The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-10

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 and that the parts extending north ane
 south to the lines above given, were
 partially supplied from the same ser
 vice. the quantity and distances de pending upon the pressure in the pipes
 of the water from other lakes.
 I immediately made an appointment with the physician who had been 1T
 attendance upon the Woodbridge cases
 to visit the family. I wished him to ac-
 company me as I believed the people would talk more freely in his presence
 As soon as possible we drove out tC
 the place which is about eight or nine
 miles from the city. I found that
 there had been three persons sick with
 typhoid fever in the house. They had called the doctor to the first case Jan visits.
 On March he had been again called
 and this time he found two more sick.
 He instructed the head of the family to
 bury the fecal discharges, and in car- 1 ry1ng out the instructions the man had 1 taken them several hundred feet from I the house and buried them as estima te from his description, about six or eight
 inches deep in plowed ground distribut- l ed over an area of at least hundred
 feet square and within fifty to hun
 dred feet of a dry waterway. All of this was told to me in the presence of
 the physician and I believe the same to be true.
 The next day. I am told by the off, ciais of the water company, when four | or five of them visited him. he said that | he had buried the discharges in a very circumscribed area, and at 8 depth of two feet This is at variance with his statements to me, and seems hardly probable as there was more or less frost
 in the ground and the amount of care necessary to do this is not consistent with the general appearance of the premises.
 On March il came the first heavy
 rainfall, and few days later the sec
 ond Just when this fecal matter was
 washed away is only a conjecture, but
 that it was is evidenced by the fact that the surface of the ground all around in the vicinity of the place where the discharges had been buried had been excavated by the heavy rains, having furrows from three to six inches deep, leading to the edge of the water way, through which water could only escape In a direction leading directly to Lake Dawson.
 Fortunately was able to observe how large a quantity of water some times goes down this course, as 1t was raining heavily while I was there, and
 a+.,a w~xs1 violently past at the time.
 Upon my return home at about 5:3O p. m. I notified the secretary of the Water company that I believed I had located the source of the infection, and that evening, by request, met the pres ident, secretary and pr, H. F. Smith, the chemical expert of the Water com panX, and laid the facts as above stated before them, with the result that in my presence and without protest the wa ter from the lake was ordered shut off from the supply pipes and the waste gates opened.
 The next day the pipes in the city containing water from this source were blown off The only water from this lake now used is in about twenty houses in Westviiie, where 1t is inn possible to supply other water, and the occupants of these houses have been warned of the danger of using this wa ter without boiling. Within twenty four hours of the first evidence of a serious outbreak of typhoid the source of the infection had been, to my mind, definitely located, and steps had been taken to prevent further infection from this source
 On April we had reported six cases, April 4 ten cases, April 5 thirty-six l cases and April the same number. At | the time of the presentation of this re- | port there have been reported a total of 211 cases, and the diagnosis of ty- | phoid fever in over seventy of these | has been verified by Widals test
 In addition to the above investiga- ton we are as fast as possible ascer- taining of each individual case the | city, well or spring, ice and milk supplies, whether or not the sick persons have eaten raw oysters or olams, celery or other uncooked vege- tables, the sanitary condition of the premises, the condition of the plumbing, whether or not the sick one has been put of the city within three weeks of being taken i'll and finally if proper in- structions have been given in regard to he disinfection of the excreta.
 If is to be expected, even if we have been so fortunate as to have properly coated the source of the infection that here will be many cases for at least wo weeks, and there will be secondary 'ases in other parts of the city.
 The waste gates of Lake Dawson lave been open since very early in the morning of April 5, and I understand he lake should be emptied in two or hree days. The heavy rains of the past CIV days have kept the lake full not the gates are open. The | 'ond by this time must be pretty well lushed out, and any pathogenic mater al there must be pretty we'll diluted.
 It Is not in the province of your body 0 order how the lake or premises upon which the infection is assumed to orig nate, shall be disinfected, but it is in our power to prevent the water being rought within the limits of New Ha- en until you are satisfied that such is \ rec from infection. AS it is probable that pathogenic bac- aria are destroyed by the common wa ar bacteria within few weeks and