Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1912 — Sanitary Advice for Summer Tourists [ARTICLE]

Sanitary Advice for Summer Tourists

Some of the tourists, from the cities, who so eagerly go forth on their summer vacations, will have typhoid fever in the autumn. > It has always been so in the past, but must not continue in the future. The germ,s must be planted in one before the disease can appear, and we now know that the summer resorter is apt to acquire them. Persons seeking for a ‘'nice place” to go generally ask as to the character of the food and beds, the social life, the music, the fishing or hunting, the temperature and the bath ing. A few now ask about • the purity of the water supply, and a very few ask is the sewage disposed of in a sanitary manner. Later, everyone will ask these last two questions and will further ask—have they flies? If the resort has bedbugs, a great outcry

will be made and departure will be prompt; yet bedbugs are not near as nasty nor as dangerous to health, as are flies. From infancy all are taught to abhor bedbugs and speed the time when from infancy all are taught to abhor flies. Summer tourists, from cities which are well sewered and which have pure water supplies, will cease having typhoid fever at home in the autumn, when they cease patronizing resorts where flies abound, where the water is not pure, and where the sewage and garbage is not disposed of in a sanitary manner—J. N. Hufty.