The season of outdoor sports is at hand but there is one, indulged in for the most part by kiddies, that must be watched, a Concord physician stated Tuesday.
That is the habit of wading in streams that appear pleasing to the eye. Grave danger of contracting typhoid fever is being encountered by many youngsters who are being allowed to go wading and swimming in polluted streams, the physician stated, after he had noticed a number of kiddies enjoying life in a stream that is not as clean as it should be for such sport.
“In such cases,” the physician stated, “it is impossible to keep the youngsters from putting their hands to their mouths, and it is in this fashion that the disease is contracted. Parents must see to it that their children are kept out of those streams if the proper safeguard is to be taken.” In a number of instances the doctor said, he knows that children contracted typhoid fever from dirty streams.
Only a very few cases of typhoid fever have been reported in Cabarrus county in recent years, a survey of the records shows, health authorities having been active in removing fever sources as far as possible. In addition, hundreds of persons have been inoculated, the city water supply is constantly watched and everything else done to rid the city and county of this dread malady.
Where persons have not been inoculated, the physician urges that this be done at once, either by the family physician or at the county health department.
From page 2 of The Concord Daily Tribune, June 16, 1926
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