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Show TYPHOID AND THE CAUSE. We suggest that there be further analyses of the water supply of this city including the sediment sedi-ment at the bottom of the reservoirs and likewise like-wise of the milk supply of the city be made. It is natural that typhoid should come from the flowing flow-ing wells inthe lower part of the city. Cess pools are generally dug to the gravel, the wells go to the gravel and the sipeage of filth through the gravel toward the river has been going on steadily for fifty years. But there is typhoid ty-phoid in other parts of the city where no flowing wells are known. This is belirved to come either from filth on the premises or from the water or milk supply and investigation should not cease until un-til the cause is discovered. It should go to all the streams that enter the city mains, it should go to the entire milk and fruit supply of the city. Indeed, In-deed, some people charge the epidemic to the half-matured, half-poison cantaloupe sold by truck wagons. Formerly many families had no water for domestic purposes save that which flows along the streets or from wells dug on their premises If that practice continues in any part of the city it should be stopped. Thee are reasons why it is difficult to stamp out diphtheria and scarlet fever. Attendants upon those ill with these diseases dis-eases are often careless and the filth in the dust of unsprinkled streets is blown everywhere. This, too, may be a factor In spreading typhoid, for why should not typhoid germs be scattered as well as any others. Then the other poisons thus distributed distrib-uted enfeeble people and reduce their capacity to throw off disease when stricken. The streets were 'never so poorly sprinkled before, though the experience of the last twelve years makes it clear that the most effective sanitary measure ever adopted in the city was the street sprinkling. Everything possible should be done to combat this invasion of typhoid and business men should be impressed as never before nf the necessity of J bringing the water of the Cottonwoods to the city I without delay. If the city was a- mine, and the bringing of that -water in was essential to the working of the ores, the means to bring U would be raised. The business of this city is vastly more important import-ant than the working of any mine, the health of the city is of much more importance than its business, |
