Show TYPHOID RAVAGES ARE UNCHECKED Thirtyfour Cases Reported in Salt Lake Since Oct 1 AUTHORITIES STAND IDLE LARGELY QUESTION OF WATER AND SANITATION The s same Caine distressing condition with ref ret i erenee to the prevalence of typhoid fever i in Salt SaIt Lake which existed last year ear Is reported again asan this fall fan There Is an gly large number of cases of this dread disease With ith the month of ot October only little more than half over the official records of reported cases show a total of thirtyfour The city health authorities content themselves with a comparison showing snowing the situation Is no worse than last year This year ear the disease prevails more ex in the northwestern portion of the city Ity and in the western part gen lally although there have been beNt a number of gases pases on the east side both on the rise to toward toward toward ward the tho th bench and on the lower ground toward the southwest The reason assigned by b numerous doc tors who were asked about tIe the situation yesterday is that the greater number of cases of oC the disease exist in the north northwestern northwestern northwestern western part of oC town because of the low lying character of or the land the natural seepage the wells and the fact fat that the great majority of the peo people PIe pay pa no attention to sanitation Suggestions for the prevention of a re of the epidemic If such suh it might be called resolve themselves into this Better water If IC the city mains were extended to the districts where the great greater er part of the cases eases occur and the people connected with the city eft supply pipes In staad of ot using the flowing wells as they are at present doing it is said the number of typhoid fever cases would be minim Carried by Infection Typhoid fever cannot be transmitted by contact with the person afflicted If IC one becomes a victim of the disease he must have nave swallowed water or food containing the germ The germ term is present In water contaminated with sewage or 0 in water that 21 does 3 not drain and flow In volume sufficient to dilute the infection and thus with the aid pf oxidization remove the danger Still or sluggish water however Is a menace at all alI times s and as the north northwestern northwestern northwestern western part of the city is a section suf fering topographical disadvantages In this respect It Is a natural consequence say sa the doctors that typhoid fever cases should be more numerous there than In districts where the sewage systems are perfect and where the water supply is pure One of the chief causes of typhoid in the low area referred to Is the use uee there of wells or wells of or the lond kind The water obtained from these sources It is said uniformly Is so near the surface as to be little better than drainage Typhoid T germs as has haR been stated com corn communicate communicate themselves by bv means of en trance to the human system through the mouth The most common means of in Is through the tIlE water supply al though there are not Infrequent cases casos that can be traced directly direct to the milk mille supply Salt Lake doctors however say that the milk furnished consumers is up to the standard of purity with rare ex exceptions exceptions If water and milk and food are boiled or cooked there can b be no of the typhus germ Uncooked food it is said by the doctor is responsible for a large number off of typhoid fever cases List of Cases Reported The cases reported to the health board from the first of at the month to the present time are Helen Bois IS 18 East Second South Carlyle Tanner 12 son of Mrs rs Jennie Tanner 43 North First West Aretta Young IS 18 daughter of Richard Young Toung 30 05 First avenue Arta KImball 19 daughter of A H Kimball aO 50 0 Gordon avenue George Butterfield 17 Fifth East hotel May lIa Klein 5 daughter of Peter Klein West est Sixth North Vernon Highan 11 child of oC Annie G Highan G O street streeL H Howes HoweR 32 5 SU South Eighth West Florence Thomas 12 daughter of oC Ellas Elias Thomas West Seventh South Susan D Lindley Portland James Mair 50 South Fourth East Philip 40 1123 East Second South Boyd Parks 12 son of Sam Parks Frank 4 son of William Bag flag ley Ie South Main Arthur Morehouse 3 son of Edward Morehouse North Fifth West Nellie Gaugh 28 25 the daughter of Mrs Irs J 3 T Gaugh 01 North Third West WestA A 20 a Japanese 25 S Richards street treated at St S1 Marks hospital M 1 22 2014 West Temple a Jap Japanese Japanese anese anels William Jackson a negro 34 4 son of J JW JJackson JW W Jackson South State Margaret Crowton X 6 North orth Eighth West Albert Anderson 19 L D S hospital George 26 2 North Fifth West Mrs R M 11 Caldwell 25 L D S hos hospital pital Sibyl Whitmore 13 daughter of oC Brig Brigham Brigham Brigham ham Whitmore Overton Nev Ne NeBessie Bessie flessie Haywood 14 It Second West and Second North LIIlIe Edwards ds South Sixth East E st J C Buist 26 1037 1017 West Test Fourth South Raymond Badertscher 10 son of G J Badertscher East Seventh South John Mill Hill 19 son of Thomas Hill Alma avenue Leonard Mitchell 10 son of C J Mitch Mitchell ell eli 4 court Mrs rs Dennis Sullivan 32 2 20 Emery Emer street Byron flied RIed 12 son of J 1 B flied Ried R Ie d 65 West Vet North Temple Alfred Martin 12 the son of F J Mar Martin Martin Martin tin Mead ead avenue Le Le Grand Backman Beckman 10 son of ofGus Gus 21 North seventh West |