The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1914-11-04
Uphold
Record.
Only 4,012 Cases Reported
and 7,460 Estimated for
Year 1854.

year ending September 30, 1914
shows that Virginia has had
less typhoid during the past
twelve months than during any
year in the records of the Board
and only 50 per cent as many
cases as during the year 190S-09,
the first for which statistics
are available.
The aggregate number of
cases of typhoid fever for the
first nine months of the calen-
dar year 1914 was likewise less
than that for the corresponding
months of any previous year.
Only i,0l2 cases We're reported
from October /, 1918 to Sep.
TENDER 30, 1914, and the total
number estimated for the same
Iperiod was 7,l60.
In 1908 90, the first year fol-
lowing the reorganization of
the States health forces, ZAP
cases were reported. ii, 39S were
estimated for the State. In
l909-l0 these figures decreased
to G,77l and l,S43 respectively.
In 1901, reported cases were
1850 and estimated cases | / SOB.
For 1911 10, 4,G0S cases were 70.
ported and S,47o estimated.
This was at the time a low level
and was attributed in large de.
gree to the unusually favorable
weather conditions. In 1928,
when the spring was early and
the summer hot, the number of
cases Increased above the rec
ord for l9ll-l2 and reached
1888 reported and 1851 csti-
mated cases. For l9l3-I4, there
was thus decrease below
l9l2-l3 of l,S27 reported and
Sill estimated cases and a de
crease of 800 reported aud ,Ol0
estimated cases below, the pre-
vious state record.
1t is pointed out that this re.
duction in the number of cases
of typhoid fever means not only
Il great reduction in sickness
but a positive saving of human
life. Had conditions in Virgin
Ia since l90S-09 remained as
they were i'll that report year,
the Boards figures show that
I2,lSO persons who have alto
gether escaped typhoid fever
would during the same period
have died of it.
"lt liz needless to remark -
said on officer of the Board to
day, in announcing the figures
for l9l3-li, chat this notable
result was only possible through
the activity and interest of the
people of the State in matters
of public health. We had only
80 per cent as much typhoid as
IN l9OS-09 because the people
have learned how they may
prevent the disease aud are APP
plying that knowledge. We
could have no typhoid if the
people of the State were to de-
eide they would eradicate this
plague and would bend their
energies to the task while spend
ing sufficient money in proven
ton. The cases estimated for
the State during l9l3-l4, 1850.
are just 7,4G0 too many.
aside from this widespread
interest and cooperation in i'm
proving sanitary conditions,
the late spring of 1914 undoubt.
eddy helped reduce the morbid.
ity from typhoid. In the same
way, the use of typhoid vaccine
in families where the disease
appeared and among those who
had been exposed to it has play.
ed a considerable part in limit
ing the rayages of the disease.
| 1.-The fact that only two out.
breaks of consequence were re.
ported during the past year is
| typical of the changed condi.
tions and of the general pre-.
cautions now being taken
| When we are careful enough tc
protect ourselves from filth, we
can rid Virginia of typhoid"