Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-30 | Page 9 | State Moes to Eradicate Typhoid Fever

STATE MOVES MOVE TO ERADICATE TO-ERADiCATE TYPHOID FEVER I Ij j Disease Found Prevalent in j i Utah Due to Drouth Conditions A state program for the thc prevention the and and- control of typhoid fever fever- during the drouth emergency w was under way underway way Monday with appointment of santary sanitary sanitary sani san tary engineer and two ba bacteriologists of the board of health D DL Quentin Anderson n. engineer engineer en en- was sent into the field to make inspections inspections' of or culinary water and arid sewage systems and to forward water samples for tor analysts analysis Phillip Philip Carlquist and Ivan A. A Anderson An An- derson bacteriologists were named nan to aid Gene Thatcher Thatcher state sanit sanitary y engineer in analyzing water Three nurses also alo were sent into the field Demand for serum supplied free to boards of health and physicians is so heavy the University of Utah labora tory lory is being utilized Dr J J. J 1 L. L Jones state epidemiologist and assistant health commissioner said The program is is' being financed by bythe bythe bythe the F FER E B R A and was launched after a state report showed there is a prevalence prey prey- alence but not an epidemic of typhoid typhoid ty ty- ty because 0 of drouth conditions and that that- there is danger of ot contaminated mated culinary water being used in inmany inmany inmany many regions Coincident with the program R R. R G G. Harding field engineer for th the drouth relief relict committee committee- reported that in Rich county the water situation situa situation tion lion is serious residents tapping sha shaI shallow low wells and resorting to numerous numerous numerous' drastic measures to get water