The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-10-31
NEW METHOD
WORKING WELL
Doctor Gays Method Of Typhoid
Vaccination Said 10 Be Prov
ing Successful.

A new method OF typhoid vaceinh.
tior, we are told, mas now been worked
out by DIR. Frederick Parker Gay, pro.
fcssor of pathology in the University
Of california. Vaccination against this
dread disease has already been proved
a success by world wide experiment and
use, SAYS the Daily journal of Com
merce OF San Francisco. Heretofore,
however, the use OF typhoid vaccine has
caused, in many persons, considerable
FEVER or nausea. Doctor Gays uew
method, however, is not only of in.
creased efficiency but does away with,
or greatly reduces, any disagreeable
symptoms in connection with such vac.
cination. Instead OF using attenuated
strains of living bacteria, as French
medical investigators had done, Doctor
Gay makes his vaccine from typhoid
bacteria which have been killed AMI
ground exceedingly minute His new
method differs IRON the method ordj-
narily used heretofore in the United
States and Great Britain in that h,
us,s sensitizcd culture--a culture
treated with immune serum. Hereto
ore the three innocula tiOns required
have been given at intervals of ten
days. Professor Gays method sho tens
he time requi. ed. The secsnd aud third
injections of the vaccine are now put
into the arm three and six days, les
,cctively, after the first innoculatiop.
Many Students vaccinated.
More than three hundred students
have feen vaccinated against typhoid
with Professor Gays new method since
the University of California reopened
in August. The university infrmary is
now giving the vaccine to more than
$50 students every week. All students
who ask for il are to be given such
protection against this dangerous dis
ease.
Fer some years the British, German
and Japanese armies have enforced
vaccination against typhoid for all their
men. The United States army adopted
it in 1911, and Immediately cut down
typhoid cases in the army to one TWEEN
| ty-frst of what they had previously
averaged per annum. The field agents
of the United States Department Of
Agriculture now all take this pretal-
| ton.
Danger In Small Towns.
The university rs authority for the
following statements:
at is particularly in small towns
and in the country that danger from
| typhoid is great, for the large city is
apt to have better water supply, pro-
tected against sewage pollution. 1t, Is
contaminated water, contaminated milk
and flies which are the cause of most
cases of typhoid. Even city dweller
who is protected against these three
sources of infection is still in danger
Of contracting the disease, since "ty-
ploid carriers are numerous and may
eontaminate food or drink. Such ty-
phoid carrier was discovered a year or
so ago by the State hygienic laboratory
of the university. He was which
driver on the ship Acme, who had hinI-
self fully recovered from the disease.
Merely because he dipped his fingers
into the water cask on deck, during II
period of FIVE years he gave typhoid
to thirty people, of whom five died. Be
sides these known cases, there IL no
telling how many Others contracted the
disease from him without the connee.
ton being traced. Director Wilbur a.
Sawyer of the State hygienic laboratory
estimates that two per cent of all the
people who have typhoid fever remain
"carriers' after they themselves have
recovered from the disease. He urges
\ that physicians should not discharge tv-
phoid patients as cured until bacteria
logical tests prove they are no longer
dangerous to others. ~ .-t -a7t