The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-04-17
TYPHOID CASES NUMBER 372.
Review of the Epidemic in Monthly
Bulletin of State Board of Health.

Review Of the Epidemic in Monthly
Bulletin of State Board of Health.
Twelve cases Of typhoid were report
ed to the board ofNhealth yesterday,
making the total number of cases UP to
last night 372. There have been six
teen deaths reported since the epidemic
started.
Joseph C. Lusco, thirty years old. of
ZIG Lafayette street, died at the Cen
eral hospital yesterday morning after
being i'll one week with typhoid.
Cady L. Slagle, brother of Lieuten-
ant Charles Slagle, of chemical COM
avenue from typhoid.
Roger Baldwin, jr., five years old, son
OF Roger B. DeBussy, now with Peck
Brothers & Co. in Boston, died yester-
day from typhoid at the home of his
parents, 522 George street.
Charles Robert Rice, aged twelve
years, died of typhoid Monday night at
the home of his parents, Eugene B. and
Caroline R. Rice, 522 Orchard street
Among the new cases of typhoid re-
ported yesterday is Miss Annie c. Lat
inner, a teacher in the Hillhouse high
school. She boarded on Beers street,
and after going to her home in New
ington before Easter was taken ill.
Her illness Is now declared to be ty-
phoid.
Arthur Manerre, a student at Yale,
rooming at 131 Farnam hall, has been
taken to the Yale infirmary. He has
been i'll several days and the physicians
soy that he has typhoid fever.
Dr. c. A. Lindsey, in the monthly
bulletin of the state board of health,
reviews the epidemic at some length.
He says 1.-THE first intimation of the
epidemic of typhoid fever now prevail
ing In particular locality in New Ha-
ven was given to DR.. Wright. the
health officer, on Wednesday,, the third
day Of April. Through the valuable aid
afforded by the telephone service he
was enabled to communicate rapidly
with a sufficient number of physicians
to determine on the next day the prob
able origin Of the infection and the
medium of its distribution. A personal
examination of the suspected locality
confirmed his suspicious that Dawson
Lake had become infested with typhoid
germs. He notified the Water company
of the conditions he had found. The
water from the accused reservoir was
Immediately shut off from it's consum-
ers and the supply pipe were flushed
out with water from other sources
'In the remote limits of an adjoining
town, eight miles from New Haven,
there had been during the first three
months of the year, at different times,
three cases of typhoid. The discharges
from the patients were not disinfected,
but the father of the family was di-
rected to bury them.
/"During the illness of these patients
the ground was frozen solid, and there
is every reason to believe that there
was no true burial of the feces The
alleged place of burial was on a side
hill with a steep inclination to water
course leading directly to Dawson Lake,
an important reservoir of the New Ha-
ven Water company.
During all the season there had been
an unusual absence of rain. On the
18th of March there was precipitation
of FAC inches in twenty-four hours.
This heavy fall had a securing effecI
upon the surface, carrying all loose de-
bris into the water courses. The tenn
perature had risen during the previous
three days SO that the surface of the
ground was partly thawed, but the
deeper ground was still frozen. Doubt
less the greater part or the whole of the
infected material was washed into
Dawson Lake by this rain on March II.
1.-THE first notice of a marked increase
OF, typhoid was on April 3, twentythree
days after the heavy rainfall of March
II, or on the expira ton of the period of
incubation.
1.-The number of cases reported in
creased daily until the maximum was
reached on the 9th inst, since when it
has decreased. Up to the present date, |
April IL, there have been reported S15
cases.
'The persons afflicted are limited very
closely to those who have been supplied |
with water from Dawson Lake No 9TH
er source of infection has yet been dis
covered, although the most diligent in
quiry has been pursued.
This serious calamity to New Haven |
should be a most impressive and en-
phatic lesson to physicians and health |
officers regarding the necessity of a |
destructive disposal of the eXcreta of |