Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-23
"cooTIEs" CARRY TYPHUs
 SAYS HEALTH DEPARTMENT


 Health officers are requested to report all cases, or. suspected. cases. of typhus fever by telegraph to the state depart ment of health at the capitol at Hartford. >The symptoms of European. typhus fever are rather striking There, is sudden onset, severe headache usually frontal and marked Prostration. The patient is plainly ill from the onset, vol. untarily goes to bed and the fever reacft es it's height C1eS-Io5 degrecs farenheit) in two or three days. The incubation pe- riod- is ten to fourteen days after being infected. s,= The eruption is blotchy, irregular. and macular.s appearing three .dr four days after the onset. IL comes out in one crop. first on the abdomen, but spreading all oyer the body .inr twenty-four to forty eight hours, the palms of the hands and soles of the feet being usually free. = As the disease progresses, the eruption may become petechial. At first, few of the nacules may disappear on pres- sure, but as the disease progresses the majority do not disappear. % .F.
 The patient has distinct chills at the 1 onset, flushed face. congestion of the eyes and constipation is marked. He is usual. | ly in dull, drowsy, stuporous. condition | and the severe types of the disease are accompanied by vomiting and menta ! symptoms, delirium being more or lesz common. The course of the disease ter. inmates by. a. crisis in about two weeks The fatality rate of this disease vii run from 30 to 40 per, cent. if cases art not treated, but in eases properly treat ed the rate IS usually about 10. per cent. .t.4 ... -'t
 |. The louse transmitting typhus fever i! l identical with that of ''cootie' fame 1T the U. S. army for this. season, all cit ies and towns have expert louse hunter. who know this insect. Every ex-seryic' man knows that young lice are whitish while the older lice are grayish and arr known as "grayhaeks." q
 Fortunately the louse is A siow-crawl ing insect and enjoys the intimate com panionship with his particular host O person on whom he is' living and feed ing. and because he feeds daily he rarel. lodged. On account of his dislike for tn cold. and the necessity of ding. it i only when persons are huddled together as in prisons. jails, or perhaps the cheap CT lodging houses that the louse has op portunity to travel from one person | another. In cases where persons ,di from typhus, fever. the louse will natuI ally leave for food elsewhere.
 The eggs of the louse hatch in six { twelve days usually and he lives for sev Il en to eight weeks. A iouse1 will live les than two weeks without food.
 The measures necessary to prevent tli spread of tyohus fever depend on the d, struction of lice. their eggs, and in ger eral the destruction of their breedin places, by disInfecting buildings, beddinl and clothes, and .delousing persons wh tarbor these insects.
 , J.ice and their c1Ss ara kiiled at tau
 perature of 15o degrees Fareaheit by dr : heat bakin(g) or if steam sterilizers al used it is customary to treat infeste , clothes. bedding and. other articles allowing them to remain for period
 twenty minutes. at 22o degrees Farenhe , Liquid dis:nfetcants, as benzine and ke , osnc. are excellent for killing lice ar I eggs, doing this in about five minutes. D
 Rosenau suggests the use of, trichlor
 thylene- e per cent0 ,or 'tetrachlort
 thane (1O per cent.) iin place of ker
 sine as they are mot innammable. Fiji
 minutes boiling will also kill lice or the \ eggs. Sulphur dioxide gas, using at lea :. lbs. of sulphur for every 1000 cubic fe in a room, will kill lice, the gas beir ,,1 allowed to remain at least twelve hour
 If a room is not tight, heavier conce .- tration of gas must be used.
 Thus, to disinfect a house, the use Y sulphur dioxide gas will; kill the live i " sects. and kerosine or benzfne spray, |, on the beds, floors, cracks, etc, will k . the eggs. .,
 n There remains then the disinfecting 5 the bedding and clothes by baking
 s,eam sterilization, after which process
 health officers may be sure that there a h nc lice or eggs left alive. l- --' e In disinfecting individuals, the ciothil