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Show TYFHOIO I IN ROY. Report- gathered by the health department de-partment disclose that eighteen caaea of typhoid fever exist In Weber coun iy. Of this number nearly all are in Roy, seven miles to the Bouthwest of U)p city. The cases in Ogden have been brought in from Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming. The spread of typhoid l.as proed puzzling to the state health board which is directly respon Mble for the control of the disease. I'rom the first evidence of the dls'-ato until now, the state authority hua been on the scene with their experts, Including a medical man from the Rockefoller Research The introduction introduc-tion of the disease was traced to a woman from Evanston who had been taken to a local hospital, oporated on for appendicitis, and who had gone to her mother's home In Roy to convalesce. con-valesce. The history of the case shows the woman was suffering of typhoid. The milk was tested, then the water, and both milk and water were found to be free from the germs. Blood tests were made. By elimination it was determined tho disease was being spread from outhouses by flies. Although Al-though warnings had been issued as to the care of outhouses, it became evident tho instructions were being disregarded, so that, after every pre caution had been taken short of armed guards, the fever spread, but drastic action is being employed to force the people tO Dbe) the rules of sanitation ' as prescribed in an epidemic ol typhoid. ty-phoid. Some alarm has been manifested over the possibility of Ogden's milk supply being contaminated by this outbreak. No milk comes Into Ogden trom Roy and up to the present the milk supply of Roy has not been in vaded. The city officials of Ogden, although al-though having no authority outside the city end having no jurisdiction.; have been deeply concerned ovor the reports from Roy and have been lending lend-ing every aslstanc possible to help clear up the infection. The state board of health has bt---:i wide awake to the danger and even the Rockfeller Research has contributed to the work of tracing the source of the disease. Ogden has been nrnr.rkably frei from typhoid, each case, with one exception, ex-ception, having been traced to importations. |