Show WATER FOUND TO BE IMPURE Harms Reports on Lambs and aB ai Parleys ts Canyon Creeks 4 TRACES NITRITES I IN N BOTH t I SEVEN BEVEN NEW w ius OF o TYPHOID AU An OB Jm t Ld It Tt la b upon the citizens of 7 Salt Lake City to boll their drinking water The result of ot the chemical anal analyses analI az of or the tIM waters water of Parleys arleye and Lambs canyons canyon creeks cr as an made by I City Chemist Herman Harms show bow that the waters water are not absolutely pure I or uncontaminated I While tM tj analyses Iy did dd not DOt reveal the I actual presence of typhoid fever germa germs thy they showed the presence of nitrites Doctors Doctor have agreed that the presence of o nitrites nitrite in the waters water of ot any stream is sufficient 1 to condemn it for tor domestic and culinary purposes unless it is MI 1 first Ant bailEd The city elty chemist makes wakes his rep report rt upon three samples amples of ot water procured by Dr Lr M 11 H Stewart when the health commissioner visited the two canyons In quest of oC the cause causo e or source of the I present typhoid fever epidemic One was wa taken at the mouth of ot Parleys Parley canyon another at the junction of the two canyons and the third feet be low Jow the Bullock ranch in Lambs can 7 yon yen Water Somewhat Suspicious I The analysis of the water secured ed at the mouth of Parleys canyon which was secured at a depth of three feet did pot show the slightest trace of or a bacilli colon In conse conee oon e quence Chemist Harms pronounces the water of ordinary purity But he has baa an aa entirely different re port to make ma on the sample ample taken at the junction of the two canyons He finds a faint trace of nitrites The other othel unfavorable foreign substances compel him to condemn the water with the remark Water somewhat t suspicious i The same ame condemnation is placed upon u m the th water vater taken feet teet bel w the Bullock ranch in Lambs Imbs canyon That bottle boUle of ot water also showed a trace or of o nitrites and is condemned as somewhat hat suspicious For those reason it is urged by the t and physicians that tha t everybody boll boil their water And boil boll it thorough 1 ly Jy and then see that It does not be become become come contaminated Contaminated I boiled r water Is just as 88 S liable to spread typhoid fever ever as water ater winch watch has hu never ben teec 11 heated to the boiling point i Disease Continues to Spread The present cold snap has so fa had no appreciable effect upon the epi demic for the number of cases reported yesterday seven was wal one more than on Wednesday day when but six patients names were vere sent ent to the board of health One Ohe of or the cases etl reported yesterday I that of ot Domingo Doe Dof cannot be attrib aUrI attributed to the waters of Salt Lake City for the th man hns has only onh Just recently Te come com from Idaho He Is Ia i a R South Routh African ne De negro Dero gro ro and has been n given ghen the name nanie of ot Doe because no U one can spoil spell his hl fam tam ily fl name and he be i jf too ill III to spell it I himself He Is at Holy Cross Co roa hospital j Miss Mis Mi Burton A nurse nurge of ot St Marks hoe hos hospital pital is le among the list fist of new patients Where she contracted the d disease she he does don not know I The Tho seen reven new ne cares cae a e reported to the board boid of health heith ht up i to S 5 oe yester 7 yeut r f i day n C foi fO 1 i September are as follows follow Robert Crosby aged ag 6 5 50 son of cf Byron 1 m H street Miss Burton aged a II 2 57 Fast East Fourth South street treet Ralph Ward I rop aged 18 West First FInd North i street treet William WilHam Little aged 97 37 54 Grape street t Milton KUton S 8 Morley aged aced 4 son man n of William Morley SM 45 South Fourth West street Alexander Alexa r Ander Asder son lIOn 1228 1225 Poplar street tret Domingo Doe Holy Hf ly Cross ero hospital |