The San Francisco call., 1898-05-12
SACRAMENTO
 IS AROUSED Sees the Dang CTS Lurk- inq in Sewage-Tainted
 Water. Evening Bee Warns the People Against a Spread of
 Fever. Arrest of Folsoraa's Warden Delayed Through an Officials Ab-
 senco.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SACRAMENTO, May 1.-The con- tinued absence of the District Attorney from the city has delayed the issuance of a warrant for the arrest of Warden Aull of Folsom prison, but in the meantime the agitation of the sewage problem grows, and it will certainly be but few days before relief will come in one way or another.
 Dr. Nichols who has lived in Sacra- mento many years and is at present secretary of the local Board of Health, is in perfect accord with the general sentiment which favors immediate steps in the direction of protecting the people from the practices now Tn vogue at the prison. He favors the proposl- tion to compel the authorities at the prison to cease dumping their sewage into the American River.
 Warden Aull has already estimated the expense of constructing a sewage nIant at Folsom. and in estimating the cost in his report to the Governor, al- ready published in The Call, he placed the figure at $15, ,000
 Should the Board of Prison Direct ors make the request the State Board of Examiners could allow a dehc1ency, and the work of construction could De commenced and finished in very short time.
 The warning first given by The Call has thoroughly awakened the people Of Sacramento to the danger which threatens them. To-night's Bee came out in the following flaming headlines: TYPHOID STILL HOLDS ITS OWN. Boil Your Drinking Water, Citizens.
 That Is the Surest Way to
 Escape Infection.
 Following this heading was the fol- lowing interview with one or Sacra- mentos most prominent physicians, G. c. Simmons:
 strongly said pr. Simmons. ''the ne cessity of boiling every drop or tnelr drinking water. l don't care what brand of a filter is used in home, even the filtered water must be boiled if 1t is de- sired to escape the danger of infection Several of my patients have told me that they used no other water than that Whlcn came through filters which were peneVeo to remove all germs.
 'I see that the Board of Education Is putting filters in the public schools Of the city That is all right. so far as making the water clear is concerned; but if they think they are thereby offering the pupils perfectly pure water they are mistaken. Every drop of water given to school chii- dren to drink should first be boiled, no matter if 1t is proposed to filter 1t or not. I repeat what I said a few weeks ago. our supply pipe should be at once eXtend- ed above the mouth of the American River. This would at least insure us against the impurities which are con- stantly being brought Into our river from Folsom by means of the American.
 Those people who object to any out side ownership of our water works cer- tafnly should not find objection to any such arrangement as l suggest, for 1t would not involve the slightest change in the present system of city ownership. !"
 pr. Simmons was asked if 1t were not possible that many of the cases thought to be typhoid fever might not in fact be a form of malariouS fever
 ''The cases" said Dr. Simmons, "are as close to the typhoid type as we have in this section. We seldom have the true form of typhoid fever as it is known in the East where there are spots on the flesh and other symptoms not apparent here Our typhoid has a mixture of ma- laria in it"
 The Bees comment on the situation is as follows:
 It is fact that typhoid now exists in this city to an extent iustifying the most careful measures on the part of house. holders to prevent its introduction into their homes. The Bee has no desire what ever to alarm the people when it calls attention to the prevalence of this dis ease In fact, 1t is beyond the power of a newspaper to create alarm in the pre- misses, for the fact that there are very many typhoid fever cases in this city is known by the people themselves as thor