The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-04
An Epidem ic of the Disease Last
Month.
THIRTY-ONE CHILDREN DIE
HOT WEATHER AND POOR WATER
THE CAUSES.
This MaIady is Now on the Waue,
and Typhoid Fever Gases Are be-
coming Numerous-The Health
Officials Observation-Disclosures Re-
port For August.

The report of The health department
for the last month shows that cholera
infantum has played sad havoc among
the baby population of the city. No
less than thiI7ty-one deaths from this
cause alone were reported, or nearly
so per cent of the total death rate for
tine month. The malady ragged at its
height about the middle of the month,
since which time it has been somewhat
on the decrease
The health authorities ascribe the
cause TO the hot weather and poor
water. With the cooler nights now
coming on this terror TO babyhood will
vanish One OF tine great obstacles, too,
to Kidding the community of such a
nalady is the apparent carelessness
of parents in looking after the children.
The health commissioner says if moth
ers would only observe a few hygienic
rules a contraction of THE ailment could,
in the ajorlty OF instances, be avoided.
The sanitary condition of some parts
of the city needs looking after. Typhoid
fever now seems to have made ITS APP
peaTance in earnest and the causes are
directly traceable to filthy streets and
stagnant pools of water. The lower
and western portions of the city where
the bitches are in bad shape and the
streets never looked after has the great
est number of the contagion and the
cause is obvious.
One case directly in point is that Of a
sltagnam0 pool covering nearly an en-
tire block between Fifth and Sixth
South on Sixth West. The heavy rains
of late have filled up the low places with
water, for which there is no outlet. The
street is nothing but a staSnant pool OF
muddy water from which odors arise
strong enough to paradyze any nosl-r4L
Three cases of typhoid fever have
broken out in that immediate ylcirlhy
and the health commissioner GtateS they
are due 10 no other causes THAN the
uncleanlineSs of the place.
The health officials, in company with
members OF the sanitary conmiutee,
visited the place yesterday and decided
that something must be done at once.
Complaints have poured in upon the
health department., but 1T is powerlees
TO do anything under existing cOndl-
tons. The street ought to have the att
tention of the street department., and
the owners of the vacant block be
made TO remedy the evil. The SAM
taly committee of the council may be
reused TO action. The only difficulty
is that most Of the members of ths
council prefer wagging their tongues
to doing active work when occasion
requires it.
The health departments statistical
report fo- the month of August was Is
sued yesterday The total number of
deaths during the month was seventy
one, as compared with forty-one Tor
August last year. The death rate per
Thousand was 12.17 against 1902 for the
same period in 1895.
The number of deaths from each
cause are classified as follows:
Zymotic-Cnolera infantum. 81; sep
tic peritonitis, l; typhoid fever, l;
whooping cough, g.
Observation-Disclosures, 1.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., /; cancer of
liver, 1; Jencer ornentunl, /; cancer, l;
intestinal tuberculosis, l; marasmus. /;
phthisis pllmonalis, 4; rheumatism, 1.
Nervous-Acute meningitis, /; apo
plexy, 1.
Observation-Disclosures of the heart. 1;
heart, valvular disease, l.
Respiratory-Pu Pulmonary oedeGna. l.
Digestive Cholera morbus, l; diar-
rhoea, chronic, l; entera colitis, 1.
Genito urinaIy-Brights disease, 4;
diabeGic mellitus, l.
mentory-Eczema capil11s, l.
Accident-Crushed by railway cars, 1;
crushed between cars. /; electrical
shock, l.
other causes-Old age, 5; surgical OPP
GRAFTON, l.
OF the deaths, thirty-nine were males,
thirty two females, sixteen married,
six widows, two widowers and forty
seven single.
The number of births reported dur
ing the month was las, Of which sixty
were males.
There were eleven cases of premature
and still-born not included in the fore
going figures.
Whooping cough seems to be con-
fined chiefly to the Sixteenth ward,
where seventeen cases are reported. In
the Seventeenth there are two cases,
same in the Eleventh, while only one
case was reported from the First ward,
making in all twenty-five whoopiug
cough cases in the city.
Eleven cases OF scarlet fever were re-
ported, divided among the ecclesiastical
wards as follows: First ward, 2;
Seventh, l; Ninth, l; Fourteenth, l;
Seventeenth, L; Nineteenth, 2; Twen-
tieEh, l.
The nine cases of typhoid fever re
ported are divided among the wards as
follows: One in the First, four in the
Sixth, one in the Ninth, one in the
Twelfth and two in the Seventh.
The amount OF food condemned was
as follows: Fish, go pounds; fruit, H.,
SOS pounds; poultry, 127 pounds; vege-
tables 1020 pounds; eggs, 49, cases;
butter, pounds. Eight samples OF
milk were anaylzed.
The amount of matter burned at the
crematory is reported as follows: Car
bage, 304 loads; hide clippings, 20 loads;
vegetables, 1880 pounds; swill, 81 900
pounds; condemned furniture, 1 load;
fish, $3.50 pounds; fruit, 1890 pounds;
eggs, 40 cases; meats, 4,300 pounds;
sparrow eggs and heads, 6 cases; COWS,
Z; calves, 2; cats, 1; dogs, II; horses, 13.
TNnhaa estimated cubic wards. 11SS.