The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-08-30
Recommends Typhoid
Vaccination Before Trip
Impure Water Drank Enroute
Causes Much Unnecessary Suf-
fering Say Experts

st. Paul, Aug. Pa drink Cd
impure water may turn a happy va
cation into disaster. There is one
way to prevent such a calamity
Vaccination is routing the scourge
of typhoid in the same way that
vaccination is annihilating small
pox which was the enemy of man
kind through centuries.
The educational committee OF
the Minnesota State Medical Asso-
citation in bulletin today urges
people to be vaccinated against ty-
phoid before going on a long va
cation.
"Protection@is so certain and
SO easy" says the warning to va
cationists. "Three doses of ty-
|phoid vaccine stimulates resis-
tance, which gives assurance that
the vacation will not be spoiled
by a long illness. We know that
it will protect. Experience is the
teacher. The United States mo-
bilized 100000 men for the
World War and by sanitation and
vaccination against typhoid fever
kept the incidence of this disease
down to 1929. In the Spanish
American War when the average
strength of. the army was only
$4,000 and incubation against
typhoid fever was not practiced
over 10000 cases occurred.
'tMany people do not take this
precaution because they think in
lection can be contracted only by
drinking impure water. They say
we are going to the woods where
we will not come in contact with
other people or water subject to
the pollution of civilization; or,
we are to he in cities where the
water supply is pure. 1t is true
that typhoid is not nearly so COM
mon as it was ten years ago. San
itation and other preventive meas
ures have cut down the incidence
tremendously. In 1926 two hum
dred seventy-two cases occurred in
Minnesota and in 1928 eighty-six
cases. The vaccine is no longer
taken to protect against typhoid
contracted from grossly insanitary
conditions, but against infection
which finds its way through the
strongest defense sanitation can
put up.
zone typhoid carrier, cook, or
a waitress in a restaurant or a
dairy plant maintains typhoid and
spreads the cases far and wide. A
carrier is one who after recovery
from a diagnosed or undiagnosed
case of typhoid fever continues to
shed typhoid bacilli in secretions
from the body. This condition may
continue for a month or year
and sometimes for life. The sever
ity of the typhoid attack has moth
ing to do with establishing the
carrier state. The mild cases some
times are not recognized as typhoid
fever, and the carrier state devel-
eping as result of such an at
tack is not easily located. Tour
lists eating in many restaurants
and drinking milk in different
places can never tell when they
will be served with food which has
been handled by a carrier. Even
when at home people are exposed
to this method of contracting the
disease. One who is not specific
ally protected is never entirely
safe.
Typhoid vaccine protects
against the carrier and other ac-
cidental infection. Gross insani-
tary conditions no longer exist in
well governed communities. The
vaccine, therefore, should be taken
by everyone and particularly those
who are travelling The immuniza-
ton is produced by three doses OF
the vaccine given one week apart