The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-06-06
ANTI-TYPHOID CAMPAIGN
SOON TO BE PUT ON

The enemies of man are many and
from birth until death, human flesh
is never entirely free Of some harass-
ing influence. However, there are
few dreaded plaques that can be
forstalled and prevented. By the
grace of God we have the knowledge
and by virtue of certain philanthropic
organizations and the New5erry
county delegation we have the means
to prevent probably the worst of all
diseases that afflict US. |: is typhoid
fever.
Since the time when We have had
accurate medical records we tind that
typhoid fever has ravaged armies and
devastated communities in epidemlcs
and in individual cases. The mob:'-
ization of the great army to defeat
the Germna monster brought with 1t
the problem of preventing this most
dreaded of scourges. The records of
death from typhoid fever among our
bows over yonder show that practical
" no cases of this disease occurred.
Since this is true of large moblllza-
ton of peoples, whether military or
otherwise, then it would do well to
examine and see how this apparent
miracle was wrought. There are two
simple measures that are responsible; /;
sanitation and incubation. In the
average town of our country the san
itary arrangements are insufficient or
at least do not come up to the STAN
dards that were in use in the army.
The conditions in the rural districts
are not as good as in the towns. Up
until the. recent years nothing has
been done towards using the preven-
tative innoculation. So it can read
ily be grasped that this disease IS
verv prevalent and has continued
wear after year to kill and MAIN the
finest in the land. There is no one
who has not had a friend or rela-
tive who has fallen victim to ty-
phoid fever. In those communities
where sanitation and inoculation
have been practiced long enough to
have covered the most of the people
then the results are startling. Or
angeburg county has been one of the
ones that had the incidence of ty-
phoid fever reduced about 60 per
cent. This decrease is not an acci-
dental thing but has been maintained
for three years while surrounding
counties have shown an increase. This
fact was brought out in an article
written by DR.. L. A. Riser and print
ed in the American Medical Associa-
ton Journal some time ago. SO we
are bringing to Newberry, not the
first time, but again, the opportunity
Of getting the inoculation free and
to have it given by expert in public
health and disease prevention. The
facts concerning sanitation will be
brought to the door of the household
err and all that has been done to make
other communities free of typhoid
will be done for Newberry.
However, there is another essential
and that is the cooperation Of the
people concerned. That is to say, in
order for you to be free of the pos
sibility of contagion you must agree
to take this anti-typhoid treatment
and to sanitate your premises. This
is optional of course and is left to
the intelligence Of the individual.
What will Newberry county do about
it? We shall see.
In order that this treatment may
be made easy to get and to thereby
reach the greater number of people,
we have prepared an tlnerary W
cover the whole county. 1t is impos-
.sible to cover the whole county in
one swing so tentative schedule has
been made out and later other towns
and communities are to be approach
ed. This schedule will be announced
later.
1t is our purpose to start this CAM
paign on Saturday, June the 10th,
and carry it along as long as it seems
to Justify the time spent on it. Last
year this same thing was done and
about two thousand people took this
treatment, however, that is a very
small proportion of the people living
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