Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-01-26 | Page 8 | Additional Protection

t Addi Additional tiona I P Protection I SALT ALT LAKE CITY had but nine cases of typhoid fever last year and t ten 1 of them ame game came to the city from other towns None of these thee cases co could ld be traced to the w ter water ater or milk I II I f 4 supply of Salt Lake City according t to 9 the report of the city board of health Salt Lake has long been proud of its pure water and usually the tourists tourist's first favorable comment on the city is ison ison ison on the clear water bubbling from the street foun foun- But only by eternal vigilance on the part of health officials has the water been kept free from contamination Now it has developed that our water supply is menaced in new ways and nd an amendment has been proposed in the state legislature legislature legislature legis legis- lature to the present law giving health inspectors increased jurisdiction over ver the streams and surrounding surrounding surrounding sur sur- rounding territory The old law which was passed some years ago igo gave the health department jurisdiction fifteen fifteen fifteen teen miles mites from the intake and and- for feet on either side of the streams Since that time automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile tr traffic in the canyons during the summer S has increased enormously cottages have been built and in some places new mines have been S opened I IThe The proposed amendment would give the inspectors inspectors inspectors in in- in- in jurisdiction for twenty-five twenty miles mites above the intake and to the top of the watersheds on both sides of the streams from which the city takes its water vater It would also give the inspectors jurisdiction over tributary streams In view o of present conditions which according to Dr Willard health commissioner are increaSing increasing increasing ing the danger of contamination to the water the amendment would seem to be necessary anc and should pass