The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-09
.SHUN CITY WATER
ESCAPE TYPHOID.
THAT SEEMS THE RULE IN EAST
SIDE SCHOOLS.
Canvass OF Schools Shows that Where.
City Water Is Used Least, There Is,
4: Least typhoid Some of the Schools
Discontinued Use Of City Water
Weeks Ago.

A careful examination into condi-
tons obtaining in the various East
Side schools shows typhoid prevalent
IN q few and altogether absent In 9TH
ers. IN some schools spring water is
used and typhoid cases originate in
the homes of the children
Ihere ls among the principals Of
the East Side schools very general
suspicion of the city water and in
nearly every school the children have
been taught to avoid it, even when
It Is necessary for them to go three
or more hours without a drink of any
sort This, several of the principals
believe, accounts for the few deaths
from typhoid fever which have oc-
CURED among the East Side pupils In
the past two months while the East
Side pumps have been furnishing peo-
pie In Southeast Minneapolis with sew
age. s 3a sis se.s ISL
The East high. with its 500 pupils,
mas been using spring water for a
long time and has during the past
three months had about half a dozen
cases Of typhoid fever, no one OF
which has resulted fatally, The Sid
ney Pratt school, with its 200 pupils,
mas Tor several weeks been using
spring water, for which the pupils
pay, and has had noScases Of typhoid.
The Marcy school, with it's $50 pupils,
|
city water was shut off, two weeks
ago, and has one case Of typhoid, but
| It's pupils have never been allowed
| to drink the city water at the school.
In the Motley school. where city
water was used up to three weeks ago,
at which time spring water was sub
! stituted, there are now three cases OF
typhoid among the $50 pupils, while
at the big Holmes school, with its SOC
1 in 1xTnf 70, ,to1 ed ir-
eight Of the twenty rooms but short
time ago, and there have been thirty.
five cases of typhoid, one of which re-
suited fatally. On the other hand, ir
the futile school. with it's 275 mem.
bers, the pupils have gone withou
water during school hours for the past
several months, and there are no cases
and have been none in the school.
The practice of bringing drinking
general at the Nicollet school since the
city water was shut off two weeks ago
but there are seven cases Of typhoid
in that school. In the other schools il
| Northeast Minneapolis the city water
has been generally used, without ap
parently harmful results.
There. are four cases reported from
the Webster school. with it's 400 pu
pills, one from the Sheridan, with it.
1 otV pupllS, Two from the f1Ollanu, Will
it's 500 pupils, three from the Pierce
school, with it's 500 pupils, but none
from other schools.
While there is a, general desire
among the principals of the schools tt
see spring water used in the schools
the bottle brigades are increasing II
size and in those schools where tn.
pupils are practically forbidden tn
l1use Of the city water, during schoo
hours, there has been mo complaint
In several schools. neighboring wells
and in the case Of one N ortheas
school, a spring in a park, are resortet
to for the water supply. But the cit,
water is Stunned in Southeast Mime
apo1is and is gladly abandoned in tn
4 Northeast district.