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Show L Fl Fil I GERMS, SAYS BEflTTYj Prevalence of Typhoid in Southeastern Part of City Ascribed to Other Causes. Survey of the southeast part of the ; city, recently conducted hy Dr. T. I'-. Beatty, stale health commissioner. Willi! reference to typhoid fever in particular and health conditions generally. lias , served to convince the health officer that the Jordan canal running through that district is not responsible for the preva- lence of typhoid there, but that it is due principally tu open and unsanitary loi- . lets, the owners having failed 10 connect ! witli the sewers, as required by ordi- : nance. ; Dr. Beatty included in his survey that j part of the city bounded by Seventh and I Twelfth liast streets and Ninth and j Tw enty-firsi South streets. His invesli- ; Rations embraced a careful house-to- 1 house canvass, In which it was found j lhat a large proportion of the premises on j which cases of typhoid fever had been reported had not been connected with the sewers. He says that the toilets were open and unsanitary and that swarms of flies abounded. After reviewing in his report on the situation the results of his recent survey. Dr. Beatty lays sreat stress upon the necessity for greater care in seeing that property owners connect their premises with the. municipal underground conduits for disposing of sewage and other waste which becomes a serious menace to public pub-lic health when left exposed to the air. Dr. Beatty drives a table showing the number of typhoid fever cases in Salt Lake City during the past three years, together with the number of deaths resulting re-sulting each year from this cause. The tabic shows: 1915. 120 cases, 8 deaths: 1916, 109 cases. 12 deaths; 1917, 191 casts, 22 deaths. |