Show I FEVER RESEMBliNG TYPHUS REPORTED I IN UNITED IB STATES I Public Health Service to toMake Make Searching Inquiry Into Facts BY er rc a t Service Ic I on March arch S Officials of or tho United States public health service have luno started a a. general Investigation into the presence In some sorno parts of ot the tho country of or a 1 mysterious disease re resembling resembling re- re In Its Us symptoms the typhus fever fc now ravaging ra large larse portions of or central Europe This became known today toda when wh n It was admitted b by a high official of or the public health service that hundreds of ot communications have o been received b by bythe bythe I the office of or the sun surgeon general from persons who stated thc they were suffering suffer suffer- lug Ins from a peculiar form of ot itch ac accompanied ac acv companied by fever generally recognized recognized to be bo the first tint symptoms of or ty U ty- S Speedy Six Action So numerous have havo these letters INters be become become become be- be come that public health service oW- oW officials daIs dals have o started a thorough gation gatlon Should this disclose evidence of ot the tho actual existence of or typhus steps will be taken to stamp It out According to these officials the tho disease disease dis dis- ease enso is communicated from one person J to another almost solely b by a body hody I I louse which Introduces the germs In inthe tho the skin of or tho the victim and for this reason Is generally confined to the poorer classes Dr Hugh S S. Cummings s surgeon surgeon- general of oC the public health service who recently returned from froma a t two o years years' survey of or pl plague ue conditions In InI Europe has issued instructions that r quarantine regulations regarding tho the fumigating of or ships an and cargoes from froman an any suspected European ports should bo be drastically enforced In order to prevent prevent prevent pre pre- vent the Importation of ot the disease into the Untied States A Assured d The result of or tho the Investigation into the alleged ed typhus conditions It Is la un understood understood un- un will be given full publicity as soon oon as JS agents of tho public health service complete the C survey Tho utmost utmost ut ut- ut- ut most confidence was vas expressed by officials of the service that even If U the disease exists in some sections of ot tho the country countr It can be readily Isolated and prevented from spreading |