The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-10-14
THE DUTY OF A GOOD NEIGHBoR
Rigid Quarantine Moral Obligation in
the Case of Contagious Disease.

Every family which has a member il
with typhoid fever, scarlet fever. OF
other contagious disease, is entitled to
the sympathy and intelligent help OF the
community At the same time, the
stricken family should realize fully that
simple good citizenship calls upon its
members to do everything in their power
! TO prevent NE spread OF the contagion
| to neighbors. In the country especially,
where there are seldom health officers to
| impose rigid guarantees the duty OF
/ keeping the sick separated from the
well falls with peculiar weight on the af-
ficted family Ordinary neighborliness
] demands that such family keep its
members away from Others and prevent
outsiders from coming in contact with
the infection.
On farm producing and selling milk,
4 contagious disease such a. typhoid or
scarlet fever demands special precau-
tons A very few germs OF these dis.
eases allowed to get into the milk may
multiply rapidly and be source of dis
ease in many families on the milk route
served BY the farmer
In the case OF typhoid. the disease may
come from germs in the well water, and
this water ii used unboil, = Tor cleansing
milk bottles or cans may We, well start
typhoid epidemic in a neighboring
town Inspectors have frequently traced
outbreaks OF scarlet fever and typhoid
along a milk route and back to a sick
person on the producers farm.
II il the duty OF every farmer 10 see
that no one who il suffering from fever
Of any kind ever enters the dairy More
over, no one engaged in nursing the
sick should ever be allowed 10 90 near
milk. Those who handle the milk on
such farms, even though they never have
been near the person who il sick. should
take special precautiou. Before enter
ing the milk room they should put on
clean cap and a clean buster. which are
never allowed to 90 into the house In
cases OF typhoid or suspected typhoid all
water used Ia cleansing milk vessels
should first he boiled Finally. even
with an these these precautions. whore
ever typhoid or scarlet fever is even aus
pectcd in family. the milk should be
thoroughly pasteurzed before being sold
The milk producer who takes these
precautions establishes his good citizen.
ship The ono who handles milk care
lr-sly with sickness IN his family s
though be NAV not realize IL possible
enemy 20 hiz customers such prceau-
t4>1s are d0ubly necessary whore the
owner Of the farm j. the sufferer be
nusc the milk i apt 20 be- handled care
lcssly tor lack of he supervision IN
speetors recently following up case Of
bad milk found the Owner 81 the farm
.ick with q bga case = typhoid fever
llt gave his iIiurss ~ reason tor his
nut being prosecuted because tho low /.
quality 81 Tire MIX wa. due directly Ia
~ handling ~ inexperienced persons. (,
Invest cation proved that the farmers
lness vas one of succession 81 eases +
81 typhoid that had occurred on this
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hat tie milk being sent out before the
armer ASS .iHk uss dangerously con.
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