The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-05-22
BE PROJECTED AGAINST THIS
DANGER

Boy and girl scouts, campfire
girls and all other prospective camp
ers and mixers are advised by DR.. R.
H. Riley, Director of the State De-
partment of Health, to put 'immuni-
cation against typhoid" at the very
head of the list of things that must
be attended to promptly in prepara-
ton for this years camping trip. Ii
they have been protected against
typhoid recently, or within the last
two years, they will not need this
advice.
"There is much less typhoid" DR..
Riley said, than there used to be.
The public has been-and is--safe-
guarded against the disease in many
supplies from pollution, the pasteur,-
ways. The protection of public water
cation of milk, the steady improve
ment in. household sanitation and
general hygiene, all serve as means
of defense But because Of the Nd
ture of the disease and of the fact
that a certain number of those who
have typhoid, become carriers OF
the infection, 1t is still the source of
much preventable sickness and of
many unnecessary deaths. Vacci-
nation against the disease protects
the individual against invasions of
the disease from sources not covered
in other protective measures.
"You take typhoid by the way of
the mouth. You drink or eat the
germs that cause the disease, in
water, milk or food, contaminated
with typhoid germs that have been
who has had typhoid at some time.
passed in the discharges of somebody
Human carriers of the germs and
fies-winged carriers of the infec-
ton, are responsible for many of the
cases.
| Human carriers are persons who
are recovering from typhoid or who
have had the disease at some time
sometimes only in very mild form
but who continue to pass the
germs of the disease in their urine
or in the discharge from the bowels.
A carrier may be perfectly well, but
may go on passing the germs either
regularly or infrequently, and some
times at intervals of many years
You can readily see that carriers who
are careless in their personal habits
can be sources of great danger to
others, especially in handling or pre-
pairing food for others. If they
neglect to wash the hands thoroughly
after they visit the toilet and before
preparing food for the table they are
likely to leave the germs of the dis
ease on any food they handle. Some
of the most serious outbreaks of
typhoid that have occurred through
out this country have been due 60 the
contamination of food by human
carriers. Persons who are known
to be carriers are not permitted to
serve as food handlers in pubic
places.
Typhoid is no respecter of per-
sons and it is not limited to any age
group, but it strikes hardest at
young people-children, growing
boys and girls, young men and young
woman under forty. would like
to urge all-especially young people
who are going away on vacation
trips or outings, and who have not
been immunized recently against the
disease, to have themselves protected
against it before they go.
Three shots of the vaccine, given
a week apart, are necessary to COM
plete the treatment. The State De-
partment of Health supplies the vac
cine, free of charge. Your only ex-
pense will be your Doctors fee. AS
it takes some time for the treatment
to be effective throughout the system,
my advice is to go to your doctor or
your health officer and have it done
without any further delay"