The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-13
NUMBER OF TYPHOID CASES
THOSE REPORTED BY THE HEALTH
 OFFICE REACH 317.

Scores of Applications for WOfk He- ceived From Nurses from Wide Radius-Members of State Board Oi Health Still Studying the Eptde mtc- Bed of Dawson Lake Has Been Cleaned.
 The official number of typhoid cases
 was reported at the health office yester-
 day as just 317 up to o'clock. The
 mortality resulting from typhoid Is
 likely to be heavy, so the health author
 ities believe. The number of deaths
 from the disease is now ten, so far as
 can be ascertained.
 Health Officer Wright said yesterday
 that he had received from New York,
 Syracuse Buffalo, Providence, R.. l.,
 and many other cities scores of appli-
 cations from nurses to come here and
 care for the patients. The health off, cer said that he did not deem 1t neces-
 sary to send for any of these appli-
 cants, but that he would keep the list on hand.
 Members of the state board of health
 who were here Thursday at the quar- terly meeting remained over and are studying the epidemic. Dr. R. 8. Good win, of Thomaston, one of the members of the state board, was here yesterday looking over the map which shows the location of reported cases, and consult ed with Dr. Wright, the health officer of the city. The epidemic, which is the most extensive ever recorded in the state is the subject of a good deal of interest among the health officials. Dr. Wright said yesterday that there was no material change in the situation, but that the officials were hopeful that th9 decrease in the number of cases reporE ed would be permanent
 Since the present epidemic broke out the Water company has been criticised because the filtration system was not in use In regard to this President Whitney yesterday said that only few of the large cities have yet adopted the system. The company, he said, is pre- pared to expend large sums of money to make the water supply as pure as it can be made but the filtration system has not yet proved It's worth. The New Haven Water company has been watch ing experiments. elsewhere, and when it. is shown that the filtration plants are satisfactory the company will expend a large sum in equipping the watersheds here.
 Mr. Whitney also said that the com- pany had, during the past few years, made heavy expenditures in purchasing property situated along the lakes and reservoirs, with a view of removing all possible danger of contamination of the water In the vicinity of the Bethany system Mir Whitney said that several pieces of property, with houses built upon the land, had been bought up and the dwellings removed.
 Dawson Lake, to which has been trac- ed the present epidemic has been clean- ed out thoroughly. All the water has been drawn off, the bed of the lake cleaned by removing the mud to sandy bottom. and is reported to have been refilled yesterday morning. AL though 1t is still to supply a part of Westville by permission of the board of health, it is to remain filled for thir- ty days and then drained again. In the meantime, it. is reported, all the mains have been cleaned, and the phy- sicians and health authorities sound the same warning to boil all drinking wa ter.
 Two more cases of typhoid were re- ceived at the New Haven hospital yes terday, one in the forenoon and the other last evening. These make twen- ty-seyen cases now at the hospital. Some of the patients are very critically i'll. There are ten cases at Grace hos pital
 It is said that the map on which the reported cases are indicated shows them to be in every ward in the city but the Fourteenth.
 The authorities at the New Haven hospital applied at the Hartford hospi- tai Thursday for four nurses, and they were sent to this city yesterday. They are Miss Alice Goodwin, Miss Maggie Marvin, Miss Sarah Carroll and Miss Wheeler
 The board of education has installed In all of the schools an apparatus for he heating and cooling of water. This measure is taken in order that there nay not be the slightest danger of in- lection to the school children.