The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-30
TYPHOID EPIDEMIC
At BUTLER SERIOUS
Doctors Are Dying and Citizens
Ask Philadelphia for As
sistance.

BUTLER, Pa, Nov. 29.-Three
deaths occurred today from fever, and
new cases are being reported constant
ly One doctor has sixtyfive fever pa
tients and cannot attend to all. DR..
James Grossman broke down under the
strain yesterday and today has ty-
phoid fever. Four doctors are now
sick, the others being Drs. Winter, Har-
ris and McAdoo. This afternoons
public meeting, held in the court house,
was highly successful. A total of $4,000
was raised in less than an hour.
Those doctors and preachers who
are best acquainted with the situation
say the worst is yet to come and that
there will not be sufficient money to
last till the subsidence of the epi-
demic which, judging from the history
Of previous fever scourges, will last
until spring. The expenses of the re-
lief committee will amount to nearly
$1,000 per week.
A general relief committee was Sc
lected by the meeting to have in charge
all the arrangements during the epi-
dem1c, for the care of fever patients
and the families needing assistance
otherwise. This committee is COM
posed of leading citizens with Charles
M. Heineman, president; the editors Of
the Butler papers, secretaries and
Thomas p. Shuffiin, treasurer. The
ministers were requested to act as an
advisory committee to serve and re-
port as needed.
Reports to the committee tonight
show fifty new cases today and three
deaths. As nearly as the committee
can estimate the number of cases since
the disease first developed is 1850. OF
this number at least twenty eight have
died. From now on accurate lists of
cases aAi deaths will be kept by the
ResFtlses to appeals for aid in the
way of nurses and money have been
prompt and liberal. Ten nurses came
in today from Pittsburg and more are
to follow. Offers of nurses from New
castle and Cleveland and financial aid
from Philadelphia and Pittsburg have
been accepted by the committee. Nurses
from outside towns will be required
to bring credentials from their hos
pitfalls.
All druggists in the city will fill pre-
scriptions at cost, and the undertakers
have rendered the use of their ambu-
1ances free. Temporary hospitals have
been established, and they are rapidly
being filed with patients.
Philadelphia Sends Help.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Nov. %
After a consultation with Dr. Edward
Martin, director of the department of
public health and charities, Mayor
Weaver tonight sent DR.. F. C. John
son, assistant to the chief resident
physician of the Philadelphia hospital,
to Butler, Pa, where typhoid fever is
epidemic, to investigate conditions
there with view of having the city
of Philadelphia assist the citizens of
that town. If DR.. Johnson finds that
help is needed to fight the disease and
assist those already stricken, he will
report by telegraph and the mayor will
Immediately call together the citizens
permanent relief committee for action.
IL aid is given, it will probably be in
the form of corps of nurses and a
large contribution of money. Mayor
Weaver has received two appeals for
help from citizens of Butler, but, as
they did not come from the municipal
authorities of the town, he decided to
have an investigation made before
calling meeting of the relief COM
mittee.