Show CARBON CARD ON COUNTY MI DEATHS IN SEPTEMBER JERE WERE SIX for the month of september 1911 there were six daitha in L arbon artion county from all causes reported to the tile alito alto board of health one of these from pneumonia but nono froal typhoid fever although thare were thirteen cases ot of the latter under treatment there were four casca cases of 0 croup and five of smallpox nine health dl dh tracts reported to the state board ith two to of these free from sick ness of cn an kind the tile state board of health through its secretary dr T U B beatty eatty Il sonda sends the advocate the two cirt alara printed below 1111 mi PURE 1 if impure water causes typhoid fever and anti other diseases there Is no excuse for an all impure water ater sup ply tn lit utah it Is the duty of the proper authorities of every town to install a pure water system it la Is the duty of every citizen for the protection ot of his family to insist that pure water shall be provided in hia his locality surface wells are dangerous in towns where there Is no system an and d in which dry earth closets are not exclusively used open irrigation ditches are dangerous as a source of drinking water streams used for drinking purposes should be protected from human and other contamination the best beat water supply is 1 olle taken from front springs spring and conveyed la in pipes if it springs cannot be secured the a supply should if possible be piped from front mountain streams which are carefully lv iv protected from contamination filtration through a and filter furnishes an art additional eafe guird and can be inexpensively installed artesian welle wells are usually tily free from dangerous contamination water used tor for culi culinary purposes should bu boiled it there Is any reason to suspect its purity the state board of health will in vesti gato complaints relating to impure water sup supplies pilim in lia any locality in tha state pacts TO II 11 t tO onci ian imi ri 11 fever ever la Is a disgrace to any community for the reason that it la is a positively preventable unease disease spread ae an a result of agnor 1 ance or willful carelessness in 1910 there were nere in utah more than 1500 cases and anti many deaths from the disease I 1 fever Is caused by a germ which originates solely in a previous case of the disease anti which ie Is given off in vast numbers in the discharges from the body the disease Is contracted by swallowing food or water aich con tain typhoid germs the germs gernis arb deposited in fool food by files which have cone corie in contact with the discharges from a typhoid patient and in water from well wellis or streams into which the a bill aill ill discharges have drained trained to prevent typhoid feer fever all discharges from a case of the eliease should be carefully disinfected in accordance with ith the tile liw and the rules of the satte board of health all outhouses should be con strutted ted in euch such a manner la as to strictly exclude cifes and the source of drinking water ater should be rigidly protected from sewage contarina con tamina lion tion dy by those menne means typhoid fever with its it harvest of death may surely be eradicated from front utah plane plans and specifications for want tary dry try earth closets will be furnished free of cost upon ap a 11 cation Hc atlon to the state board of health |