Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-10-08

phoid fever, IS of the survivors will
probably become carriers at some
period of their lives. The most diff
ficult feature of the carrier situa-
ton is the fact that there are times
when it is an impossibility to detect
them by any and all laboratory
tests, in other words, a carrier may
at certain times be free of any signs
of the disease and yet later on be-
gin to pass the germs through the
eXcretions.
The number of typhoid carriers
is gradually increasing throughout
the United States, and the constant
travel from country to city, and
from state to state makes the prob
lem o very serious one to attempt
to control. Efforts are made in
practically all cities to detect car
,riers who are connected with the
production and marketing Of milk
and vegetables; food handlers in
bakeries, meat markets, and res
control will often fail to detect the
intermittent type of carrier.
Statistics have shown that the
largest number of carriers are not
found among employees of public
food vendors, but among domestic
servants and members of private
households. This class OF private
individuals is in a position to spread
and keep alive an almost endless
chain Of cases.
Typhoid fever is strictly a human
disease. 1t does not grow in water.
1t does not grow on fruit trees, nor
in vegetables. Cows and beef ami
mails do not have typhoid,> When
ever any thing or substance carries
typhoid infection, it is because SOME
human has contaminated 1t.
The only safe and sure protection
against typhoid fever infection is
vaccination. If we would use this
protection as generally and thor
oughly as we do the vaccination for
smallpox, typhoid fever would soon
disappear. over four million vac
cin1tions were administered in the
Infttd States during the recent war
ANA reports are shtving very few
cases OF infection among these inn
munc3.
Typhoid fever is essentially a dis
ease of the bowels. Typhoid fever
is slow and .insidious disease.
1t cannot always be diagnosed in
one or two days. Very often faml-
lies will wait and hesitate before
calling in q physician, and during
these days of doubt very little at
tention is given to the disinfection
of the discharges which are allowed
to pass the disease to others. This
often accounts for the presence OF
recurrent cases in a family or
neighborhood. The grouping of
cases in certain neighborhoods,
houses are located closely, suggests
probable fly source. Contami-
mated wells in country locations
often account for the infection OF
whole families.
Water and milk sources produce
typhoid outbreaks of an explosive
character, that, is, an unusually
large number Of cases in an unusu-
ally short space of days. For in
stance, If n water system or dairy
which serves to supply a large
number of people is suspected to
be the source Of an epidemic, we
would naturally expect q large
number Of the users to be stricken
suddenly, whole families and neigh
borhoods. Water and milk source
epidemics are rarely long drawn
out affairs, because the infection is
soon traced and remedied or re-
moved.
Typhoid vaccination is a sensible
procedure, it is not dangerous nor
expensive. 1t will protect you
against the dozen different loop
holes in which typhoid infection can
creep into your household or into
your daily life. 1t will remove all
dread that you might. have regard