Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-21

which were severe in type, the re-
manning seven mild. This infection is
ascribed in seven cases to the use of
river water, three unknown. No
deaths.
Norridgewock reports two cases, not
especially severe in type. One person
afflicted had previously visited Fair
field where the disease prevailed and
the physician thinks the disease was
contracted there; the other case oc-
Cured in the family in an outlying dis
trict and no assigned cause for the
disease can be given. No deaths.
The report from Gardiner was to the
effect that there had been twelve cases
in that city, I'armingdale and Ran
dolph. Five cases out of the twelve oc-
Cured in one house. 1t is the opin-
ion of the physician that in all but two
of the cases the disease had been con-
tracted in Augusta and Naterville and
the remaining two had frequented
this city Two deaths We're reported.
The response from Bowdoinham was
to the effect that no cases of typhoid
fever had existed during the past win
ter and that the disease had not oc-
CURED there to any extent for a num-
Der of years. There is no public water
supply and the village depends upon
surface wells and a spring of pure wa
ter situated n mile or so outside the
village.
The reply from Oakland elected the
following: "A few cases have occurred
contracted in Waterville. The source
of water supply is from Snow pond
and wells"
Three cases are reported from Clin-
ton: two of moderate and one of Sc
we're type. The report states the three
cases had all occurred during the win
ter months in the village; that they
all came from Waterville where there
had been an unusual epidemic due, as
the writer believes, to the water sup
ply. Clinton is supplied by wells and
springs.
TO my interrogations addressed to
Winthrop the response was that only
two cases had occurred in the town.
Both cases came from out of town, one
from Waterville and one from Au-
gusta. The source of water supply is
from springs on the hillsides.
The reply from Readfield was to the
effect of total exemption of the disease.
The supply of water is from springs.
The writer states that rheumatism,
tonsilitis and diseases of an intlamma-
tory type have been with us for eight
months past
Richmond reports twenty cases; five
of a grave type; five moderately Sc
we're; and ten, while they We're well
marked cases, We're exceedingly mild
in character. The attributed cause of
the disease was to river and well wa
ter. Six of the cases denied ever
drinking river water and three drank
water from the same well. No cases
occurred in the rural districts and the
disease was confined entirely to the viii
age.
| have been very solicitous that I
might be able to present complete re
cords regarding the epidemic which
has been so prevalent in this city and
Waterville but. for reasons no doubt
which l have explained above. / have
not received any communication from
my heterogeneous addressed to Wa
teryile. | am informed by the city
clerk of Augusta that two hundred ana
twenty-five cases of typhoid fever
have been reported for his tabulation
up to the 18th of the present month.
The city hospital has contributed tC
the care of fifty-fiVe. OF two hundred
and twenty-five cases reported from
the entire municipality there have been
twenty deaths. There have been
three we'll marked cases at tn Maine
Insane hospital all of which We're very
mild. The water for drinking purposes
vt the institution is supplied by springs.
| wish to give due credit to the va
rious physicians of the county who
so kindly responded to my requests and
hereby express my grateful knowledge
1t will thus be observed that the dis
ease has been prevalent in nearly all
of the towns bordering on the banks
of the Kennebec river so far as have
been reported, from NOrridgeWock to
BoWdoinham and extending in to some
Of the adjacent outlying municipalities
1t has evidently been both sporadic
and epidemic. In Augusta the type of
disease, if | am rightly informed, has
been somewhat severe in character.
As a general rule the malady began to
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