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rSTATE BOARD OF HEALTHTAFTER-EFFECTS OF TYPHOIDDeath Rate of Those Who Recover From Typhoid Doubles.Figures are showing up typhoid in a new light. We have always regarded seriously the chances of fatality that go with each case, also the length of time required for the fever’s course, the severe suffering, the anxiety, the careful nursing, not to mention the expense, but now figures are showing that the after-effects of typhoid are not to be slightly considered.A study of 1.574 cases of typhoid fever shows that 146 died while under treatment, which is not quite one out of every ten. O f the 1,428 who recovered from the immediate effects of the disease, the death rate for the first three years was nearly twice the normal death rate of a similar group of persons who had not had typhoid.As the cause of death among the patients who died following recovery from typhoid, tuberculosis heads the list with a rate of 39 perecent., with diseases of the heart following with a rate of 14.8 per cent. In other words, the chances for having tuberculosis are increased about three times in those who have recovered from typhoid while the chances for heart diseases are about doubled.' In the United 8tates each year, 8,000 deaths occur among persons who have recovered from an attack of typhoid fever but who, as a result of impaired vitality from thedisease, succumb during the first or second year after recovery.Besides lowering the vitality so that other diseases are not to be resisted, typhoid often leaves the patient maimed for life, and memory is frequently impaired. These considerations should bear an especial appeal to those who still tolerate flies and fly infected food and who have not yet made up their minds to be vaccinated against typhoid.Why take such chances? You can surely prevent typhoid by having your physician give you the anti typhoid treatment. The material for this is furnished free by the State Board of Health. Apply to any physician, your local health officer or the State Board of Health at Boise.Typhoid Carriers. The Perversity of Typhoid Mary.Typhoid fever has fourth place on American mortality lists, coming after enly tuberculosis, pneumonia and can «er. It takes among us the place of the 4 Asiatic Guest”, which the Euro pean peoples have from time immemorial so constantly and so unnecessarily entertained. Both these diseases are 4 * ingestion infections” con-traced in absolutely no other wav than by swallowing food and drink* (the latter mostly water or milk) contaminated in various disgusting wavs, with either the cholera vibrio or the typhoidfil and th* filthyfly ace the chief intermediaries. Scien-tifically speaking, nothing can be simpler limn the prevention of these in -feeiii*:.* I’lio app'V uo*. of 11.*» prin-iples is, iV.wver of rg at practical difficulty For example here is t!*i* cook. Typhoid Marv, a carrier of the germ, who, although she declared she never herself had the disease, has, nevertheless,* in those migra-s tions from family to family peculiar to her easte, through a number of years dessemiuatrd the infection to Home score or more of sufferers. There have indeed been typhoid carriers who have had the disease forty years previously and have continued through all that time being a meanace. It is computed that one-fourth of the people who have had typhoid are carriers; that, disease or no disease, one in every one thousand of us is such a carrier! Most infections are self-limited; their quarantining time is fixed. But you cannot quarantine a typhoid carrier a whole life time, any more than you can frame a indictment against a whole nation. The great trouble with Typhoid Mary has been her perversity, exceeding even that which obtains in her most tempermental of callings. She has never conceded herself a menace; she has not obeyed the sanitary directions given her; she would ■ot wash and disinfect her hands as required; she will not ehange her occupation for one in which she will not endanger the lives of others; under an assumed name she had competed with the Wandering Jew in scattering destruction in her path. Typhoid carriers who are amenable to reaaon. conscientious, careful and scrupulously clean, need not endanger anybody's existence.The best insurance against typhoid is, after all, to get inoculated against the disease, as all sensible people are aow vaccinated against small - pox. especially is this well to do when there are typhoid epidemics; and for commercial travelers, motorists, tourists and vacationists who may in the most subterranean ways contract typhoid and became typhoid carriers. And since this is a disease largely of adolescence youth and early man-hood and womanhood, our young peo-cillJK!11* u *ools and alsocolleges should certainly submit to . preventive measure before leaving home. It is considered that theSTJi18 *°r at least twoHfe WhenD* for* ikJ#4 ® inoculations are madeLrc liLll frD?°n m“tOWlird •en^tionMare likely to have disappeared by theA #€rie8 of three buc-eeesive inoculations are made a weeirapart. Scientific American. ^If some people were as much afraid wonn V8 \ 7 “re °f bad wea*her thereUke the nn? If thev wouldtake the anti-typhoid treatment therewould be no typhoid.. Th*-^ ha* wu*11 feet but .an carr,-» million typhoid »ern.«. Ttyphoid germs.a specialty 8anitary Butterwraps.ofprinting.
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The Blackfoot Optimist
Blackfoot, Idaho, US
Thu, Jun 17, 1915
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