Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-09-09
Help Make the Country
Healthy.
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the typhoid infection to foods or milk
placed in these vessels About one out
Of three cases of typhoid and probably
less are carried by water; the others
usually by fingers or flies.
DecGyimg vegetation, garbage, manure
and stdgndnt 1Vdier may breed flies and
mosquitoes, but they do not generate
typhoid, unless they contain typhoid in
fected human excreta."
Now this was news to the thinking
farmer, and he wondered why oth.r
doctors he had employed had not told
him this.
Cant say" said his physician, Some
doctors are too busy to stop to explain,
but personally it has always been my
belief that a doctor should be pub
lie educator, and the most of them be-
lieve as ! do. 1t is simply your luck to
consult the wrong kind of doctors. Then,
too, many doctors have been discouraged
in trying to educate people by the peo-
pie themselves Too many people don't
want to be told what ails them, and
having made diagnosis of their own
cases, will only call doctor who will
agree with them, which some doctors,
rather than lose the business, will do"
safety of my family against the disease"
asked the farmer.
Easy enough. I've given you the facts
in regard to the disease. You are a
reasoning man. Go home and look over
your premises and then rid them of all
the things have mentioned which may
promote the carrying of infection. 1t
may also interest you to know that the
same factors responsible for the carrying
OF typhoid infection are also capable of
carrying the infection which produces the
diarrhoea and enteritis in babies That
may give you an idea as to the origin
Of the summer complaint affecting your
baby at present Think it over"
Enough to think over and this farmer J
studied. He went home, sent to the State J
Board of Health at Topeka, and to the c
IT, S. Public Health Service at Wash /
ington, d. c., for some bulletins and he I
studied them He had always kept his t
barnyard clean and his wife was con- +
sidered the best housekeeper in the a
country. Still there was something g
wrong and he found it. a
First he had board cover on his we'll 7
He was surprised to find that water n
spilled on the platform leaked through, 4
carrying back into the we'll the filth /,
and manure from the yard and BARN q
yard carried to the platform on his Il
feet. He replaced it with broad con-
crete cover, 8x8 feet, high in the center !,
and sloping away to the edges so no "
water could seep back. He also provided h
concrete trough with drain pipe, so v
any drips or overflow would be carried
at least 100 feet away. Concrete was :.
cheap and the work cost him about y
$500 altogether. He also dissolved y
level teaspoonful of chloride of lime 9 9
Ordinary bleaching powder, obtainable IL
at any drug store) in water, making y
solution in bucket of water, :
and poured that in the we'll for tenn !.
porary sterilization.
Then he went after the milk house a.
He put in a concrete floor, with a gut 4
ter so he could flush it with water and n
wash thoroughly every day, with little :
effort. He also screened it, and after al
gasoline engine and pressure e,
tank he provided running water and Al
sink, both in milk house and in the +,
kitchen. He put in hot water tank h.
too, and connected it with both sinks,
so that all dishes and milk containers
rd,,1d he 90 civ cfoviEopd He alec found