Show t. I UI I Y 1 UTAH THURSDAY y JUI JUNE jE 10 1909 W ISSUED TO SALT LAKE PEOPLE Health Commissioner Urges Immediate Action if f Typhoid Ty- Ty Typhoid Epidemic emic Is to toBe toBe Be Prevented Unless the proper sanitary precautions are taken immediately immediately imme imme- on a large scale this city is in danger of suffering a typhoid epidemic this summer Dr Franklin H. H Raley Ealey Assistant City Health Commis Commis- While S hiie Dr M. M R. R Stewart city health commissioner Is blithely taking an extended ex ex- ex- ex tended vacation on out of ot town his confreres confreres con con- freres on the board of ot health have taken temporary charge of his official duties and arc are doln doing their best to attend attend at at- at tend to his work and anti their own ova private practice at time the same santo time although such loathsome Con contagious L. and Infectious infectious diseases as ns smallpox and scarlet fever are raging in epidemics throughout through through- out Salt Lake Drs Dra Franklin I IL H. Raloy and S. S G G. Paul assistant health commissioners have practically taken the work of ot the time board of health in hand hund In Dr Stow Stow- arts art's absence and are aro trying to stem the LJ tide e of dangerous elous maladies which have swept the ell city But nut within time the last week a new phase has been ben added to time the situation which threatens to prove even en a worse scourge than the time scarlet fever and smallpox epidemics s. s Time Tho mem members els el's of or ti the tho board of health are aroused by tho the new dangers which lurk In the germ breeding waste waters left In tho time western part of Salt Lake b by the ebbing flood lood waters Dr Hale Ualey coincides with Dr Pauls Paul's expressed belief that time the stagnant pools pOole in tI t themselves mire are harmless being natural septic tanks which will the de- typhoid t l hold and other dangerous bac- bac by exposure to lu th the sun and air But Dr Hale Haley yesterday afternoon Is Issued Is- Is sued u u. tern stern w warning to the tho people of Salt Luke Lake und amid other cities which ha e been affected b by the recent lecent floods He said In part pan The health authorities are pru practically in the tho face of or the lie Indifference and und apathy displayed by hy maul many persons In regard to urgent sanitary Instructions and und In some quarters the board of or health meets with actual criminal opposition MiaMi lIke The people of or Salt 1 Lake ak mu must t wako vake to the time realization that a I positive dunKer duner dun dun- Ker ter er threatens them and their children must 1 bo bu mailo to understand that without fro n era I co operation lJ by time the limo tho Lies emma can d du but t I. 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Compel U tl tho lOp to with official orders order but ut wo We do each cia pct on to to to-Oo to his part In following out ordinary rule lulee ot of sanitation ant and cleanliness Practically all 1111 of at the prevalent duo ulie nrc Hrc filth diseases and t typhoid is particularly particular ly iy DO so- rheM bad In n 1111 lie llo health are nearly always directly traceable to filth filth In some nomo form torm or 01 an an- an ot other As a ia far as ih time the effects t of or the tIme the late late I floods flood jire Jue tre concerned 1 frankly believe bellevo that pools of or stagnant water will In themselves do little harm Un Under or conditions a. a stagnant Is a aseptic aseptic septic tunk Whatever algae are contained con In such waste water vator are aro not only harmless harmle s but arc are even beneficial a agents as the they devour the time dangerous organisms micro which ma may Infest the pools True these pools poola may breed myriads of or mosquitoes but the tho mosquito un tinder or present local conditions is merely an un annoyance and not a positive menace to Salt Lake residents The mosquito Is dangerous dans-crous as uc a carrier of typhoid yellow ellow fever malaria and kindred red bac- bac but hut fortunately none nono of at these exists around here There have boon been boona boena a fow few Isolated cases casos of or malaria more moro or less serious In tho the vicinity of ot Galfield Gar Gar- Garfield field but the tho mosquito Is short lived a and a poor Joor traveler tra besides so 50 that danger of Infection from that luart l' l lIs lis Is practically nil However unless the proper sanitary taken on ona ona ona precautions arc Immediately a large scale thin this city is in dan danger or of or suffering a a. typhoid epidemic this sum sum- mel mer Althou Although h the time pools of or stagnant water on time tho West Vest Side do not carry dangerous bacteria at pr present It Is certain cor- cor alit tain that the Limo great eat quantities of or manure manuro and taste vaste matter which have been heen used to dam mIam tho ho breaks made by the tile floods will till develop Into Ideal breeding places i for tOI flies files just as noon Moon as us the tile hot weather recurs Also Aho the he floods washed down many carcasses of or animals und rotting rolling ve vegetable lo matter malter and these too will fertile fly producers An Atm important matter Is time tho care and disposal of or J garbage t lIvery housewife should bo be cUI careful ful to keep keell the time garbage alha e can well covered so that no flies files rIl c can u Jet got in to lo lay their eggs It Is bt better tt r still sUB to not only keep k garbage arba can came covered cosMy but to also scatter kerosene Iliac or ashes R oV over I lb Ii garbage gar gal 1 huge bage thus killing fly larvae All AlI collections col coi of or filth that thal mt might ht be beoni breeding places pla-es for flies flics should sho bo be destro de- de ed ed pd and the tho backyards alleys alleR hidden hilen corners where dirt accumulates ho cleaned and kept clean Time The and excluding excluding ordinary agents Rs for tor killing In ing flies files from Crom the tho house such as nR and sticky fly paper screens t. wire h fans fails et el cetera cetela should be bP u used ed for their cot cost costis co cotts t Is ts comparatively slight aught and thoy they save nave man ninny many lives In th tho aggregate I would particularly warn varn the HIP residents real resi dents on the tho West Went Side where I have ha seen excrement floating In trio tho seepage e and anti flood waters it hUll hail been washed out of or the lIU lying low outhouses outhouse If It such excrement carries typhoid bac- bac cHII tho the flies files will quickly Realtor the tho disease an and thus In a a. short time man many Innocent persons whose homes homeR might he be far removed from from th the source of In Infection Infection In- In will suffer from the tho dread rover everTo ever To conclude the tho health authorities co operation of must have Itale the tho constant tho time people In fighting these epidemics of or filth diseases |