Efforts to control antibiotic resistant infections. A coordinated community effort

Since June 1958 the medical society, the medical institutions and the medical professions in Orange County have conducted an intensive program to control and prevent the spread of antibiotic resistant infections.In this community-wide effort, rules designed to protect the hospital population against infectious dangers have been developed and enforced, courses in food-handling and housekeeping sanitation have been given to hospital employees, and a program to solve some of the laboratory aspects of antibiotic resistant infections has been developed.