This subject is kindred to Plague prevention, but is of more immediate intere-t as it is directed against a disease which is always with us, is on the increase, has been lately more fatal, and from its duration and interference with health causes much loss of service and interference with work wherever young people are employed.
'So large a proportion of young people within a year or two of their arrival in the East, be it India or China, are struck down with' typhoid fever, that' it is now felt in different quarters that something more is demanded in the way of prevention than the precautions hitherto in use. Unfortunately, those affected are the least able to take the necessary precautions, having little or no control over their surroundings, being mostly young men in rooms or lodgings.
T have to point out that in pursuance of this end, a fair and increasing proportion of men proceeding to India for public servi now submit themselves to anti-typhoid coculation before leaving home. This is not a question of general inoculation, but affects only those predisposed by age and recent arrival, Very little disturbance to health is produced by these inject T understand that the Health Officer is willing to prepare the material in the Inboratory an! arrange that those willing to take advantage of thix typhoid fever can thus do preparation practically involves no more risk to the laboratory inmates and the public than does the usual laboratory work, and the cost will be trifling.
The method of action of these injections is the same as that described in my note on Haffkin's prophylactic injections. When she Health Laboratory was first proposed and the matter submitted to the ratepayers, this particular utilization of it—the preparation of prophylactic injection material—was "ped mentioned as a reason for founding it. physician in practice. it is my intention to Invite such of my patients as are specially exposed and therefore interested in escaping typhoid fever, to present themselves for injection as soon as a supply of mut for that purpose is ready.
'The Sanitary Board recommends that the Health Officer be instructed to prepare material for anti-typhoid injection and to arrange as may seem to him best, so that those wishing to take advantage' of this method of disease prevention may be enabled to do so.
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