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filth polluted water will also transfer
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.
Decaying vegetation, garbage, manure
and sfagnant zUater 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 9th -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 l 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 a diagnosis of their own
cases, will only call doctor who will
agree with them, which some doctors,
rather than lose the business, will do"
But what can l do to insure the
safety of my family against the disease"
asked the. farmer.
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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
studied. He went home, sent to the State
Board of Health at Topeka, and to the
u S. Public Health Service at Wash
ington, D. c., for some bulletins and he
studied them. He had always kept his
barnyard clean and his wife was con-
sidered the best housekeeper in the
country. Still there was something
wrong and he found it.
First he had board cover on his we'll
He was surprised to find that water
spilled on the platform leaked through,
carrying back into the well the filth
and manure from the yard and barn
yard carried to the platform on his
feet. He replaced it with a broad con-
crete cover, SxS feet, high in the center
and sloping away to the edges so no
water could seep back. He also provided
concrete trough with drain pipe, so
any drips or overflow would be carried
at least 100 feet away Concrete was
cheap and the work cost him about
$500 altogether. He also dissolved
level teaspoonful of chloride of lime
(ordinary bleaching powder, obtainable
at any drug STOREY in water, making a
thorough solution in a bucket of water
and poured that in the we'll for tenn
porary sterilization.
Then he went after the milk house
He put in a concrete floor, with a gut
ter so he could flush it with water and
wash thoroughly every day, with little
effort. He also screened it, and after
installing gasoline engine and pressure
tank he provided running water and
sink, both in milk house and in the
kitchen He nut In hot 1,rater tank