Identifier: healthinhometow00brow (find matches)
Title: Health in home and town
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Brown, Bertha Millard, b. 1870
Subjects: Sanitation, Household Public health
Publisher: Boston, D.C. Heath
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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con-tagious diseases. If they are allowed to stray into thesick room, their bodies and feet may become coveredwith germs. Kill every fly in the sick room. Typhoid Fever and the Cuban War.—During theCuban War of 1898 typhoid fever killed more men inthe army of the United States than bullets did. Withinsix weeks it developed in ninety per cent of the camps.Among the officers and men there were 20,738 caseswith 1580 deaths. This means that one fourth of thesoldiers had typhoid. Nearly nine tenths of all thedeaths were caused by this disease. How the Fever Spread. — It has been clearly shownthat flies were one of the chief means of spreading thegerms or contagion. Flies were everywhere present, THE PREVENTION OF DISEASE 271 and went freely from the contagious material to thefood while it was being prepared and served. After awhile dust, bedding, clothing, and tents became infectedand also helped to spread the disease. It is hard tobelieve that a government that has done such brilliant
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Life History of the House-Fly work in preventing disease should permit such a terribleloss of life. How to Prevent Typhoid Fever. — This disease hasalways been a menace to health whenever large bodiesof men have lived in camps. There are now two chiefways to prevent it. All sanitary measures in regard towater, drains, food, bathing, and camp life must beenforced. This is of prime importance, especially in apermanent camp. In addition, experiments have shownthat vaccination against typhoid fever will protect theperson from taking the disease or will lessen its severity.During the encampment of the troops at San Antonio,Texas, in 1911, many of the officers and men were 272 HEALTH IN HOME AND TOWN vaccinated against typhoid fever. As a result therewas very little of that disease in camp. Vaccinationmay prove as protective against typhoid fever as it hasagainst small-pox. The Campaign against Flies —While flies have alwaysbeen considered an annoyance, they are now regardedas a danger.

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