The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-11

the people of Oklahoma can, however,
of their own initiative do even more.
The inspectors of the board can order
an unsanitary store to be cleaned up.
This has a good effect, but its effect
is not as great as that which can be
lexerted by the customers of the place
in question. The inspector cannot be
on guard all the time; the customers
can. If the proprietor of such place
realizes that his customers are likely
to leave him, he not only will clean up
promptly, but he will keep his place
ia permanent sanitary condition.
One of the rules of the State Board
of Health in regard TO clean and san
| itary establishments reads as follows
Every establishment or place
where foods are stored, sold or of
fered for sale or distributed, shall at
no time be kept in an unclean, un-
healthy or unsanitary condition. and
for the purpose of this regulation, un-
clean, unhealthful and unsanitary con
ditions shall be decreed to exist If
! foods are not securely protected from
! flies, dust, dirt, and as far as possible,
Iby all reasonable means from all 9TH
er foreign or injurious combinations" !"
This is Il ar-reaching regulation,
and the State Board of Health endeav-
ors to enforce 1t in a drastic manner.
But this work of enforcement can be
greatly aided if the public will do its
part The customer soon can tell II
= given place is in a sanitary condi-
tion. If il is not. then he should pat
ronize some other place
Wardine OF Typhoid.
Typhoid fever still continues to be
one of the most serious of diseases,
yearly taking heavy toll in death
and sickness in many communities.
Yet the highest known rate in any civ
ilian community is small compared
with the rate formerly taken as a
matter of course in every military
campaign. Typhoid fever at present
is almost unknown among armies. al
war huge bodies of men have lived
and struggled for months in most un-
sanitary conditions. Yet it still con.
itinues to be a scourge in civil commu-
mites, where general conditions for
the spread of infection are not nearly
as dangerous as in the military dis
tricts.
There is one and only one reason
for this difference. The armies are
inoculated against typhoid, civil com
Imunities are not When people gen
orally begin to realize how simple and
painless an operation incubation is,
. the use of this precaution will be
much more common. II protects the
person inoculated for about three
years Three injections Of serum. Ia
ken at week intervals are necessary
There is no pain and only trivial after
results. often no effects are notice
able following the first and third in
( jections. The second injection pro-
duces a slight feeling of illness. some
times accompanied for a few hours by
mild headache and a slight increase
in temperature, all these effects soon
passing away.
or course each community should
take every possible precaution to en-
sure the purity OF its milk and water
supplies and thus afford fundamental
protection against typhoid. But this
takes time and many persons. espec-
tally those travelling good deal. are
apt TO be exposed TO infection. II
such persons would be inoculated they
would be protected against attack
from disease which is always seri-
Gus and often fatal.