“Does Typhoid Vaccination Protect?” from the May, 1921, issue of The Health Bulletin,
published by the North Carolina State Board of Health and distributed for free
to any citizen of the state upon request.
The most interesting extensive recent epidemic of typhoid occurred
in October and November of last fall, 1920, in Salem, Ohio. In a population of
10,305 there were 882 cases of typhoid fever, or one person out of every 11.6
of the population.
Among 210 ex-service men, all of whom, of course, had been vaccinated
in the Army, and who were between 20 and 30 years of age, there were three
cases, or one case in every 70. Whereas, among women of the same age, 20 to 30,
there was one case in every eight.
In short, typhoid vaccination increased the
natural resistance to the disease and protection against it nine times. This is
a big lesson for the public to be derived from the Salem experience, and today
is the day of salvation. GET VACCINATED.
--W.S.R.
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