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Show NATURAL ICE AND TYPHOID FEVER I i New York. Nov. IS Tbc National ice association of America, which in boldlog Its annual session here today, Is couriering the relation of natural 1 ice to contagious dUettae. Dr. Hlb-b-rt W. Hill, chief of the bureau ef epidemiology of the Minnesota State Hoard of Health, in an address on this tubject, declared that ho had lound, at'er long Investigation, ihnt ice was ! a factor In the transmit S'.on of ty- ' I hold germs. j "It has been estimated, lie tiaid." "that 250.0UO people suffer from typhoid ty-phoid fever in the United States ev- I er year. For the last twenty years, ' during which Huffklent ncteiition has been paid to 'typhoid lever to ellct th.j source of outbreaks, five million people peo-ple have suffered. Fron this nuni-icr nuni-icr 1-120" of 1 per cent have been! attributed to natural Ice. "Ice was taken In one Instance from ! a river actually producing typhoid at the time to the extent of seven per cent of the community, yet the Ice from that river did not produce a single sin-gle case and this hlBtoiy was re- I pcuted year after year. Natural Ice, 1 because of its great powcra of purl- J fleatlou. might be taken from tho ; jW.iter sources that produce typhoid I I lever, yet could not be held responsible for over 1.120" of 1 per cent of the lo'al water born typhoid. " j |