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Show ISTATE BOARD IS 1 BLflHEDJY CITY Salt LaJe Health Officials Say Typhoid Js Due to Negligence. STATE OFFICERS KAIL TO REPORT CASES OF DISEASE j Authorities Decide to Bar Dairy j Products From Fairvicw and Iudianola. Milk and" but-v from "airvicw and 1 1 1 -ilianola. in h'anpete county, arc Itlnuied by ilic city licallb and food auiliorllics lor much of the typhoid lover iu- Halt Luke City. I'alrviow and Iudianola milk dealers. In whose families oxlpr.cd :a-xs of typhoid fever in laro numbers.' havo been .iip-plying .iip-plying milk and butter Lo .SalL Lake City Iu lar-c (tuaiutites for several wee'.cs, and inasmueli as typiioid liacHlus lives in butter but-ter or milk for two or three weeks, the city food and health authorities nrc confident confi-dent Hint much of .Salt Lake's typhoid in th" last month or po Is directly traceable trace-able to the stream of dairy products thai lias been comlupr Into the city from tho two typiioid afflicted Sanpete countj town?. 1 As a result of the typhoid epidemics ni Kaltvlew and Indlanolu. the city food and health authorities have decided to bar ; dairy products from these places from the city until Hie conditions there are bul-1 bul-1 lered. and this mornliifc incoming trains ; will be met by city food inspectors and I'mllk. butler and cream from Katrvb-w ami Iudianola will be excluded iroin the city. 1 Make " Inspection Trip. From outside sources the city food and health authorities learned. ci;;i'.t or tn days ii?n, that many cases of typhoid fever existed in Fain lew and Indlanola, ! ami City I;"ool Commissioner Waller J. j Fnizlr-r 'mitilc a trip of Inspection to Hie two towns tho latter purl of Inst week. ; The condltloha bo found ueru alarmlu" i aud revolting. In Falrvlow alonn .Mr. Irrazer fouifd twenty-two cafes of typiioid. Heads of olsht finllis in which Uphold existed . were selling cream to the P'nnview j creamery and dairy, which sdilps .to Salt Lake denleiv. ami wer furnlsldnf; liotli 'milk and butler direct to local dairies. j Tlieie I. little or no sanitation. Mr. l'fazier report.':, excreta, from typhoid (patients hcln? dumped In th open, from which the draluuco carries It into welhi 1 and irrigation ditches ami In which milk leans frequently are washed. Thy barns arc filthy and tho corrals are m ooltcr. There was little or 110 disinfection, Mr. ICi-izier says. In the cuii tor of the town Mr. Fra.ier founrl an old slauprbler hous which has 110 floor, the blood from slain animals belli:; be-lli:; allowed lj .voep into the ground and then Into wells or irrigation streams. In the family uf iho nwner uf t tils ahiushlcr house is typhoid fever. Home of tho dairy products produced at Indlanola co lo the Kalrvlew oi-eani-ery. while others come directly lo this city. The products brought here tire eol-lei-tcd once a week, ami until Hie collei-tion collei-tion Is mmJe are stored In dugouta and unprotected, in many instances,' from the seepage ami other foreign matter. Soma of the cream the .falrvlow creamery will not accept, but the demand for this product Is so ercat in Ogde.ii and Halt Lake City that much of the produul refused re-fused by U10 Kalrvlew concern Is accepted by the .Junction City and local dealers. Human excreta frequently is deposited in the Tudiauolu Irrigation ditches in which jnlllc cans often arc dipped, t lie city food commissioner says. Soon Mr. Krazier expects lo make a similar Inspection of tho dairy supply of southern Ulali. and if typhoid fever eases I In large, numbers are found the supply there will be treated similarly to that of I'airview and Indlanola. .Mr. Krazier also will ask the slate health board to keep him supplied with a list of the typhoid fever cases developing develop-ing In the territory from which Salt Lake t'ity gels its dairy supply. This will enable the oily health and food departments depart-ments to cheek up on the milk and bultor supply immediately aud reduce danger of spread of contagion and infection through tills source. |