PREVENTION OF TYPHOID.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume xxxii, Issue 8338, 7 April 1911, Page 1

PREVENTION OF TYPHOID.

The Otago Daily Times understands that a communication has been received by the medical superintendent ot the Dunediu Hospital from the District Health Officer at Dunedin with reference to the subject of prophylactic injections for the prevention of typhoid fever, with which it is suggested that the nurses who are engaged in the tyVphoid fever ward at the Dunedin Hospital should- tte treated, if they so desire it. Dr Dhaniptaloup (District Health Officer), questioned in regard to this method of treatment, said it has' been largely used at Home for some years past, principally among troops, and has now been perfected. In accordance with this means of preventing infection from typhoid, a preparation is made from cultures of typhoid bacilli, and those desiring to be rendered immune from typhoid fever receive two small injections at intervals, and the liability of contracting typhoid over the succeeding two years is then very slight, and if it should be contracted, it occurs in a very mild form. The Health Department at_ Dunedin intends preparing this material for purposes of injection, and it will also be issued through the Department to the various hospitals in the dominion.