Milford chronicle., 1925-06-19
Urges Citizens To Guard Against
Typhoid And Degenerative Diseases
Dr. A. Davis Advises All Motor Travellers Be mmunzed Against
FeverBeware OF Drinking Water And Food Brought Along Way
Span OF Life Increased All Over 40 Years Take Yearly Exam
nation And Treatment By Family Physician, He Says

The great necessity for Delaware
citizens taking precautions to pre-
vent contracting typhoid fever, par
ticularly if they own an automobile
and travel around much, and the ne
cessity for every citizen, who has
lived four decades being examined
at least once each year by his family
physician, in order that his life may
be prolonged, are two salient facts
which DR.. Arthur T. Davis, executive
secretary of the State Board of
Health asked The Star last evening
to emphasize upon its readers.
"This is the season of the year, "
said DR.. Davis, when every one who
owns a car either has begun travel
ing about the country or is planning
to make some pleasure or vacation
trips this summer. Last year there
were Is deaths in Delaware and $50
cases of typhoid fever. There should
be none and would not be any if the
citizens would take advantage of the
immunizing process whereby they
are innoculated against the fever.
"Under the present method all they
have to do is to call upon their
physician and ask to be immunized.
DR.. Davis explained that immuniz-
ing a person meant inserting nee
die properly sterilized and loaded
with the anti-serum for the fever
into a persons arm, that would pro-
tect the man or woman from the dis
ease. The protective gets at once in
to the system.
He also urged all motorists and
particularly those who intend camp
ing on their trips, to take this pre-
caution and also to see to it that
they themselves take care of all re-
fuse and leave nothing for others
who come along later to be menaced
with.
Water May Have Bacilli
The reason why motorists are
more likely to be susceptible to the
fever is because if they do not car
ry their own drinking water, they
are apt on a hot day to stop and
drink water from an available spot.
Perhaps the most inviting water is
the most dangerous. Milk is another
insidious carrier of the typhoid few
er bacilIi, and medical records Of
territory to Delaware
Pennsylvania for instance, contain
records of epidemics of typhoid fever
that have been directly traceable to
milk.
Ice cream, DR.. Davis pointed out,
has been known to be responsible
for fever and in one section was the
carrier of the disease. Infected wat
is another food that should
be scrutinized carefully in order to
assure the eater that it is fit for
consumption. But the chief danger is
in the drinking water.
Examine Public Wells
In order to better protect Della
wareans and all others who use the
highways Of the state,
the drinking water supplies about
service stations and other places
where autOists might stop or set up
a camp are being watched by the
State Board of Health and wherever
there is any trace of anything dang
erous, the water will be analysed to
learn if a menace turks in it.
with all the precautions now TAX
en- in the treatment of typhoid fever,
it is not the man who is sick in bed
with the disease, who is the source
Of danger to the community" said
DR.. Davis, so much as the conval-
escent and the chronic carrier who
with Others"
DR.. Davis, in speaking of the need
for yearly examinations if man or
woman wants to live longer, called |
attention to the average life of the
BOY and girl born 20 years ago. Then
he average life expectancy" was
10 years. That was in 1900. Today
through the advancement made in
protecting the lives of children
while they are young, this lifeline
las been extended to an average
If Sc years and could go longer If
he proper precautions are taken al
er the person reaches the age OF Al.