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Show ON FEVER I SITUATION Rccerds Arc Presented in I Answer to Dr. Wilcox's ; Statement. i I At the joint discussion of the water situation by the special Water committee com-mittee and the. public, Wednesday sight, Dr. Wilcox made the statement ' that of the few typhoid cases" in the ! city the most of them occurred in sec-! sec-! tlons of the city where there were ar-.. ar-.. tesian wells, 'the. water being used by j those stricken with typhoid fever. The ; Telegram immediately placed a . man i on the records in the office of the City Board of Health and the following flg- . ures are the result of his investlga- tlons: From September 1, 1904, to August 31, 1905. the number of cases of typhoid fever reported by physicians to the ! Board of Health was 227. These figures were obtained by canvassing the separ-ate separ-ate reports of the physicians filing ' same. Number of cases per month dur- ing the year covered by the figures ! above is 19. The first sixty cases taken ta-ken were Investigated with the result that of the number six cases were i found to be on premises where artesian j water flowed, but in the same houses city water was on tap. This makes the ; Bhowlng of 90 per cent of the sixty cases occurring where city water alone was used, 10 per cent In premises where " artesian water was used In connection ) with city water. ' Without Partiality. The statement of City Physician Wilcox Wil-cox that typhoid is confined to any particular par-ticular portion of the city Is not borne out by the records on file In' the Board of Health office. The list of names and addresses Is too long and prosy for publication, but a scrutiny of it shows that the malady has occurred without partiality In every portion of the city where city water flows. While no statistical sta-tistical table has been prepared it appears ap-pears that Emigration canyon water, which is taken from the first stratum below ..the surface, has been drunk by Znost typhoid fever patients. . - Another fact that stands out boldly is that during the past twenty-two days of the -current month, when prater has been lowest and most liable to pollution i by ammonia and other vegetation produced pro-duced . poison, the number of death cases of typhoid fever patients has increased in-creased to thirty-eight, of which thirty-seven thirty-seven were reported to the Health board. This Is within a fraction of being be-ing double the average number for the ntire preceding twelve months. These j facts are taken from official records. They are worthy of careful considera- I tlon. J TLow to Test Water. ' Water users who desire to test the i purity of their potable water will find 'the following directions useful. They :&re so simple and of so little trouble 'that any one can' make the test. The New Jersey State Board of Health of-: of-: flclally recommends the use of this test j to the people of that State. It is not 1 the only test for impure water. There ! are several other quite as simple that jwill b given later: ,' Fill a clean pint bottle three-quarters I full with the water to be tested; add ' j to it a half ,teaspoonf ul of clean granulated gran-ulated or crushed loaf sugar; stop the . j bottle- with a glass stopple or a clean ;ork aad let the bottle stand in the ' j light In a moderately warm room. If in twenty-four or forty-eight hours the i water becomes cloudy or milky it is un-sflt un-sflt for domestic use. While cloudiness ' In the water after . standing certainly ' Indicates unfitness for use, yet a nega- ! tive result does not prove the water to be good, because the test often fails to 1 Indicate organic matter really present j j If phosphates are absent. |