The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-22
THE CURE OF TYPHOID CARRIERS

since the duys Whcn Iyphoiu Mary tnfcW her weight about tho front page the treatment of typhoid carriers has been notoriously unsat- isfaetory to all concerned-the carrier the physicians or health authorities and the gen- eral public Perhaps the best bet thus far Is surgical removal of tho carriers gall bladder.
 In series of twelve cases reported by DTS George H. Bigelow and Gaylord w. Anderson this operation has apparently cured the carrier condition. At least regular monthly examna- tons made for year after the operation have a fair one. A typhoid carrier could scarcely get by twelve such bacteIiologieal organizations If he were eliminating typhoid baeilli.
 maintain, Is justiAablo public health eXpen- allure, and why not since It ID far cheaper than surveillance Of the health departments through an indefinite term of years.
 In all twelve cases gailstones were found present. and in the few cases where the pa tents had had any symptoms from the gall stones the symptoms disappeared after the operation.
 typhoid fever from few months to thirty years prior to the operation. One woman denied that she had ever had typhoid fever, But the ty- phod bacill were being eliminated from her gaStro- intestinal tract nevertheless. Probably her attack of typhoid had been dubbed "gas- tric fever" or intestinal flu" or malaria" or
 We do not know. but we begin to believe that in every instance of the typhoid "carrier' condition the focus of infection from which the typhoid germs come Is in the gall bladder.
 Everybody knows that an individual who is a typhoid carrier (whether he or she knows 1t or not) may be the source of infection in one out break after another of mysterious typhoid in the course of years, especially If the carrier handles serves food to persons who have not been immuniZed against typhoid
 These carriers (especially the innocent or un- detected carriers) quite likely to travel to summer resorts to take places as cooks wait CTS, etc. for season, and woe betide the pa- tron who sojourns at such resort without hay ing bothered to be immunized by his physician.
 Gallstones in considerable share of cases caused tVnhOid fpyer-the stones l- ing upon indus or clump of typhoid baclili in the gallbladder or the bile ducts.
 farmer who had had typhoid fever 30 years ago and was typhoid carrier had been selling hone-made butter in a city for years. Numerous cases of typhoid had occurred in the city, but none could be traced to him. Only one case was definitely traced to him. When he was operated on, there were no more cases of ty- phoid in the community where he sold his but ter.
 Don't let the menace of the typhoid carrier worry you. Just have your physician immunize you, and no such misfortune can befall you.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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 Answer-A lot of wire. rubber. fiber. etc. fashion into telephone and. call doctor.
 Removal of Hair
 have heard that destroying the hair on the legs and body would allow the pores to close up and prevent them from breathing, thus causing m health. Is there any truth in this? Answer-There are no pores in the skin to breathe through, so there Is no truth in the notion. The only openings In the skin through which anything passes are the orifces of the sweat and sebaceous ducts. and these serve only for excretion of water and salt and se- bum lskn oiD. The worst that can happen .ss up wos be qysr skin from accumulations in the sweat or oil duets.