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Show MILL CREEK REPORTS MYSTERIOUS MALADY Believed to Ec Duo fo Contaminated Water Supply; Dr. Snyder Investigates. Existence of a strange malady iu half a dozen homes a I o i : Mill Creek near the mouth of the canyon was reported to Dr. C. C. Snyder, county physician, yesterday. Immediate investigation lv Dr. Snyder resulted in . the discovery that the disease prevails only in those homes that rely on an open ditch leading lead-ing from the creek for their driukiug water. investigating along this ditch above the points of intake at. the various houses where the disease has broken out, Dr. Snyder found a pig pen and a chicken coop in proinixitv to the water. Ho concluded that the trouble was due to the drinking water and ordered or-dered a cleanup of all the premises alone the creek. The disease, to the best of the countv physician's know-lodge, resembles tv-phoid tv-phoid in some respects, though differing enough to cause doubt in the diagnosis. |