Show advertisement HEALTH conditions CONDITION S IN ROOSEVELT an interesting article stating the facts concerning typhoid fever in this section of the county the townsite of roosevelt has a perfect drainage system which assists materially to make the place clean and healthful the settled part of the city is on a table land or mesa which rises abruptly on all sides the soil is somewhat sandy on the surface and with cobble rock which makes a filter for the water that falls upon the town within a few hours after the harast rain storms the streets are practically free from mud the water that has not nort drained into the dry gulch at the east cast foot of the bench has bas found its way into t the he porous soil A sewer system could be very cheaply and cuic kly installed to carry the waste of the townsite either to the east north or ol south A continuous layer of solid sandstone underlies the entire efi tire bench at a depth of sixteen feet and is visible oh every side where the table land breaker off into the lowlands surrounding the town this natural foundation will furnish an absolutely secure base to place large buildings upon and there need be no fear of the walls cracking or of an alkali swamp coming up to sink the structures that may be erected in the future As to the actual number of typhoid cypho I 1 d cases here the writer has received the figures from dr browning the city physician and are as follas total number of typhoid cases 14 number contracted in roosevelt 10 number contracted in other places and have come here for treatment 4 typhoid fever one of the common diseases in america can eb contracted at any place where the conditions are favorable our publicity friends however would give out the idea that this is about the only place at least in duchesne county where typhoid can be taken into the system flies are the most common carters carlers of the germs and when the disease gets started these pests are the means of seal scattering lter the disease into homes situated abed in the near neighborhood just as soon as people learn leam to dest destroy roythe the flies and keep their premises clean and free fly breeding places will typhoid and all other diseases materially decrease and the general health of the people improve roosevelt believes in keeping clean it believes in moral samUL sanitation tion and public sanitation clean ii up days have been held at various times this summer and the town council together with the citizens are making every effort to keep the town clean and as free from flies as possible ps sible this season there has been more than a thousand trees planted in roosevelt and the public is taught taugh tto to take an interest in the general appearance of the place let let our friends who are hollering about sican sickness ess and look first at home a and nd see it if they can improve upon roose belts sanitation moral sanitation 1 included among the many m a ny of the f falsehoods 1 ise reported and circulated by certain politicians in their fruitless fight against roosevelt I for the county seat is one to the i effect that the town is unfit for human habitation because of the pre valance of disease especially typhoid fever they say that our hospital is full of bf typhoid patients all of the time it is 19 true that roosevelt has a first class hospital well equipped and doing a first class business and i what city or town should not be troied that it has an institution ti on for the proper anim and treatment of the sick in this re slept we are not bellind behind the older towns owns and cities of the state the location of the hospital at roosevelt only shows the good wanted to be as near the center judgment of its founders they of population as possible po sible they wanted to locate in that place which is most easily accessible 0 the most people and without hesitation chose roosevelt as the common center of the developed part of the former reservation roosevelt is the only town in duchesne county that has a water works system I 1 suppose that is the reason that jealous politicians have said that our water was impure the citizens of the community went into the matter cooperatively and stored the waters of the uin tah river in a large reservoir at the highest pint on the bench in the west part of town from which point the water is conveyed through the streets in wooden ipes while a part of the canal which is to bring the water free from any seepage or drainage direct from the river will not be completed until this fall the water at present is pure and wholesome A complete analysis of the water the reservoir and pipe line has been recently made by the state chemist and the water found to be absolutely free from disease producing organisms and particularly ticul arly free from typhoid baccilli as the analysis was made with particular precaution detect typhoid germs |