Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-22
TYPHOID IN The MILK
Infected Dairy Cause of an
Epidemic of Fever at Lee
land Stanford
ONE HUNDRED STUDENTS SICK
Health Officers Claim to Have Traced
the Disease to Dairy Where In
fected Milk Was sold-Two Deaths
Have Occurred and Many Others Are
in Critical Condition.

Palo Alto, Cal, April 22.-Bad milk
from one dairy in this city is declared
responsible for the 100 cases of typhoid
fever ait present existing in Stanford
University, and in the city. The dairy
held to blame has been closed, and
other dairies under suspicion have been
made to cease business temporarily,
and the health authorities now claim
to have the situation we'll in hand.
So far only two deaths have resulted
from the epidemic, but of the 100 pa
ious condition, and even if no more
cases appear more fatalities are believ-
ed certain.
The disease was considered stamped
out early last week, but twenty more
cases have been reported since last Fri
day night. The university seems about
third of the Palo Alto high school stu
tents are absent because of the ILL
ness of their friends or in their fam
lilies. San Francisco hospitals nurses
ire thick in Palo Alto, and their white
caps and aprons are M There
are fourteen here from Lane hospital
alone.
William Pountz, bookkeeper for the
San Francisco Oil Company. died on
Saturday. odd Joe,'' the Encina hall
Japanese j%anitor. died early in the
weekJ. Pierce Mitchell, '02, is declared
hear death. "Dickey" Barrett. of Her
man, Mimi, e. E. Miller. of Vinton.
Iowa, and E. Duval, of Saticoy, are the
most serious Ill Of the students.
President Jordan declared that the
university would not close. He believes
the epidemic is nearly over. This may
Pa1o Alto and of the campus is declared
perfectly pure, and the suspected dair-
les are all closed.
DR.. Wilbur, health officer of the uni
versity, when asked as to the cause. of
the sudden epidemic, of typhoid, said:
II am able to trace every case on
The campus to the use of infected milk.
The Phi Delta Theta house, the Zeta
Psi house and the Johnson residence
we're the only places OH the campus
where the milk from the suspected
dairy was used. and in these three
places are n majority of the cases. The
five cases among the students in En-
Gina hall also ave been trace to the
same source. The students did not eat
at the nm, where pure milk Is served,
took their meals Unfortunately,
at the restaurants in Palo Alto. 4 The
water on the campus has been tested
and pronounced pure. Every resident
on the campus uses the same water, yet
the fever is found only in the three
houses that used the infected milk.
ut seems reasonable to attribute the
disease to this milk, sold by n man
only to the people who have the dis
ease. We have a thoroly good
system at the university and it is nom
sense to attribute the disease to poor
sewerage. It was the milk and the milk
alone, that brought the disease. In
Palo Alto the situation is much the
same as on the campus-the people
who used the milk from the dairy are
the people who have been seized with
typhoid"
lnvades tho Public Schools.
The fever situation among the public
school children in Palo Alto has ake
a serious aspect. In both h high
school and the grammar schools the
attendance has fallen off one-third.
While the fever has not taken hold OF
all those who have dropped out OF from
the school, many We're refused the priv
ileges of the schools on account OF fever
being in their homes. In the mgr
school W teachers have contracted enc
disease. In the grammar school n
teacher has been afflicted and another
has. the symptoms. The demand on the
doctors in Palo Alto and at the uni
yersity has been extraordinary.