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Show oo FRED AM ON ROAD TO RECOVERY AFTER SEVERE ATTACK Malaria, tuberculosis and Bright's disease were some of the numerous ailments Fred G. Taylor, secretary of the Amalgamated Sugar company, was given treatment for on the voyage voy-age from Panama to Now Orleans before be-fore U was discovered that what he really 'was suffering of was typhoid fever, according to a letter just received re-ceived from Mrs. Taylor by a friend In Ogden. That Mr. Taylor did not succumb to the effects of the inefn-clent inefn-clent medical treatment he received berore reaching Now Orleans was a miracle, according to his wife. Even now he Is not out of danger. Mrs. Taylor's letter states that on her arrival in New Orleans she found her husband very, very 111. "Ho bad been ill for three weeks," she writes, "and they almost killed him coming over on the boat, doctoring him for malaria, tuberculosis and Bright's disease dis-ease when he had typhoid fever." Telling of Mr. Taylor's treatment in Now Orleans, she writes: "Wo were fortunate in securing tho services of the best physicians and nurses and they are simply tireless in their efforts to do everything they can. Saturday afternoon he had a hard chill and then his temperature went to 101, and in the night he had i collapse. "Tho physicians say he is not having hav-ing an unusually hard fever but he was so weak before they got him that lie Is suffering doubly. I never saw myone suffer so in my life, but I feel tie will get well, and I am sure he appreciates ap-preciates all the kind wishes of his Utah friends. "We talk but very little he is so weak. I am sure he feels better since I came ind, while no messages are read to him, I tell him his friends are all wishing for hiB speedy recov- ' ery- "Tell all at home we are doing everything we can for him and hope to bring a very thin, very pale, but smiling Fred back to you all." Mr. Taylor Is at the Touro infirmary In New Orleans. How long It will be before he will bo strong enough to leave there for Ogden cannot at present pres-ent be foretold. |