tbis entirely pre-
ventable) intestinal filth infection.
We formerly attributed this to con-
taminated water, milk and other
fouls. But recently evidence has
proven that large part of this filth
contamination is distributed by the
house fly. While milk makes one
of the best mediums for germs, ty.
ahoid, etc., it is necessary for the
milk distributors to clean up and
keep clean.
If some large and easily seen en-
envy, some savage human foe, per-
sisted in harrassing our homes and
cities, shooting poisoned arrows in
to our midst and causing one thou
sandth part of the diseases, suffer
ing and death, we would rise up To
a man and exterminate the enemy.
We can do no less now, that we
know our common enemy to be a
pesti(erous insect.
The problem Is still before us. 1t
Is necessary TO put all waste food
most attractive TO flies In some place
where the flies cannot have free ac
cess, and better still, Sc cen the
garbage can with fly trap attached
and trap them az fast as they come
A pair of flies beginning operations
in April may be progenitors, if all
were to live, of l91, OlO, 900, OOC,-
600, 600, 600 by August. Is 1t not
simple, common sense proposition
to catch this pair in April? To
catch this pair every household alb
solutely must cooperate.
Now, there is practically only
one way of salvation from thi. dan
gerous situation, and that is pre-
ventive treatment of our numerous
coming diseases. AS to typhoid
fever, statistics show that the army
and many of the lager cities have
gotten great results from vaccination
against typhoid fever injection. In
the fever cases in which the prophy.
lalic did no. prove to be thoroughly
lmmunizing, it was found that the
virulence Of the case was mini
mized. the duration Of the immun.
ity of anti typhoid vaccination is
not yet determined, but is assured.
ly two and one>half years, and
probably longer. 10 healthy per-
sons it is a harmless procedure. All
persons whose duty involves con-
tact with typhoid fever should be
immune1.
vi keeping CITY clean ana
healthfuI, the following "donCs"
should be widely circulated and en-
forced:
J.. Don't throw anything on the
sidewalk or street. Find a garbage
can.
2. Don't tear up paper and scat
ter it anywhere.
3. Don't let any piles Of ashes
or rubbish stay III your back yard.
f. Don't mix ashes and garbage
in the same can. Pigs don't like TO
eat old coal and clInkers.
>. Don't Gil the ash bin or gar