The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-11
THE FEVER EPIDEMIC.
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condition of things may be inferred.
 Typhoid is an insdious disease. Its preliminary symptoms are so light thai the patient himself does not know he IS i'll with it, not taking to his bed until week or more has gone by. It takes some time after that to find out that he has the disease. As a consequence, noI till three days after nearly all who had succumbed to the first infection had become seriously ill were the first hal1 dozen cases reported to the health ofil- cer. For the same reason the cases which have been reported up to last night, about 2S5 in all date back seV- eral days to the time when the patients first took to their beds. The cases which have developed meanwhile have not, as a rule, been reported.
 The second infection, which occurred three weeks ago, is making itself felt now. From a trustworthy source, it IS learned that one prominent physician stopped another on the street yesterday and informed him that he had just dis covered in his own practice twenty-one cases.
 The third infection, which occurred during the exceptionally heavy rains two WGGkS dBOi I1S J Sl eI NSCh Aoi IT cubation. As the ground was excavat- ed and furrowed by these rains to depth of from three to six inches, the buried discharges and the remaining surface soil must have gone in at that time
 A matter which adds to the serious views of the case is that patients do not reach the crisis in typhoid until three weeks after they take to their beds. A large number of cases report ed by the physicians have tempera- ture of 104 and 105 at the first visit.
 Yale university resumes work this morning That the epidemic may cause the college authorities to take de- cided action in the matter is not inn possible. It was learned yesterday that the water main which has been cut off from the infected reservoir leads to Church street before it meets the main pipe from Lake Whitney It is be- lIeved, however, by the Water company that the alleged infected water could not have gone below College street on account of the back pressure from Lake Whitney. Since however, it has prob ably reached the area of student board ing houses it is a subject of apprehen- sion.
 In the absence from the city yester- day of President Hadley and other Yale officials, consultation was held yesterday morning by Professor Henry P. Wright, dean of the academic de- partment, and by Professor Russell H. Chittenden, director of the Sheffield Scientific school. They decided that 1t 4o{<, m II the students and to their parents tell ing them officially the nature of the ep- idemic as it appears to the Yale lead- CTS and cautioning them against using New Haven city water for a time The circular letter which was drawn up by the members of the academic depart :, ment and later in the day sent out to studentss and their parents, .sis as fol | lows
 Yale University,
 Secretary's Office April 10, 1901.
 Dear Sir-Many cases of typhoid fev- CT have recently developed in that sec tion of the city west of York street and | fed from the Dawson Lake reservoir. | The cause of the infection has, it is thought, been discovered and removed, [ while that part of New Haven in which | the majority of students live secures it's water almost entirely from other sources.
 Acting under the advice of the health officer and some of the best known phy- sicians, and with the approval of the dean of the academical department and the director of the Sheffield Scientific school, 1t has been decided, however, to urge all students to refrain for the present from drinking any city water that has not been previously boiled It is also advisable that no uncooked veg .etables be eaten. If these simple rules are observed there need be no fear on the part of students in the university or their parents.
 Yours very truly,
 ANSON PHELPS STOKES, JR.,
 Secretary. The following was posted on the bull letin board of Yale's Sheffield hall yes- terday;
 Sheffield Scientific School of Yale Uni-
 versity. Directors Office, No. 3 Sheffield Hall,
 New Haven, April 10, 1901.
 NOTICE
 In view of the present outbreak of typhoid fever in the western section of New Haven, believed to be due to the of the city water coming from a reservoir used by that section of the city, the attention of all students in the Sheffield Scientific school is called to the necessity of taking proper precau- / tions to guard against possible infec- ' ton. ! It is believed that the cause of the r trouble has now been removed, but it is 7 very important that all students ab- ; stain from drinking city water unless f 1t has been previously boiled, and to abstain likewise from eating uncooked ( until after the epidemic has c entirely ceased. f R. H. CFIITTENDEN, Director of the Sheffield Scientific School.
 Two more cases were admitted at the l ~ 1ew Haven hospital yesterday, one in he afternoon and one in the evening. This brings the list at the hospital up o twenty-five. 4 NO TYPHOID AT THE r. ". c. 4. 4
 noon Paper Yesterday. g It was enormously stated in an af- C