The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-06
MORE VACCINE ORDERED

1 the vaccine was going to give cut pr. | Gaston and Chief Inspector Burson
 made hurried inquiries to secure more ! but met with no success. The waiting i people were then informed of the lack of sufficient serum to attend to their needs and were requested to return | this morning. All promised that they ! would. It was predicted that at least 10000 persons would be vaccinated by the l city authorities before the present ex- citement dies down. The city commits sion is prepared to spend money with 1 out stint to vaccinate all persons who | seek the treatment and everything is being done by the city fathers to cope with the situation regardless of the cost now that they are awakened to 1 the gravity of the problem that con- 1 fronts them.
 | "We are fighting for permanent re- ] sults" said Commissioner Hornady, land where the laws are inadequate we will pass ordinances that will eradf- 1 cate some of the evils now existing All sanitary laws will be enforced and
 steps vii be taken to see that they
 are enforced even after the typhoid epi- demic dies down.
 1 "We are overwhelmed by the rush 1 of typhoid cases at the present time, but l the one outstanding feature is that | the people are awakened to the dan gers comforting them and are heartily
 cooperating with the city authorities
 in cleaning up the city. Of course.
 there are violations but these will be | treated severely. which will obviate a
 recurrence of the offenses in the fu- i ture.
 There were 45 new cases of typhoid
 reported for Wednesday, which makes
 137 cases in all for the first five days of July, an ominous record. Since a week
 o uyhn I fire ro11 1od <>f
 the city commission to impending spread of typhoid, PIP new cases of the fever | have been reported. As there were then
 6S cases on the records that means that there are now about 2S0 cases in Bir-
 mingham.
 However, these figures should not be
 taken too seriously, as in past years there
 has been much typhoid that was not re- ported Persons were down with typhoid
 and got well and nothing was heard of ! itN at the health department. Now all
 cases and even suspects are diligently re- ported and that accounts in part for the heavy rush of cases during the past few days
 'The preventive steps that are being l taken to down typhoid will not bear fruit | for at least three weeks, and so the pub | lie must become accustomed to daily in- creases in the number of typhoid cases without becoming unduly alarmed. How
 ever, these preventive steps that are be- 1 ing taken are for permanent cure, and
 next year in my opinion there will be no
 more typhoid in the Birmingham dis | trct."
 LIMIT CHILDREN'S ACTIVITY | Chief Sanitary Inspector Burson stated yesterday that steps would be taken to
 prevent children infected with typhoid
 fever from going about freely on the
 streets There are many children who
 have typhoid fever but who are not i'll
 enough to remain in bed. These children
 carry millions of germs about with them and are direct source of infection. ac-
 cording to the authorities
 | The board of revenue adopted a resolu-
 tion yesterday pledging cooperation of
 all it's sanitary and medical resources to l aid the city of Birmingham in its fight l against typhoid. The board of revenue
 will also furnish the poor and the indi- 1 gent free vaccine
 | Chief State Bacterologist Armes went
 about the city getting acquainted yester- day. and in the afternoon plunged into l active research of thu records of the 1 health department in an effort to ferret | out clue as to the causes of the pres ent spread of typhoid
 | Chief Inspector Burson stated that the l city sanitary laws compelled all stables to be cleaned every Thursday. The po-
 lice will be instructed to visit all stablea