The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-09-07
TYPHOID FEVER.

THE DREADED MALADY INTRODUCED INTO
MoNTCLAiR, N. j., BY IMPURE MILK-sEv-
ERAL DEATHS AND NUMBER OF PERSONS
STILL SUFFERING FROM TIE FELL DIsEAsE-
LOOSE SANITARY REGULATIONS.
The beautiful village OF MontcIAir, virtually gar
den spot 10 New jersey lying at the loot OF he Orange
Mountains and CONTAINING hardly thousand inhab
rants has narrowly esc1pod. or rather is just now
ESCAPING the OF thriving places In tho MIS-
sissippi Valley. Dirt and ignorance have had
as fearful consequences IN Montcair where
SO many of New York's business nea re-
side, in any OF the Southern Hities,
where lack of sanitary regulations has brought on
tho dreadful plague But, with that jealousy which
local pridc engonders tho fact has been kept exceed
ngly quiet that this charming village has during the
present summer. been visited by the worst type OF
typhoid fever The last death on Wednesday brought
the fact more into noiorsty, and upon tho HERALD
reporter visiting the place yesterday. the startling
fact was at brought 10 his attention that filth and
absence Of sanitary measures mad slowly but steadily
during the latter DAYS Of July and during the month
OF August engendered the disease until no less than
sixteen persons had boon prostraed three iouF of
whom are now dead and buried
IMPURE MILK.
All Of this has boon traced directly to one cause
the use Of impure milE-not milk from . diseased
cow, as was generally supposed at FIRST, but milk
which had peen kept Tor sale In house where dirt,
Al,h and disease already abounded The milk, abb
sorbng the horrid gases OF the domicie of tho sck
was purchased and used by people, who, from
that cause alone, became siok and underwent the
papgs OF typhoid fever Fortunately the little village
with it's few inhabtants. coutains two physicians
Drs Love and Piukham--wbo at once wen, the
bottom OF the disease. grappled with IT. Investigated
IT, case after case. until tnsy finally stamped out abe
source.
THE HISTORY OF TEE DISEASE.
From Dr. Love the HERALD reporter obtained the
history OF the disease as foliows:"In the month OF
July" no said, 1.-TWO children Of Mr.. kunn's family
wore SICK tad typhoid. the other had intermit.
tent lever Mr. Mum kept number OF cows and
sold milk 10 several families in Montclar. did not
think much of u ct Arst, but after u short while
another case appeared 10 the ncighborhood,
then another, thcn agaiu another, until tho idea
struck mo that all these people purchased milk from
Mum. COW had died also on the grounds, and the
rumor was that the bad milk camo from that COW !;
but subsequent Investigation proved this 10 DO totally
incorrect. made Thorough survey OF the premises
frst SO az get at the origin OF the childrens dis
ease; then found that the house In which the Mum
family lived had cellar under one part OF the house
and none under the other Az The door there was
wall OF bad water, while there drainage
whatever. OF course the children became SICK, but
the FOYER poison from the TWO chlidren, which was
contracted from foul water aud Q bad cellar, soon
sprsad through the house and the various vessels
10 tho house became injected with H. rhe milk
kept ON sale Of soon absorbed the great part
oil that lover poison, as milk Is known by expert
eucs 10 be great absorbent OF posons. l At oncc
stopped the sale OF more muk. and had the
par,es moved out OF the house. Or. Pinkham and
myseli have alone treated thirteen cases. In orr-
emit families which wo traced directly TO tho poisoued
mix. Oh these cases one child died nrst then a
nf Mr. In ~
brooklyn after a few days. bat has since died
| Alter we got through with the Mum family
| four other families were cared for by u.s. most OF
Of MI Hutchinson aged nino years, died day before
ycs erday Tnerc are other cases OF lover here now
cause mas been entirely cradicaicd. OF course tho
| humid atmosphere docs not help us. and causes
| always considerable sickness. | heard Of one or
two cases up the mountsins, but The scare, II there
| was any, IS all now. the Mum family was tho
worst--iathor, mother, two chdsca and tho sister,
Of tbs bal milk, aud whilc they suffering other
cases different families broko ous ono alter an
| swrIL AND FILTH IN A CELLAR
! Tho reporter had interviews with several other
persons IN Moptclar, and though all agree that the
milk theory correct one, no tar as relates TO
tho Of the other aniiiss they state omphat
ically thai the origin OF the disease al arst was
sho cellar. man named Carson, emf loyed
/
swIII, tho odors OF which ovsrpowerea him. How
long IL mad kept there nobody Know, and that
I the cause OF the Mum chiidrcn's sickness Mr..
Wright, proprietor OF tho only hotel In the place,
said:-.T had tho optre place disnfccted alter The
Musp family left u, yet the hutchinson fam ly,
who live opposite 10 Park street. lost their cnud by
the disease on Wednesday Again, though the doctor .
theory about Tho poisoned milk may % rign'. aud
though neury all the people III Montcldr have stopped
| talking milk from Num-. have IN TINS Motel con
tnued buy milk from MIN ever since nave used u,
| and not n single Of sickness has taken place.
| 10
may call II, tell you IL vs. tagous, fearfuy con-
tagous. Look at the case Of Miss NUM- She ala not
| come here to nurse the ioiks until they had been
| moved 10 thus new house She never was In inc Old
house, and yet she went home TO brooklyn sick and
died thorc She caught tho disease, Of course, not
IRON the house, but IRON the family sue was nursing.
| OTHER cAsEs CAUSED ny coyrAGIoN.
| Mr.. BALDWIN, druggist, stated that friend OIL
| Miss Mum, who had previously come on from Cats
| Kill, suffering from the fever, though con-
| valsscent A physician woo happened to be In the
drug store At The time the reporter there said
asserted, however, that there was ne desire Ia
keep matters quot the fever scare had ofton been
talked about during the past low weeks bot Inc doc
tors we're satisfied that they had mastered the dis
| ease.
| Station Agent Carroll Acknowledged that. az q mat
ter OF course, the OF the place dd
10 say much about II. but there had been preat dsa
| Of fever all around The mountains He had resided
i've years In tcair, had known lever cases 90 b
brought there from Bloomfield and other places, but
had never known IL TO originate there and take such
| Arm hold as this year
clair revealed the tact that no further apprchensons
| were entertained TO the spread oil the disease
though quito number arc yot suffering aud can only
| be cousidered as In a oonvaiescent state
RARUS AND HOPEFUL.
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