The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
Health Expert Offers Prescription to Stamp
 Out Typhoid Fever Germ
(COntinued From Page Ffye)

dangerous and just as preventable. Every person suffering with this disease has come into more or less recent conta ct with the germ. And we have to swal- low the germ in order for it to get into the body
 we can't, to save our lives, stop every enamel through which this disease is spread, but we can start at the foun- tainhead and stop it there We can keen every patients discharge from being scattered and in that way stop the spread of the disease
 Dr. Harrington then quoted from Duer- teronomy to show that the matter of the prevention of the spread of discharges from the body was not of modern origin.
 We are only applying in a modern way that which we were told to do thousands of years ago." he said.
 Dispose of this potentially dangerous matter. That's the problem Birmingham has to face now. If we don't care for ourselves no one will care for us. Bir- mingham last year was ranked as the second city in the United States in the high number of it's typhoid. Whether or not this record is to stand is in the hands of the people. All the sanitary experts in the world cannot remove the stigma. It is up to the people of Birmingham to do it. If you will eliminate the spread of typhoid, you will be proud of your city, you will benefit by it; you will lower your death rate from all causes
 T am sure that within 60 days you will be able to raise your eyes to the world and be proud of your city as a greater Birmingham
 WIPING OUT TYPHOID
 Dr. J. J. Durrett, all time health of flcer of Tuscaloosa county and city, was hn rAxyf some instances of how Tuscaloosa went about wping out typhoid within her con- fines, and explained the methods used. He said that the reason the fight was started in Tuscaloosa was to prevent the recurrence of unfavorabl publicity which was given the city last year on account of an alleged epidemic of typhoid. ''We never had any more of an epidemic last yea rthan we usually have had in years previous" he said. "but we determined to wipe out all possibilities of a recur- renee of that publicity It hurt Tusca- loosa and we felt that it should not come again.
 "On May 15 last Tuscaloosa built its first sanitary privy, and in 30 days from that time we had over 900 installed mak- ing what, I am told. is record better than any ever made by a city in the United States We now have only 90 dry closets in Tuscaloosa, and next Mon- day we will eliminate these
 'In 1914 we had about 65 cases of typhoid fever. with 17 deaths resulting. We have nad but one case thus far in 1916 that could be traced to the city itself We had one case which was traced to Liv- ington, and one which was traced to Bir- mingham, making a total of only three cases in the city. We have now definitely under way plans for placing sanitary closets for three miles about Tuscaloosa, and very soon we hope to be able to announce that there is not a dry closet within three miles of the city.
 If Birmingham will proceed as she has started, there is no reason why she can't get the same results"
 Dr. c. A. Grote. health officer of Walk CT county the healthiest county in the entire United States. next was introduced by Chairman Bush. He explained the workings of the public health system of Walker county, saying every city in the county had health official, known as assistant county health officer, this of- ficial being directly under the county of- flee Every city, every town, in fact, the entire county is patroled by the health forces, and no city or town hats the right to deny them entrance. Indeed, he said, the towns and cities were glad to