The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-04-16
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There are several cases of typhoid
fever in Garrard county, one in town,
two in the McCreary section and one
near Hyattsville, too widely separated
to admit of a general source of origin,
but nevertheless a strong reminder of
the necessity of taking the proper pre-
cautions TO guard against the dread
disease, which strikes without warning
and in the most unexpected places.
The danger of it may be minimized by
following the rules prescribed by the
best authorities on the preservation of
health, and which have been time and
again brought to your attention through
these columns. Just at this time, when
the ptstiferous fly, the purveyor of
germs, the source of many a case Of
typhoid, is just beginning to make his
appearance. is the very best time to
establish your safeguard against this
disease.
The first, and in our opinion the most
essential safeguard, is your drinking
water; look well to it, and if there is
the least doubt in your mind as to its
purity, send sample of it to LeXing-
ton and have 1t analysed, it will cost
you nothing and the trouble is slight,
and you may have your mind set at
rest upon that score. If YOU are going
TO use your old refrigerator, see that
it is in a thoroughly sanitary condition,
wash 1t with a strong solution of soda
and allow it to stand in the sun for
several hours, see that it is thoroughly
clean and sweet before you begin to
use it, then see that it is kept clean,
see that the decaying gases from food
stuffs do not for gelatinous deposit
in the pipes, thus placing every article
of food placed therein in danger of con-
tamination. Be sure of the purity of
the milk you use. if you buy it, be sure
that the cows from which it comes are
healthy and that it is handled in sani-
tary vessels before coming to you, see
that it is not allowed to stand open to
catch the germ bearing flies. Do not
cOntine your painstaking care to the
milk and water supply, let it extend to
every article Of food you use, see that
everything is pure and fresh and come
from a pure source.
Do not relax your efforts to keep the
premises surrounding YOU in thorough
ly sanitary condition, see that there
are no pools of stagnant water stand
ing about to attract flies and mosoui-
toes, have all Outhouses thoroughly
cleaned and disinfected, use lime free
~, scatter about the premises and
whitewash, also a solution of carbolic
acid should frequently be used about
stables and vaults, places where hogs
have been kept during the winter
should be thoroughly cleaned and disin-
fected, refuse should be scraped into a
pile and carted away or burned. no
vegetable matter should be allowed to
lie around 20 putrefy and breed flies
and germs. Last but not least, have
your house carefully screened and
guard against the entrance of single
fly.
Even after the greatest possible pre-
cautions are taken, disease will some
time make its appearance, but rigid
observance of the rules herein given
will reduce the danger to the minimum,
and in nine cases out Of ten will pre-
vent the appearance Of disease in any
form, and besides. these are but rules
that should be followed by every well
regulated household. and were they
uniformly adopted by the entire COM
munIty, such a thing as an epidemic
would be- an impossibility.