KEEPING WELL 243 



of disease contracted from eating diseased pork, incut, and 

 fish. The United States Department of Agriculture is 

 making every effort to inspect such products, and tin- 

 department is fairly successful in inspecting the larger 

 establishments. However, many cattle and hogs are killed 

 and sold locally and they escape inspection, so that buyers 



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The Story of the Epidemic op Septic Soke Throat at Rockvoxe Centre. L. I. 



Figure 245. 



of this meat have no protection against a general condition 

 of disease. 



Another danger to health is from the people known as 

 "carriers" of disease, as such people give no evidences of 

 illness. Typhoid and diphtheria are the two diseases 

 most likely to be carried in this way. Many of these 

 carriers serve as cooks, and as they give no evidence of 

 being in other than perfect health, they often spread the 

 germs through the food they prepare. If habits of abso- 

 lute cleanliness are insisted upon, much of the danger of 

 the dissemination of srerms in this way will be removed. 



