eone is at fault somewhere for
every case of typhoid fever that occurs.

Bad sanitary conditions, such as lack of drainage, open cess-pools,
sewer gas, decaying vegetable matter, etc., may favor the contraction of
the disease, but cannot cause it unless the specific germ, the typhoid
bacillus, is present.

The water supply of a community becomes infected by the entrance into it
of the excreta (stools and urine) of persons suffering from typhoid
fever.

Milk (in which typhoid bacilli grow and multiply very rapidly) usually
becomes infected by washing out milk cans with water in which these
bacilli are present, or from the presence of the bacilli on the hands or
persons of those handling milk. Oysters spread the disease when they
have been "freshed" in water rich in sewage and containing the typhoid
bacillus. Flies, whose bodies have become foul with typhoid excreta, may
infect food, milk, etc. Those who take care of typhoid patients may
contract the disease if they do not at once disinfect their hands after
handling the patient, or clothing or bedding which has become soiled
with the discharges.

How to Keep From Getting Typhoid Fever.--If the chance of infection is
to be reduced to a minimum, all drinking water, concerning the character
of which there may be the slightest doubt, should be boiled, and all
milk, the handling and care of which is not absolutely beyond suspicion,
should be pasteurized or boiled. All food supplies (meat, milk,
vegetables, etc.), should be carefully protected against flies, and
flies should not be permitted access to the sick-room, the kitchen nor
to the room in which the meals are eaten. Bathing at all beaches which
have sewers emptying in their immediate vicinity should be strictly
avoided. In the majority of cases it is probable that the system must be
slightly below par in order that the disease may be contracted;
therefore, all indigestible food, green fruit, etc., which may set up
indigestion or diarrhea, and so render the system more susceptible to
infection, should be avoided. In addition, the elementary rules of
cleanliness and hygiene, both as to the house and person, should be most
strictly observed. No member of a household in which a case of typhoid
fever occurs should take food in any form without previously washing the
hands.

Typhoid bacilli enter the body only through the mouth. If sufficient
care be taken to prevent their entrance, the contraction of the disease
can b