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Show . - THE DANGER OF TYPHOID. The city of Scranton, Pa., has just gone through a siege of typhoid. Dr. Jonathan M. Wainwright gives the particulars in the New York Medical Journal. Jour-nal. - The water supply runs through a town of some 800 inhabitants, all the sewage of which empties into this tributary stream more or less directly. For many years the water from the Elmhurst reservoir was discharged from the top over a .spillway- and run through a brook several miles, and then into a distributing dis-tributing reservoir, from which it was supplied to the city. Last October this system was stopped and the water was piped directly to the city from an out-take out-take near the bottom of the lake That delivered the typhoid bacilli in concentrated form directly into the city mains. The result was that up to January 31 there were. 1121 cases of typhoid and 100 deaths. We mention this merely to put our own city authorities au-thorities on the alert. A large extra supply of water is being turned into this city from Cottonwood canyon. can-yon. The first thing to do ought to be to examine that canyon all the way up and see what is being turned into the creek. Many years ago a typhoid epidemic broke out at a big mine up the canyon and it was never stopped until the manager, Mr. William F. James of this city, piped water for the mine from a spring and forbade all the employees using the water in the creek. In the next six weeks all the canyons, which supply the city with water, should be thoroughly examined, because men are careless animals, and there are plenty of men that travel with teams and with flocks and herds up our canyons, who are not at all particular what the effectma' be on the streams. And they are a class of men that can only be reached by force. We hope the city will have the canyons that supply sup-ply the city with water patrolled all through the spring months. It is very easy to start a typhoid epidemic epi-demic and it is very hard to crush it out. |