Show HEALTH COMMITTEE WORKS TO PREVENT TYPHOID FEVER th tho kano county health council through its temporary committee hend it II A ashby has been able to accomplish much lucli tit in improving tile the health conditions condl tlona in kauo katie county through the faithful work of 0 the health nurse tile health committee who visited the homos homes report that people expressed themselves as desirous of bang Inn for typhoid for many years the state board of health has carried on oil an inces campaign for the improvement of culinary water vater supplies by the installation of water ins purification fi facilities and other ot ber measures ures s at the present time there are only a very ery few incorporated towns ta eliat III t have not substituted piped water systems for the former surface wells find and ditches routine laboratory bor atory tests testa and field inspections of the water supplies have been made by the board recent inspections of number of communities by dr J T L jones state epidemiologist and assistant state health commissioner and mr lynn ml mi Tri thatcher atcher sanitary engineer of the hoard board hine have demonstrated that due t to 0 tile present extreme drouth conditions numerous emergency problems affecting the public health have arisen as shown by their report which follows culinary water supplies largely owing to the ansual drouth conditions many culinary water water supplies were found inadequate and becoming progressively more so several ed are entirely without culinary watery making it if necessary to liall i t their heir supply often for long distances and under such I 1 ces cea son some ie are compelled to utilize sources that are highly contaminated and dangerous there are a few instances where entire communities h have aye been forel forced to leave their homes and seek new places of ex existence istance exl stance for their people and hidi animals nals where some sort gort of water wafer Is ia available many mally culinary water supplies were found exposed to dangerous contamination largely resulting from tile thu following circumstances 1 attoe the necessity of having to ii t not leen been in III uso use or else abandoned in ill the past as unsafe 2 in some instances deteriorated leaking pipes As a result of the greatly diminished flow from these pipes the internal pressure is so reduced as to permit contamination from the outside 3 accumulation and concentration of animal and human wastes along stream beds banks cf streams ravines etc duo due to in fit 1 sufficient arter water for dilution unit und flushing I 1 while some of the supplies subject to the above adverse conditions tire are being adequately treated thus rendering them sate safe from the standpoint tand point of causing germ borne diseases others are being inadequately treated or receiving no treat ment meat at all laboratory tests show a high percentage of the alie latter to be contaminated with animal and human wastes thus carrying the potentiality of causing outbreaks of typhoid fever dysentery and other filth borne diseases due to the il drouth routh many culinary water supplies that have tested 0 k other years are showing contamination at tills this time reports received by the state board of health indicate that the conditions above described are general and there Is no question as aa to i tile the necessity for the adoption of fic ac I 1 live men measures to combat the dang gers to the public health the disposal to sewage is IA always as a pro and Is aggravated this year because of the drouth alt atlon nation for example the necessity of using unprotected water supplies tor for culinary purposes inadequate water for it ution and flushing ot of streams gullies guilles etc into which sewage 13 19 discharged or finds its way also tile lie fly yul sance this season la is more menacing due to tile the mild of insect life this necessitates greater precautions for uio the sanitation tation of privies tho the conditions described are an anun un questioned menace to the public health especially espectO lly as relates to ty phobia fever thus far three deaths from ty fever have been reported in the state all of them hem having oc cured in fit one section of a country suntry elierd serious arouth conditions have been specially in evl evidence dene and the local authorities failed to provide fol inoculations contrary to the urgent advice or of the state hoard board of health only three deaths from typhoid occurred in th eState in 1933 the death rate from the disease in utah lias has shown a remarkable decrease in recent years yeara having been reduced from per population prior to 1910 lo 10 per lit ill 1933 utah should lie be proud of this record it la Is no mero accident but an ail outstanding accomplishment of public I 1 health and preventive medicine recognized liy by the entire country and realized only through the exercise of the roost most diligent and painstaking efforts in the application lo 10 of scientific p procedures in procuring pro r safe water safe food safe disposal of wastes waster combating the fly and other nuisances and in carrying out immunization programs |