Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-06-12
DR.. FULTON WARNS
OF TYPHOID FEVER
Urges Everyone To Be Vac
cinated And Take No
Chances

Going on a vacation to the noun
tains, or to the seashore? To sum-
ms camp, or on hike, or on week.
end trip, before you buy your bathing
suit ,or get your travelling togs to-
gether, go to. your doctor or to the
nearest health officer and get him to
vaccinate you against typhoid fever.
This is the advice of DR.. John S. Full
ton, director of the State Department
of Health to every Marylander, big
and little young and old, who hasn't
been vaccinated against typhoid with
in the last two years.
The typhoid vaccine is furnished
free of charge to all physicians by the
State Department of Health. Three
visits of not more than five or ten
minutes each, week apart, to your
doctor or the nearest health officer,
and three shots of typhoid vaccine,
will complete the job, and you will be
protected for another season.
Since typhoid is no respector of per-
sons, or of ages, the advice in regard
to vaccination is given to everybody.
A report made by DR.. R. H. Riley,
Chief of the State Bureau of Com
municable diseases at the Health Of
ficers conference in Baltimore, showed
that over thousand people in the
counties of Maryland-1O57 exactly
had typhoid fever last year, that is
one person out of every seven hun
dred, had the disease. In 1924 it was
less prevalent. That year, 1928 people
had typhoid, or one out of every nine
hundred in the population. And these
cases ranged in age from babies three
months old to men and women of 80.
While no age was free from it, two
thirds of the cases of typhoid-or
nearly seven hundred cases occurred
among children and grown-ups from
five to twenty-five years old.
Zone of the things that make it so
difficult to prevent the spread of ty-
phoid fever" DR.. Fulton said in urg-
ing vaccination against the disease,
"is the fact that many persons, who
recover from the disease are perfectly
well themselves, but are what are
known as carriers of typhoid. Very
often these people handle milk or
other foods and spread the disease in
that way to the members of their
households or to other people. If the
discharges from the persons who have
typhoid or who are carriers Of it, are
not carefully disinfected and disposed
of, the typhoid germ may pass into
nearby streams, and persons who drink
from these streams, may easily con-
tract the disease.
"The State Department of Health
is cooperating with the State Roads
Commission and with all local authori-
ties in inspecting with the State
Roads Commission and with all local
authorities in inspecting and protect
ing drinking water supplies and sani-
tary conveniences at the tourist
camps and at all other summer camps
throughout the State. 1t is also max
ing special inspections of the sanitary
conditions of the workers camps at
canneries. But it is best for the in
dividual to take no chances. Before
you go off on your hike, or your auto
trip, or your summer vacation, 60 to
your doctor or to the nearest health
officer and get him to give you the
necessary three innoculations of ty-
phoid vaccine, SO that you may be
protected from typhoid fever wher-
ever It NAV he found"