The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-04-08
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include the location of all the cases OF
typhoid in the city. Inquiry will Their
be made if the cause of the epidemic
can be found in any other source than
the water from the reservoir State
Chemist Smith is also engaged in the
| investigation.
1t was learned last night from a
| trustworthy source that the farmer
whose carelessness caused the infec-
ton was probably more grossly culpa-
Bile than he will at present admit. Ac-
cording to his own testimony, it is stat
| ed, he buried che infected refuse from
| the sick rooms in his house directly on
| the bank of the dry brook which leads
to the Bethany reservoir, and at a
depth of but six inches The farmer
now indicates quite different locality,
and affirms that he buried the excreta
to depth of two feet saying that when
the ground was frozen he used pick to
complete the work.
In the interview last night with DR..
Lindsey questions were asked concern
ing the connection of the pipes of the
Dawson system with the other systems
1t was learned that the water system
of New Haven is uniform, and that the
only agency that keeps the water in a
certain reservoir from spreading over
the town is the water pressure from the
other reservoirs. The effect, therefore,
of drawing off the Lake Dawson supply
would be that the water from the other
reservoirs would press in on all sides
into the infected district, which Is pref
ty definitely located in the Ninth, Tenth
and part of the Second wards. The ac-
ton of the health department in caus-
ing this to be done is a ready and effec-
tive measure, but 1t suggests single
doubt, as follows:
The reservoirs which are now supply
ing New Haven are situated at varying
attitudes and on different sides of the
city. The Whitneyville reservoir is on
the north Saltonstall on the east, Malt
by on the west and Wintergreen north
west The Dawson reservoir is north
west of the city. OF these Lake Win
tergreen is higher than the rest being
used to supply the elevation on Pros
pect street
The question is, since the Dawson wa
tiers are cut off, how the thrush of wa
tiers at varying pressures and from diff
ferent directions might displace the
body of infected water, already in the
pipes, from the western section of the
town. 1t is evident that in the nature
of things there must be a new adjust
ment, since a large resultant pressure
has been removed. Just how far the
infected water might be forced into
neighboring part of the town no one
seems able to determine. DR.. Lindsey
said that Mr. Whitney, president Of the
Water company, was unable to say just
how far this displacement would go, if
at all, but believed it could not extend
to any distance. 1t would be WELL how
ever, for people in all parts of the city
to boil the city water. -Four well-def1n-
ed cases, it is ascertained, have occur
red in a section in the First ward on or
about Crown street, between High and
College
No more cases have been admitted to
the New Haven hospital, and it is re-
ported that all Of the typhoid patients
there are improving rapidly, Grace
hospital has six patients at present.
The water flowing from the Dawson
reservoir into West river has been
swelled by the exceptionally heavy
rains of the past two days so as to flood
its banks and spread over the adjacent
meadows.