Show THE I HARVEST OP DEATH A Pennsylvania Town Suffers a Fearful Fatality from Filth PHILADELPHIA May 12At todays meeting of citizens for the relief ofHufi ferers by fever at Plymouth the police s detailed to visit the surgeon infected region re-gion reported that he found the reports not to have been exaggerated In some instances four or five all persons were in one house with three or four in one room and in some instances TWO OR THREE DEAD PERSONS in the same house The only schoolhouse has been turned into a hospital Phila delphia contributed 1000 In many cases the mother or father of a large family of children died He heard of a case in which the father and mother were both down with fever and being nursed by a 14yearold boy who was also caring for a small babe Dr Shakespeare who also went to investigate the disease said that unless disinfectants were freely used the disease would not be wiped out this summer PHILADELPHIA May 13There are upward up-ward of 600 cases of sickness Fifteen deaths occurred today and thirteen yesterday yes-terday The physicians are unable to stay th6 spread of the disease which is due to the bad sanitary condition of the town there being no sewers or gutters to carry off refuse THE FRIGHTFUL EPIDEMIC PREVAILING Has practically stopped all business except ex-cept at the drug stores and undertaking establishments Six deaths from typhoid malarial fever have taken place since yesterday yes-terday and nine funerals were held today to-day The whole town appears to be in mourning At a meeting of the Borough Council last night the cause of the pestilence pesti-lence was fully discussed and it was decided de-cided to clean the streets alleys and backyards back-yards of the town at once When this work is accomplished a project for the building of sewers throughout the town will be submitted to the vote of the people peo-ple The water company of the town have notified the Council that they were supplying pure wholesome water and that one chief cause of the epidemic was a large portion of the village was supplied with WATER FROM WELLS THAT HAD BECOME POLLUTED A heavy shower fell Plymouth and its vicinity early this morning and did much toward cleaning the filthy Streets If the rain is followed by cooler weather the noxious and feverbreeding odors may be eradicated Plymouth has a population of between 7000 and 8000 Aportion of the town lies on the lowlands along the riverside while another portion extends some distance dis-tance up the hills which form the valley It is in the lower portion that the ravages of the disease are most deadly but dwellers dwel-lers on the high ground are also suffering suffer-ing severely The disease has been sudden sud-den in its appearance not having been noticed until the advent of the present hot weather The drainage of the houses finds its way to cesspools which are neuer emptied but when one is full another an-other is dug The streets and alleys are made the receptacle for EVERY KIND OF GARBAGE FILTH AND OFFAL There not a paved street in the whole town nor a properly constructed gutter through which water can escape Even in the center of the town but little attention atten-tion is paid sanitary precautions The fown is supplied largely with water from mountain streams through the pipes of the water company Whenever this supply sup-ply fails and this happens every summer sum-mer the company pumps water froIp the river polluted from the sewage of this city Scranton Pittston and aJ the towns on its course Careful estimates place the number of cases of sickness at considerably over 1000 There are in the town thirteen regularly regu-larly qualified physicians and all reworked re-worked day and night and complaining that they cannot get sufficient time for rest They have sent an appeal for assistance as-sistance to the County Medical Society The doctors all agree that the epidemic iscaused by the filthy condition of the town and the noxious gases that arise from the festering cesspools of offal and garbage that can be found at every step There have been forty wellauthenticated deaths from the disease c THE CITIZENS ARE PARALYZED And know not what to do It seems almost al-most useless to commence the work of puttingthe town in proper sanitary condition con-dition at this date The only hope they have Is the advent of a cold spell which might gLvasbme time for sanitary measures meas-ures before the heat of summer In many of the houses the whole l family is prostrated andiave tp depend on neigh borslorcare and attention The drugstores drug-stores are crowded day and night with purchasers of medicines and preventatives preventa-tives and it is no exaggeration to say that a perfect reign of terror exists |