DR. DIXON WARNS ABOUT TYPHUS Commissioner of Health Says That Precautions Should Be Taken Promptly t'rgent recommendations that health officers be on the alert to pre vent typhus fever being carried into i this country by people from foreign] countries, especially Mexican labor-1 ers are made by Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, j State Commissioner of Health, in a : .statement issued to-day. Dr. Dixon I 'says that people should be on the j lookout for newly-arrived Mexicans and that they should supplement the! work of medical men. many of whom j have been called into war service, i leaving fewer to look after home sanitation. Dr. Dixon says: Typhus fever exists to-day in . Mexico, and thousands of Mexicans are traveling across the boundary lines into the United States in search, of work and the good money it: brings. The boundary line formed by j the Rio Grande is so long and tor-j ruous, tintt our little army of sani tarians is not able to prevent many of the Mexicans from coming into: our midst without any sanitary treat-1 ment. The danger is obvious. There is l , at present, a good amount I of scientific evidence that the cause I of typhus fever is a bacillus that is | found in the body of lice feeding on typhus fever patients. While the scientific workers continue to pursue or to prove further the guilt of the j bacillus for our typhus fever, we are | fortunate to know that whatever it} may be is carried in the body louse, and there is a fair degree of suspi cion that the head louse may also carry the organism. The body louse delights in woolen I clothing and can make itself very j much at home in cotton spun ma-1 terlal. ] To prevent the introduction of > typhus fever from Mexico into the j States, no Mexican should be trans- j ported across the boundary lines without a permit, given by the Unit- j ed State Bureau of Public Healtti I Service. All health officers should i be on the lookout for the | newly-arrived Mexicans, who are I row settling in construction camps j and around the centers of the great | industries, and when these foreign ers are found and fail to show a clean ! bill of health, they should be ex amined for lice. If these are found, j the clothes of the patient should be j burned and the body should be j shaven, washed and wrapped in a 1 sheet soaked with a mixture of one-1 half kerosene and pne-luilf vinegar, i while the head should be wrapped i in cheese cloth which has been soak-; ed in this same mixture. In looking for the lice, it is well j' to remember that when you begin i to strip the clothing they immediate ly make their retreat into its fabric.! This makes it very essential to ex-! amine the clothing and, if lice are 1 found there, it is certain that there ! are some on the body and therefore the process of disinfecting is essen tial. If conditions will not permit of the destruction of clothing, it should be; baked until all signs of life have been destroyed, or boiled in water for at least twenty minutes. If infected lice are carried across our border into our midst, typhus fever may become epidemic in many places, owing to the fact that those carrying the lice are very apt to get into crowded housing conditions, where the lice have every oppor tunity of infecting a large number ot' people. If health officers have proof that these foreigners have come from in fected districts, they should be held in quarantine for about twelve days after being cleansed, as the incuba tion stage of typhus fever is about nine days. Typhus fever is a very fatal dis ease, yet the deathrate can be great- j ly reduced by intelligent medical aid. which there has been a shortage of I in Pennsylvania for several years, dating before the outbreak of the | present war. Just now it is possible that the medical me nand the Federal govern- I ment are not making a calculation j of the necessities of our home people, i Thousands of our best physicians ind even teachers of medicine are leaving our shores for foreign coun tries. This condition of things makes ! it still more important, if we intend j to keep up the basic supply of food, | ammunition and warriors, for our home people to listen to advice from | those who are versed in preventive I medicine and to heed such advice, i All of us should be awake to the I necessity of following out sanitary laws for our own individual selfish | gain, if not because of the moral duty i we owe our country in the time of war. individual cleanliness and cleanli ness of our environment are essential in guarding against typhus fever.; The transportation companies should I demand health certificates before | transporting immigrants coming i from Mexico, and our great indus-1 tries should do all in their power to; provide proper housing for their em-! ployes, not only to avoid possible ( epidemics of typhus fever, but other! communicable diseases. I,l\ KRPOOIi NEWS ITSMS Liverpool, Pa., May 7.—Liverpool I merchants and dealers are complain- | ing of freight and express congestion i which is making it quite difficult to | receive their shipments of goods and difficult to send any article from town. The First National Bank directors! have decided to close the doors of that institution on tne Saturday aft ernoons of May, June, July and Au gust. The body of Harry Kunkle, of this place, who recently died in Phoenix, Ariz., was buried here. A meeting of the sons and grand sons of Civil War veterans was held with the G. A. R. in* its hall Friday evening to make preparations for the observance of Memorial Day. Mrs. Martha Hartzell, of Harrts burg. visited Mr. and Mrs. John Rit ter last week. Mrs. Joseph Fritz, of Altoona, was ! entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Charles! Fritz. RKT> CROSS SUPPLIES SHIPPED j Waynesboro. Pa.. May 1. —Pre- paredness Unit No. 1 has forwarded | by express the following hospital ! supplies to New York for use In the i American Hospital in France: Eighty I bandages, 40 gauze com presses, 100 tampons, 5 muslin slings and 50 gauze packings. The follow ing supplies were also shipped to the Red Cross Department, Philadelphia: Thirty laparotomy pads, 18 muslin bandages (7 yards in length>, 40 gauze compresses, 72 gauze sponges, 72 gauze drains and 12 muslin band ages. STUDENT ENLISTS IN ARMV Waynesboro, Pa., May 7.—Ernest Brindle, who has returned from the Franklin and Marshall College, at Lancaster, will go to Harrisburg to be examined by the recruiting officer. He will then go to Columbus, Ohio to join a hospital corps of the United States Army. 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