Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-23
HEALTH OFFICER
URGES CAMP PAIGN
AGAINST FEVER

DR.. u. Causey, city health officer
issues the following health message
to the citizens of Douglas for con-
sideration during the summer;
The summer season, hot dry
weather, vacation period and the
house fly all suggest the possibility
of an epidemic of typhoid fever. We
are already hearing of some cases in
neighboring' communities. Therefore,
it behooves us as individuals and as
a community to take every possi-
BILE precaution against this dease
gaining foothold in the city.
THE health department is Keeping
as close watch as possible on the
water and milk supply and on all
other things and conditions that
might conduce to the propagation
and spread of typhoid fever or any
other infectious or contagious dis
eases. We have called on the people
through the cleanup week proclama-
ton, to hep us put and keep the
city in as clean and sanitary condi-
tion as is possible and we are still
urging the people to keep their prem
ises clean and sanitary. Food and
spected regularly and the vendors re-
quired to protect their wares from
house flies and dust The sanitary
officer is under strict orders to prac-
ttice no leniency in the enforcement
of the sanitary code of the city.
With the cooperation of those who
are handling and selling foods and
drinks and the citizenry in general
in our endeavor to maintain the best
of sanitary conditions we should go
through the summer without any
serious outbreak of typhoid or any
other infectious or contagious dis
ease.
The county has been asked,
through the district sanitary officer,
to cooperate with us by having the
adjacent suburbs cleaned up, eSpe-
cially as applies to corrals and sur
face toilets. Most of the house flies
that find their way into the city
breed in the corrals adjacent to- but
outside of the city limits and with
their access to the surface toilets
they are very liable to deposit dis
ease germs on any article of food
that they chance to light or feed
upon
"All the above suggestions are nee
essary in preventing an outbreak of
typhoid fever but it has been my
observation and that of other sani-
tarians as well that in spite of all
our efforts along the lines of sani-
tation that occasionally something will
evade our watc1Ia1ness and an epi-
demic will swoop down upon us like
a bolt from a clear sky and we may
never know from whence it cometh.
Therefore, am taking this op-
portunity to urge the people not only
to avail themselves of every posi-
Bile sanitary precahtion but also of
the almost certain Immunity that
vaccination against typhoid fever of
ers. 4@sN%
The prevention Of typhoid fever
by vaccination Isl now on a basis as
sound and sure as that of vaccina-
tion aginst smllpox. This, was
demonstrated conclusively by the ex-
perience of the nations engaged in
the World war, whose soldiers were
protected with scientific accuracy by
systematic vaccination with typhoid
paratyphoid vaccine.
The immunization consists of three
hypodermic injections at weekly in
tervals. 1t rarely inconveniences the
individual and the resulting i'm
munity lasts for two years or longer
The war department has record of
over million courses of typhoid
paratyphoid vaccine and the immuniz-
ing value has been demonstrated be-
yond question.
Protect yourself by going i'm.
mediately to your family physician
or the health officer and having
yourself and family fmmunized against
typhoid fever.