The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-04-05
ALL DANGER OF INFECTION
FROM TYPHOID FEVER CUT OFF AT
ITS SOURCE

| Officer Wright-Epldem.c Now Num-
! bers Between Twenty and Thirty
| Gases-sevcraI More CIassed as Sus-
| poets.
Simultaneous with statistics gathered
last night from over a dozen physicians
that there have appeared between
twenty and thirty verified cases of ty-
phoid fever in this city within the last
three days came the following state
ment from Health Officer Wright: Il
have located the source of the typhoid
infection and can assure the public that
there is no more danger of infection
from that source" When asked If the
epidemic had been caused by the recent
rains which have filled the lakes with
surface water, DR.. Wright said. The
Water company is not to blame. I can
only say that there Is no more danger
Although the Water company has
flushed the water pipes, the health Off
Ger still deems it advisable that the city
water be boiled for few days before
being used for drinking purposes.
Health officer Wright, who was the
first to sound the warning Wednesday
night at the meeting of the New 1a-
ven Medical association that a serious
epidemic of typhoid was coming, was
occupied most commercially in his In
vestigation which consumed all of yes
terday afternoon and evening, and as
fesult of his efforts was able last night
to make the above statement that all
danger of future infection Is past.
In addition to the score or more of
cases that have been fully diagnosed as
typhoid there are quite number of
cases that are listed as suspects. DR..
Archibald Mcneil the bacteriologist for
the city board of health, has, 1t Is esti-
mated, from fourteen to seventeen
doubtful cases that were turned over to
him yesterday and will be reported
to him to-day to be tested. Sew
eral of these cases are not fully devel- |
oped yet, but the physicians are satis-
fed that they are typhoid fever. Seven
of the cases are reported by DR.. Will |
liam p. Baldwin who is already treat |
ing three that have been verified, and |
DIR. Arthur S. Cheney will present to-
day for blood analysis three or four |
suspected cases. DIR. Charles w. Hol- !
brook, of East Haven, has one case.
Dr. Wright said that no test of the |
city water has been taken by the board
Of health, and will not be; and since 1t |
was learned yesterday that DIR. Smith, /
the state chemist, was making tests of
of the city water that have /
been taken from the lakes and reser-
voirs of the city, it is easy to determine |
that the health officer is entirely salts
fed with what has been done by the
Water company in this direction.
Besides the tests made by DR.. Mcneil
the presence of typhoid had been deter
mined by tests made by Professor
Bartlett, pathologist at the Yale Medi-
cal school, who has found In three days
nine cases as a result Of his eXamina-
tions.
At the office of the board Of health
and by the physicians who
were interviewed last night, 1t was said
that while the cases were somewhat
over the city, most of them
have been located in the western part
Of the town and in Westville.
There are two cases of typhoid among
Yale students. Both patients are now
under treatment at the Yale inf1rmary.
One of the patients is George Wheeler
IN,
partment. Babcock belongs in Neenah,
He roomed at Al Wander
oilt. He had been Ill in his room for
.wo or three days, and when 1t was
finally decided that he had typhoid he
was taken to the infirmary. The other
Yale man i'll with typhoid at the in
Urinary is H. r. Norman, a senior in
he law school, who was taken from
010 Chapel street. He resides in Shew-
vile, Conn.