Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-05-16
A FEVER SW;EPT STATE
Typhoid Fever Is Raging In
 Connecticut.
ALMOST A PANIC IN STAMFORD.

The Epidemic Traced to the Sale of Im- pure Milk Physicians and Nurses sum moncd From Other Places Action of the state Hoard oC Health.
 NEW HAVEN, May 16.--ConncctiCut is now suffering from a terrible visitation of typhoid foVer. Stamford and New Milford are the places where the epidemic has ragged most severely. Both arc now passing through the crisis of tho scOurge, and fatal results havo accompanied its spread In both instances. The medical records of tsro stato do not show an epidemic equal in extent to that at stamford
 It began thrvo weeks ago with a score of cases in various parts of tho city and spread rapidly. At first physicians wcro unable tu explain il, but it was soon traced to the milk fi"m a farmer named Black ham. UnlImittont attention from tho medical authorities has thus far proved unsuccessful i'll checking the disease. and today the record of the ravaGCs of the dis ease is: The total number of cases sinco the disease began. 327 number of deaths, .. All the deaths and most of tho cases re- ported can be directly traced to the infect cal milk supply. The actual situation in Stamford is critical and pathetic. Many | of the reSden.: of tho city have left tho place ill torrOr.
 | The Hospitals Are ONerrun.
 Many persons have boycuttod all milk dealers, and many havo volunteered as | nurses till tho plague has vanished Whole families are down with the disease and l moro deaths arc inevitable The emergency hospital of stamford. with its limited ac- | Commudnt ions, was fillud two weeks ago. and the medical authorities were forced to l purchase another building for hospital | purposes till the numl er of patients de- l Creases.
 Although as few patients as possible are taken to thosc two hospitals both arc run | ming oVr", and many patients have been sent to other temporary hospitals. The services uf extra physicians and nurses have been imperative. and they have been summoned in large numbers from New York. New Haven, Bridgeport and other | places
 Fifty nurses are in Stamford and nearly as many physicians. An emergency fund, started immediately after the inception Oi tho epidemic. has now increased to $3, DOC and is swelling rapidly. Charitable soci cities are finding n wido field for their labors l The two latest deaths, which occurred late yesterday afternoon, are Charles Frey, 0 baker who sold milk for Blackham. ant Timothy lIannrahan, son of Dennis lIann rahan. said to have been n customer o Backham. Frey's placo has hecn bOycot ted for a week. He has five children crit icaly i'll with the diseaso.
 Charles F. Wells one uf tho most prom inent young men in New Milford, died O the disease yesterday. He was about 3, years old, and was proprietor of the Nov Milford pottery works.
 Board of Health Acts.
 Last night tho state board of health is sued bulletin, which reads as follows:
 Tho most severe epidemic of typhoit fever of which there is any record in Con nCctiCut is now in prNgresS in stamford Thus far more than 200 cases haVo oC cured in the town of Is. 0OO inhabitants Careful investigation of its origin is nov being madc and in duo timo will be put lishcd
 Tho evidence at present seems to h conclusive that the diseasr spread from ill fectcd milk and that the milk became ir tcctod y washing the can from n highl polluted well How tho ,pcc,al infoctio got into the well has not bron dotnitcl dotCrm:uvd hut the Clusc proximity of tw vaults Is suggestive. There could not bo more convincing illustration of the in purtance of somo authoritative supervisio of the ways and methods c; milk produt ton for pUb.ic use.
 As long ago as 1881 ;U typhoid epidemic from infected milk had been traced in Eng land, and now all English dnirics arc sul jeCt, in a sanitary srnSc, 10 health Otliccr Another typhoid epidemic appeared New Milford in tho latter part Uf Apri These cases wero also all among the GU tOmers Of single milk supply.