The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-10
THE SIXTY TYPHOID CASES
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l that time the secondary cases which in- variably appear resulting from care lessness of attendants are expected. The question of germs still remaining in the city water has not yet wholly been answered, although Officer Wright's statement in his report to the board yesterday seems convincing. He said that the next day after the Dawson supply was cut off the pipes in the city
 containing water from this source were
 blown off. Opposed to this is the state
 ment made by Dr. Lindsey on Monday
 evening that the distributing pipes in
 the city had yet to be flushed by the
 company. No information can be got
 from citizens in the infected district
 that the hydrants were opened at the
 time or that they were directed to let
 the faucets run in their houses. If the
 infected water was not flushed out at
 once the new pressure from another
 reservoir may have sent it to another
 part of the city. There seems to be
 some confusion in the minds of the off,
 cials as to whether, when the company
 flushed the main pipes leading from
 the reservoir, they also attended to the
 distributing pipes in the infected streets
 of the city.
 An important move of the officials
 yesterday was their notification to the
 Water company to let the water now in
 Lake Dawson stand for at least month for the germs to die out, and to
 then draw it off and fill the lake with fresh water. Lake Dawson has been supplying a part of the community in Westyille, which, it seems, will now have to dispense with city water until the month is over.
 In, view of protracted siege against the epidemic, large question which now looms up is what action the au- thorites at Yale will take in the matter. Health Officer Wright said last night that, personally, if he had a son at Yale. who was at present out of the city he would do his best to keep him away. Anson Phelps Stokes, jr., secretary or the corporation, has been out of town until yesterday, and when seen last night said that he had not yet had time for proper investigation into the mat ter.
 Professor F. w. Spinutlus, instructor in chemistry at Lehigh university, and C0GDllSI hem Water company, stated yesterday that after an analysis of the water from Lake Dawson he believes that New Ha- ven people are not suffering from ty- phoid, but from a sort of malarial ty- phoid. Physicians interviewed last night said they believe the epidemic to be true typhoid, and that malaria and typhoid are distinct. cases not running from one into the other.
 It has been decided that only one of l the patients at the jail suspected of | being typhoid victims is suffering from | that disease. The typhoid patient is | James Carroll, who was committed to | ail last fall for a long term on con- | 1iction of obtaining money under false | oretenses. The other patient, prison 1T named Donnelly, Is i'll with malaria, which was at first thought to be ty- ohoid fever.
 Three more typhoid patients were re- ,eived at New Haven hospital yester- lay, making the total number of pa- tents there r5wa. i.l of typhoid fever wenty-two. It was stated at the hos ,itaI last night that some of the ty ,hoid patients were quite sick, but that lone of the cases was yet considered rit!cal.
 One more typhoid patient was re- eived at Grace hospital yesterday, making the total number now there uffering with that disease eight. None s dangerously i'll.