Carriers' Cholecystectomy

The gall bladder is a slender, pear-shaped sac attached to the under side of the liver. Its purpose is to receive, concentrate and store the bile which the liver produces and, after a meal containing bacon, cream or other fats, to squirt some of its supply into the intestines. Typhoid fever germs occasionally slip into the gall bladder and tenaciously resist all medical efforts to dislodge them. They make a chronic typhoid carrier of the person whose gall bladder they infest.

New York State contains 700 known typhoid carriers. Few of them have "submitted to the operation for the removal of gall bladder, usually an effective procedure for ridding the system of typhoid germs. Hoping to persuade more to undergo cholecystectomy. Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., State Health Commissioner, last week announced that 91 New York typhoid carriers have had their gall bladders out during the past 15 years, and hence may live as they please, without official surveillance.

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