IS TYPHOID PREVENTIBLE?
Typhoid is a disease of bacilli — typhoid bacilli ; and the bacilli we find in human excrement, and in drinking water fouled by such excrement. It is probable that no man or woman ever takes typhoid except by swallowing some typhoid bacilli. They may be swallowed, as we havo said, in drinking water, or they may he flying about in the air in the neighbourhood of typhoid excrement, and may be swallowed with mouthf uls of air. What then is the first and last commandment of typhoid prevention? "Cleanliness ; personal and public cleanliness." It is all there. If we keep ourselves clean ; if Ave keep our drinking water clean ; if we keep our closets and our drains, our kitchens, sculleries, gardens, streets and towns entirely clean, typhoid will be practically as great a stranger to most of us as is the ghost of King Solomon or the shade of the extinct Deinotherium. — Hospital.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5626, 25 July 1896, Page 2
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155IS TYPHOID PREVENTIBLE? Star (Christchurch), Issue 5626, 25 July 1896, Page 2
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