Show supplement TO AUGUST BULLETIN r the june ju oe issued J JuliJ Sili tailed attention to the approach of 0 tak th typhoid sea urged the adoption ot of precautions by means ot of which the til disease sease might bo be prevented unfortunately Unfortunate lys many ciany have neglected these measures as shown by the report incomplete ot of US cue canes including 8 deaths dur during lill tho the month of august the prevalence tills distressing and deadly disease disease Is dally increasing throughout the state an and d unless restricted strict ed will coutin continue us to increase from week to week during daring the next three DI four mouths months before the end ot of that period hundreds ot of people now well and unconscious ot of danger will be stricken and scores will die la in their death certificates cerUll cates should be inserted as the cause of death manslaughter in each individual case some other person will have bare been positively or directly responsible lor for the death again let it be repeated and emphasized that typhoid lever fever cannot be caused by anything else except the typhoid organism which are off la the excreta 0 a previous case the law demands that this material shall be dis infected and fall ure tu to do so constituted a misdemeanor it should instead be made a telony felony ony and the penalty strictly enforced why my should a person parson be permitted to scatter a poison which la Is liable to find its way to the system of another and destroy him with a lesi les penalty penally attached to the crime than that which would be inflicted were he be to fire a gun at random landom into a crowd of people killing ono one or more toe tile latter latler death coulp be more merciful tul a as s it would wo ulc be free from the agony accompanying typhoid fever an ali educated public sentiment should demand that the crime ing D typhoid lever fever shall cease and that the law requiring the simple and effective measures described shall be enforced it Is the duty ot of beirth officers and physicians lo in attendance in every case to instruct people as to the requirements of law and to see that they are carried out but ignorance of the law and the disastrous consequences liable to result from itu lt violation should not col be allowed to extenuate every such violation that Is d wf ba 0 towed by rigid jut tou tion and persons agno ignorant rant or indifferent as to the eat consequence of their failure to safeguard the lives of others other made to realize the gravity of their offense in this connection health off officers leers fire are urged to enforce without mercy the law requiring physicians and others to report typhoid fever as without the information thus obtained restrictive measures cannot be ea enforced forced or the source of the disease intelligently investigated the usual channel through which the typhoid germ la Is conveyed la Is the drinking water and it Is the duty of citizens generally and especially of at the local authorities to safeguard the water supply when aften typhoid lever fever excreta ire are deposited in the usual receptacles all wells in the vicinity become at once a menace to those who drink the water A very large proportion ot of typhoid fei teer er be tides other serious maladies occurring in this state stale result from the foregoing conditions inmost in moat of 0 tile the towns this danBer Oua evil may easily be remedied as nature mature has bas provided close at baud mountain springs I 1 and streams of 01 pure water which may be utilized at a minimum cost coat failure to take advantage of 0 the privilege is a reflection upon the intelligence of 0 those in authority and aad the community elects them to if the citizens ol of these towns would arouse them selves and make a pure water supply and the public health a political lebue iesue it atwould would not bo be long until scores ot of towns now condemned to polluted wells and ditches and thelt their attendant evil would rejoice in ah a pure water system and abe safety comfort and increased prosperity prop erity secured thereby T B secretary |