The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-11-17

Stevens and Moves In Denver. Miss n
land, Oregon
walk among exploding dynamite ar
ter being warned OF dts location.
me source of typhoid fever is the
person suffering from the disease.
Tie method OF transmission u by the.
transference of the typhoid germs
from the patient to the prospective
Victim. These germs pass from the
body principally IN the evacuation Of
the dntestines Sometimes, though
not often, the disease Is transmitted
by personal contact. They are car
rfed on the feet of flies and they are
lieft wherever the fly a1ighta. Those
that make the trouble are the germs
that are left by flies in the food which
We eat-we eat It lf we. don know
any better and once again in the In
testinal tract OF another human be-
Ing, the chances are good Tor another
i funeral.
The most efficient weapon against
| tylJhoid ID prevention e IL a thou
sand times more efficient than cure.
fors prevention is about that many
binres less proIblematic bhan cure. The
steps In the line of prevention are
numerous. First prevent the flies
from reaching the faecal matter from
the stools of the patient; next pre-
vent flies from reaching food next
as an additional precaution. wash
thoroughly all food that Is not to be
cooked. and all the time and every
where kill the fly. Destroy his breed.
ing places in the stable. In the man
ure pile and In other filth
The screen for Florida is q neces.
sarT means to salvation Screen the
earth closets, screen tlae pantry
screen the kitchen, screen the bed
room, screen the porch and screen
uhem with the full conviction that
such screening Is not a luUury but 4
life saver.
We know that milk is frequently
q vehicle OF injection We know that
water has much to do with the dis
semination of typhoid, from the fact
that cities IN Europe where the water
supply is perfect, seldom number
their typhoid cases above 10 for each
100'1,000 OF population, and in Ann
erican cities the rate Is not usually
above 20 TO each 100 900, while in
cities where the water liz impure, this
rate goes from ten to twenty times as
high.
i There is another menace in the
fact that about 2 1-2 per cent OF
those who contract typhoid fever
live to become germ carriers, tllat is,
after they recover from the disease
itself they continue to carry ana
scatter its germs for an indefinite
period to infect Others.
From these facts 1T is evident that
this danger turks constantly and un-
suspected on all sides to menace pub
lie health, and from its insidious ma
ture, no person can be absolutely safe
from its attack excepting by 1inre
lenting watchfu1ness and care.
There is much evidence to prove
that some individuals are more sug-
ceptible to the disease than are
Others, and that for them extraordi-
mary precautions are imperative for
escape.
But while all sorts of prevention
in the line of sanitation help to check
the disease. the real victory over il
~as in the discovery of the principle
of fnoculation. Without undertake
ing to discuss the baterioIogy of this
principle. it is enough to say that the
method consists in hypodermicany In
jectfng into the blood of the indiyid-
ual millions upon millions of nhe
dead germs of typhoid. which for
period estimated to be about two
wears give practical immunity from
the disease itself
The success OF this vaccination
against typhoid has been remarkable.
Its record in the history of hundreds
Of thousands of cases has been that
only one-third as many yaccinated
persons have contracted the disease
as unvaccfnated More than this, the
disease has terminated fatally only