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Show MONTICELLO WILL ELIMINATE TYPHOID Installation of New Water System Gives Town Fare Supply to Remedy Rem-edy Condltion. !,- Installing a new water system, the town of Montlcello expects to be able to eliminate the epidemic of typhoid with which it hns hod to contend almost every ;ir In the pn.st. C. Knwil Kmory, chief inspector of the 5 trite Ivuird of health, who let urncd yes-tc:d,iv yes-tc:d,iv iri'in an inspection trip through S.ni J un n and Grand coun ting, brines the infiu mat leu t lui t Mn ticello's watr system sys-tem in one of the hrst In the stale. The w atcr is supplied by a spring and H i fs d i iv c 1 1 v into a ee rn e n t rese r vo I r which i protected from nil sources of contamination. From hero it Is piped n distance of five miles to the con-Htimord con-Htimord in the town.' Heretofore the people peo-ple of the town have been compel led to drink ditch water, carried for miles In open irrigation ditches and open to oon-ta oon-ta mlna t ion f roin e cry possible source. The result was that every year the town has been ridden with typhoid. The state hertlth department has had much dlffl-eullv dlffl-eullv in dcalinc with the Uphold situation In the town, but believes that the trouble is ovor. The lienlth department has received the last of its clean-town contest reports from outside points of the stale nnd tho winner in the contest will be announced as soon ns tho reports can bo tabulated. |