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Show EPIDEMIC IN CHICAGO SCHOOL Over 100 Cases of Typhoid in South Side District as Result of Contaminated City -Well. Chicago, March G School children in the Hyde Park district on the South Side started"' to school this morning with bottles and canteens in their school bags as the result of an effort of city hall officials to stamp out the prevalence of typhoid fever In that section. More than 100 cases of typhoid. 24 of them among school children, have been reported in the district In the last few days as a result of contamination contam-ination of a municipal well. Consequently Conse-quently city water for drinking purposes pur-poses was shut off from public schools 1 nthe district and sixty men set at work today cleaning and draining the pipes in the school buildings. All theatres and places of public gathering ltf Elmhurst, another suburb, sub-urb, are closed because of a number of cases of scarlet fever in that community. com-munity. no |