Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-08-23 | Page 5 | Typhoid Spread by Water in Cistern

TYPHOID SPREAD BY WATER 1 CISTERN Thirty Persons Stricken at Twin Falls and One Sue cumbs to Disease pecia to Th Trtbu e TWXV FVLLS uc is the re sult of dntUxin water 1 om a nan I filled c stem ten people of a part of tlurt were str ken with tjphoid 1c er ODe of w on died in the Twin 1 bo i ti The h were members of th . man Luth ran Tounjr People s lea The nere gathered at the 11 r Beecher home, just south of the tT about six weeks ago for a soc al e ont at which time all of the partv drank freely from the cistern A few weeks later ten of the party were str cken including H T Beecher and the wife and daughter of the German Lutheran pastor 1 De t Erickson, one of the party su imbed to the attack and Miss Bertha Polzin lies at the po nt of death The others are Benously 11 but phvsicians state they will probably re cover V large amount of surface water is thought ta have seeped nto the c stern It was condemned by health off cers and is being thoroughly leaned and sterilized.