The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-08-30
TIE EPIDEMIC IN NEWARK.
DIR. 7f1US S7ItKS TO II THtT PAS
sac WIJER rs THE Cause.
Nearly All the Other Newark Physician.
Sry the Trouhie Mainly Arose from His
m n ~ the Ola Wells.

Nearly All the Other Newark pbysiclnn.
Sny the Trouhic Mainly Arose from His
Kccomme ndntior- ~, the ola weii-.
DR.. William Titus. Ncwar!'s Health Ofliccr.
who suppressed tho danv reports Of typhoid
fever cases all lac, w,et. thereby adding an
slemr"t vi mystery 10 "a state o, public mind
which was quite uncomfortable enou.h. gave
out tho week figures yesterday.
Their announce men. came u little late. for
the report was no longer news. Newark pco-
pie had read tho figures over their b, eak asis
In the morning.. In fact TIE SrN's report was
moro complete than that which was Officially
made pubic later. Tor II detailed tho ,ases Tor
each day, while Dr. Titu, merely announced
the general result.
The official report announced Tho total number
OF now cases reported during tho week ms Gs.
The week before AZ were reported. Nine cases
OF diphthoria wore reported. seven OF scarlet
fever. and ono OF membranous Group. Tho
total number OF deaths for tho week wore Ill.
making tho worry large annual death rate u
1880 rcr thousand.
Seven persons dicd OF typhoid fever during
tho week. They wsro: David Rabbit, l3 High
street: Anna Geseckc. i2i South Seventh
street: Wernor Hamburger. 81 Kossuth street:
henry r. kerser, 45O South Tenth street:
Amelia Kohn $50 Hunterdon street: Daniel j.
Mott. 9s West street. and Henry Williams. "a
DlNlSlOn pliiC0 HeTo WIS ulso One ueatu
from typhoid malaria. 1t was that OF Agnes
Hicks OF 1j7 Orange street. After the Health
Board Office closel at noon two new typhoid
cases wero received at hospitals. and number
Of others developed in private houses.
1t is unfortunate that the Board OF Health
and the ply sicians OF the city arc not acting in
accord q, this luncture But the controversy
still continues and the criticisms upon tho
Boards actions are pinE nn. DR.. Titus
sticks firmly to his position that the fever Is
duo to Passaic water and not well water He
says also that tho fever doesn't amount to
anything. Those were the words he used to Il
reporter yesterday. The other physicians in
town do not agree with him. lIe seems to be
chiefly concerned. in defending his position rs
to the source OF the fever. lie said yes erday:
No. sF wo af' talk sf to YOU never Van. to
ispor,er Its all t his
isy.r should so tie rer
would mako you, Sick to think OF drinking it:
Tho sewage washes up there from Newark at
the whole river is dead. Water puriiles itself
doesn't run for miles above The Intake. or
course the Passecwater has caused the fever.
"There's been a lot ottalk about those wells.
Now. I'll tell you how thn Nv, whole thing nap,
ssnsah s.rse rhs ssrgS he
handle or the pump and ordered him to put
/ 1T on told hin the water would reI dead II
we'll. unless it was in the middle Of q cesspool;
! was better than auueduct water, What said
enough away from a cess, DOL. and was uncon-
taminated. was better than aIueduet water,
heard DR.. Titus make tho statement and who
Teaillrmed It to Sun reporter yeste' dry
! versal opinion OF physicians in town that the
I! publiention OF tho statement brought on the
! uAl1S aud rink wall in prpfarapc to n Mt
WHICH flowed from the aqueduct;
DO you consider typhoid epidemic in New
may % called epidemic There is an endemic
headednsss and dry tongue But this talk OF
persistenti S misrepresented things and msae
sensation ). out OF 2 very little matter. Tho
An sxsniina alton Of The addresses of patients
s ls9 ShS are e ok Fl i. az 4bs but
xrouna west Of High street: Il is he manu-
faeturnG and Ss district spoken Of II
severe! here. and cessnoois abound: SO do
wells. The fever district covers about one
oft in the other half.
Physoians now nsk why. II the typhoid is
the people in the west half OF the city have the
fever and the people in the east half be free
much as the west half. They affirm hat other
for s sese
, more wells on A., the west side than tho
ESsd BE o II ns ssdr ey
cd in manv other ways than BY drinking wafer.
One can get It directly from. cesspools il they
WesI haii Of 5hc city; They also point to Hare
Passaic water and where there is no typhoid
said hi here o% b. %
why Is 1t not also epidemic In Jersey City.
which Is supplied from The same rverp"
DIR. Titus did rot answer this question. He
inveighed some more against passaic water.
and upon being asked again replied that here
sSsss 'yRis f%s 's ihT
sey City Is worse of than Newark in the mat
Newark intake; and very short distance
oven worse than that Of Newark.
II there Is doubt !, whether lssl Newark drinks
srsss o Gas o sls "H s0G%
sewage Of Paterson and Fassaic, in its drink.
Ing water Psa e lew
dark compound which resemhled ink. and
which deposited after little while quarter
tumbier. This compound had lad the H'e smell II Of I
decayed hsh. and al day long. even after it
strongly.
Jersey City,a in-,ake is on the east side OF
the Iassaic. Newark's is on the west side. 4
physician ironically said Yesterday that IL
must be the habit of typhoid germs in the
Passaic to remain on tho west side OF the
river.
Whatever be the cause of the epidemic in
Nmh Gs hn1, IL B s II Ts
sSss sqia tha s |. might sst so%e lime ,ss 10
The water OF nIl suspected VOLS is up ,ler-
going analysis at present. md II any one Of
them Is found to be contaminated il will be
do the work, and II is necessarily slow. Dr.
Hunt OF the State Board, VII, was here yester-
day has rendered his services. ard that Board
city has no moncy to spend on such analyses.
and OF course We cannot close the wells unless
they are proved deleterious to health"
DR.. Titus did not say why tho Board NJ
Health could not close the wells unless they
proved teeterlops to health: at Least. until
such time rs tEey might be proved to 10
harmless. The auueuuct supplins water
enough for everybody, without The use OF tAs
wells. and. with the lesson OF the ministers
well" before him. it would seem ne pArt Of
proved that each was safe. DR.. Titus did