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Show Accidents and Disease Costly to Coal Miners WASHINGTON. May 3. Accidents and contagious diseases In the coal mining Industry of L'tah caus- n t - parage monetary loss of 11,0001000 per I year, according to Ir Arthur L Murray, Mur-ray, surgeon of the United States bureau bu-reau of mines, stationed at Salt Like, j In 1 r. Murray s opinion. Utah Is jiot I an exceptional state In this respect, I for in many other coal mining states the conditions are eyualK as serious A serious outbreak of a contagious I disease, especially typhoid fever or smallpox, during a period when the demand for coal Is good may be the means of placing a large proportion of the operating force on a nonproductive nonpro-ductive basis and so cripple a mine as to change It from s profitable undertaking under-taking to one showing a loss, s.iys Dr. Murray In serial 234.1, ' The Eronomic Relation of Accidents and Preventable Diseases to the Coal Mining Industry," Just Issued by the bureau of mines. With typhoid fevSr and s-mallpox the means of prevention are so simple and readll applied that time loss from these diseases can be considered Inexcusable. Vaccination Is a sure preventive against both typhoid fever and smallpox, although Uiif'-rent vaccines vac-cines are used in each disease. Also, there cannot be any considerable number num-ber of typhoid cases without an ascertainable ascer-tainable source of Infection Sources of Infection should and can bo prevented, pre-vented, but If established they should be eliminated after tnc appearance of tho llrst few cases. The experlenco of one ronl mining camp in Utah during the .past fan well illustrates how effective a campaign may be waged against tynhoid t'eor. This camp has a population of about 560 persons. During the period September Sep-tember 7 to November 21, 1921, 37 cases of typhoid fever developed in this camp Practically everv case, he says, pointed to evidence that the water wa-ter supply In the camp was polluted. Earl: in tho outbreak steps had been taken te ln.st.all a filtration and chlort- nation plant to purify the water sup-; sup-; piled the camp. As soon as the plant had been Installed and put In operation opera-tion th outbreak ceased and not another an-other case has since developed. |