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Show TYPHOID IN SAUNA. Epidemic Traced to Sallna Canyon-Conflict Canyon-Conflict of local Authorities Holds Up Sanitary Measure. An extensive correspondence has been carried on between Dr Ilealt presl-dent presl-dent of the btate Hoard of Health and the authorities at Saliha, tjcticr e.oun-t. e.oun-t. bovcral weeks ago the people of Sallm began to come down with typhoid fever Case after case developed devel-oped and u verj large per cent of the lopulatlon lontrncted the disease tvhon the epidemic was teported lo the State boird the suspicions of that bod) were dliected toward the water supplj. Dr Ucatty sent Instructions lo the local health otllcer Instructing Mm or her, as It Is In thin (.ate, to urge the cltltcns to boll thilr drinking water It was harncil that the town Is sup Piled parti from ditches and surraee wells A bootle If unlet from one nf the wells was iccclved by the Hoard of Health and submitted to city Chemist Hanns for nnaljsls Ho ikmonMintcd that It wus full of Uphold germs Notwithstanding; thc ailtlie of Ihe boird the -pldemlc still tnntlnued and oven the lady cinder who Is health mil-cer mil-cer of the town became a vlitlm of tsphold Thc source of Infection was traced to Sallna taiivon where a gang of rallroid construction men were camped during the summer Dr Ilenttj wrote to tho inunly authoiltles urging them lo have the canton (loaned up Since then a conlllct of nuthoriti has nrlsen between the county board and thc town olllclals and In consequence Ihe sanitary measure has been neg lected until a day or two ago when Ihe lounti ofllelils began to clean up It Is estimated that for J15 000 nrst-closa nrst-closa water sjstcm can be established Tphold Is more or less prevalent throughout the State all the time and It can almost Invarlabl) be traced to Impurity of the water suppl), hence the State health boird Is constantly calling upon the town city and countj officials to protect the streams and wells from contamination. Polling It Is said, alwavs kills all germ life In thc water, but even when this precaution Is taken disease may be contracted by washing the person or vegetables In the unsterlllzed fluid |