The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-10-08
THE DUTY OF A GOOD
NElGHBOR

NElGHBOR
Every family which has a member
| i'll with typhoid fever, scarlet fever.
or other contagious disease. Is en-
titled to the sympathy and intelli
gent help of the community. At the
same time, the stricken family should
realize fully that simple good citizen
ship calls upon its members to do
everything In their power to prevent
the spread Of the contagion to neigh
bors. 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 In
, the afflicted family. Ordinary neigh
borliness demands that such fam
lily keeps its members away from
others and prevent outsiders from
coming in contact with the infection.
On farm producing and selling
milk, contagious disease such as
typhoid or scarlet fever demands spe-
cial precautions A very few germs
of these diseases allowed to get into
the milk may multiply rapidly and
be source Of disease In many fam
lilies on the milk route served by the
farmer, according to the U. s. De
partment of Agriculture.
In the case of typhoid, the disease
may come from germs in the we'll wa
ter II used unboiled for cleansing
milk bottles or cans may very well
start a typhoid epidemic in neigh
boring town. Inspectors have fire.
uuently traced outbreaks OF scarlet
fever and typhoid along a milk route
and back to sick person on the pro-,
| ducer's farm.
1t is the duty of every milk farmer
| to see that no one who Is suffering
from fever of any kind ever enters
the dairy. Moreover, no one engag-
! ed in nursing the sick should ever
+ be allowed to 60 near milk. Those
who handle the milk on such farms,
even though they never have been
near the person who is sick, should
take special precautions. Before en-
tering the milk room they should put
on clean cap and clean duster
which are never allowed to go into
the house. In cases of typhoid or
suspected typhoid all water used In
cleansing milk vessels should first
be boiled. Finally, even with all
the precautions wherever typhoid or
scaret fever is even suspected in
family. the milk should be thorough.
ly pasteurized before being sold.
The milk producer who takes these
precautions establishes his good cit
izenship. The one who handles milk
carelessly with sickness in his family
Is, though he may not realize 1t, a
possible enemy to his customers.
Such precautions are doubly nee
essary where the owner of the farm
Is the sufferer, because the milk is
apt to be handled carelessly for lack
OF his supervision. Inspectors re-
Gently following up case OF pad
milk found the owner OF the farm
sick with bad case OF typhoid lev
er. He gave his illness as reason
for his not being prosecuted because
the low quality of the milk was due
directly to it's handling by ineXperi
enced persons. Investigation proved
that the farmers Illness was one OF
succession of cases of typhoid that
had occurred on this farm. The PROB
| ability therefore, was that the MIX
being sent out before the farmer was
| sick was dangerously contaminated
while. of course, the risk after illness
hal withdrawn his attention was
vastly increased.
In many cases where an OUTBREAK
| of typhoid has been traced PACK W
n dairy the owner was not dehper'
otely careless. Typhoid fever Is not
always readily recognized as such'
and not uncommonly passes Simply
as fever or bowel complaint. For
this reason every case OF fever on
a dairy farm should be regarded with
suspicion and lead to very careiu'
handling of the milk.
Members OF households In when
there are contagious or suspicious Ill
nesses also have an important par'
to play In keeping the milk supply
clean. They should never return
: empty milk bottles without first boil
ing them. and any family which takes
: n public milk bottle into room
where there Is contagious disease
is really party to serious onens'
against public health. A milk deal
: err who learns OF h case OF sickness
in family should keep the bottles
from that house separated from th'
others and make certain they arr
very carefully sterilized before the!
are again used for milk
Even where there Is no sickness
on farm, the dairy farmer should
: use every effort to produce higl
grade, clean milk from healthy cows
Q Sterilization OF bottles and othe
milk vessels is essential.