The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1922-08-11
The Typhoid Season,
Enlist and Fight It

The State Bureau OF Vital Statistics
advises you to look for Typhoid Fever
during the next three months. Tor
during that period OF the year more
than 20 per cent OF all deaths from
that disease occur There were b2
cases Of Typhoid Fever reported dur
ing the entire month of May, but dur
ing the first half Of June there were
SO, and the disease is on the increase
at this time OF the year, as 1t Is
every year. In 1919 there were Az
Typhoid Fever deaths In a total OF
21,606; In 1920 in a total OF 35,575
there were $40 as compared with 1893
typhoid deaths in total Of 32,977 In
1921, an increase over the year before
OF 249 deaths, and unless some effort
is made this year will show greater
number of deaths than did 1921.
To prevent Typhoid Fever you must
understand how 1t Is caught. TWO
classes OF people scatter this disease
the one who is sick with II and the
other who carries the poison In the
bowel after recovery from the disease.
In order for a person to catch Typhoid
Fever he must swallow some OF the
excreta from such persons. To es
cape this disease person should eat
food and drink water which Is not
mixed with such discharges. The fly
carries this discharge from the sick
room or the privy to the kitchen or
dining room and places 1t on the food,
or the excreta may have washed from
the privy into the well. There are
other ways that the discharge from
the sick may get into the mouths OF
well persons.
Every person should be vaccinated
against this disease excepting certain
circumstances which your family phy-
stefan will explain to you. The entire
house should be screened against files.
A city or towns water supply should
be tested at regular periods to see
that it is pure. If you get water from
a well and have not sanitary prlvy
or your we'll is not properly curbed,
you should boil all water before drink.
ing A plan for curbing your well or
for building a sanitary privy will be
furnished upon request to the State
Board of Health, Atlanta, Ga.
II one of your family should take
Typhoid Fever, ask your physician
what you should do to protect the rest
of your family, and follow his direc'
lions to the letter II you wish litera-
ture on this disease your State Board
OF Health will furnish it.
Authorities say that of those who
have Typhoid Fever, one person out
of every ten dies If this is true,
then there were 1880 cases. of Ty'
phoid Fever in Georgia last year.
These people were sick more than
90, 940 days, and at only $1.OO per day
there was a loss of more than $23,940,
not including any medical attention or
drugs or the time lost by those who
waited on them Nor do these figures
take into account the sorrow in the
500 families which these deaths
caused Typhoid Fever is big ques'
ton; it should have your most care.
protect your family against this dis
full thought and you should not only
ease, but also your neighborhOod
Let us begin NOW to take the neces.
sary steps to escape this disease.
Many are ignorant and know no bet.
ter than to eat filthy food and drinP |
polluted water, and you, dear reader, |
cannot do a better thing for your &C.
quaintances than to tell them how to
escape Typhoid Fever.