Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-16
SIX new CASES IUUAI
Apparent Change for Better
in Typhoid Conditions.
RENEWED VIGILANCE
SPECIAL ANALYSIS OF ICE SUP
Piled TO CITY.
Results Of Crusade Against Impure
Cellars and Alleyways-Filtered
Water Available Saturday.

Although todays reports of the progress
of the typhoid fever outbreak. which is
summarized in the recording Of only SIX
new cases. would seem to Indicate a mark
ed change for the better. the health office
authorities and the District officials gen
orally refused to build any false hopes.
For this. 1t may be safely said, there IS
a double reason-f1rSt. that the evening
mall at the health office may bring news
of many additional cases-and, second,
that any undue expression of eiation would
tend to increase the already evident dam
ger of many residents of the city neglect
ing to take the absolutely necessary pre-
cautions because Of their belief that the
opening of the filtration plant means the
prompt capituIation of the army OF "
phoid fever germs.
After The Stars report closed al noon
yesterday five more cases were reported
making total for Tuesday of ten cases.
These. with the names of six additional
patients placed upon the record this morn
Ing. bring the total Of new cases since july
/ up to 800. When the health office closed
on Monday evening there We're 80 patients
under treatment for typhoid fever. Since
then sixteen cases have been reported. while
against this seeming increase there is bal
anced one recovery, one change of diagno-
sis and two deaths today, and one recov-
cry and one death reported yesterday after
noon. that the number actually under
treatment at l O'Clock this afternoon was
officially stated at the health office to be
245. fiat increase OF five over the number
under treatment when The Stars report
closed yesterday
In the corresponding period last year, that
is, from July l to August 16, there were
1919 cases reported six of that number on
August Is. while the number under treat
ment year ago today was 1856. or eighty
nine less than are down with the disease
today.
Available Saturday.
According to present plans the water
which was turned into the two completed
filter beds at the filtration plant yesterday
will become part Of the actual water sup
ply of the city Saturday. If nothing
intervenes to change the announced tnten-
ton Of the engineers in charge of the plant
to open one new bed every other day an
other filter will be added tomorrow an
other on Saturday. and so one until Sep
TENDER %. when twenty-one of the beds,
enough to furnish filtered water to ali
Washington will be in operation. After that
all energy will be concentra ted on finishing
the additional eight filter beds. which will
constitute the completed filtra ton plant
Apropos of the ultimate effect of fltra-
ton upon the city water supply, Health Of
f1cer Woodward today referred to a
record elaborated in 1894 when the relative
cities throughout the world was shown At
tached to record is table explaining
the source of supply of each city and the
process through which it passes before
1t reaches the populace; that is, whether or
not 1t is filtered. subjected to sedmenta-
ton or any other purifying medium At
that time Washington stood sixty fourth on
the list. and this. 1t is believed. is about ..e
same relative position occupied by the cap
ital today.
Cities Embraced in Groun
The cities. as shown in eight groups
were as follows:
Munich and Vienna water supplied
from pure mountain streams Percentage
of deaths from typhoid, 40 per 100, 900
population.
Berlin. Hamburg. London Edinburg
and six others. water filtered Typhoid
death rate. S.3 per 100000
Paris, Brussels Copenhagen and four
others. water supplied from ground wa
ters, large springs. wells. collecting pipes,
&c. Typhoid death rate. 147 per 100000.
New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Glasgow
Sidney and two others Death rate from
typhoid. 231. Water supply largely COM
posed of surface water with large reser-
Voirs. and water sheds protected from
pollution.
Montreal. Quebec Trenton. Toledo, New
Orleans ST. Louis and two others Water
supply from normal rivers, from which the
polutian may be said to have vanished
IypnOlu ueatn rate. 80 per loDOOU
Hamilton. Toronto, Detroit. Chicago,
Cleveland and two others. Water supply
from large lakes. more or less subject to
pollution. Death rate from typhoid fever.
S0.3 per 100000.
San Francisco Denver Providence, Hart
ford and three others. Water supply from
upland streams and small lakes, with linn
tied water sheds. Typhoid death rate. 1910
per 100000.
Philadelphia, Atlanta Cincinnati. Jersey
City. Camden. Washington and five others
Water supply from public and private wells
and rivers which are known to be polluted
with sewage and other infectious sub
stances Death rate from typhoid averages
COS per 100000.
A Direct Result.
One direct result of the crusade against
unclean cellars and back yards throughout
the city. in which the police are co-operat-
ing with the health office inspectors to
eliminate any added danger of the spread
of typhoid fever. was felt today in the
office of the superintendent of street clean
ing. The police began making the rounds
Of dwellings their beats on Monday
Consequently there was a general cleaning
up yesterday, and the natural result
that hundreds of garbage cans were filled
to Overlooking.
A long time ago the Washington Fertilizer
Company. which has the contract to remove
all garbage from the city, warned
that when the watermelon and corn season
arrived muCh more work would be required
of them; but the simultaneous arrival of
the height of the watermelon and corn sea-
son and general cleaning up crusade was
not foreseen.
AS result of the melon season already
much mentioned. and the consequent over
loading of garbage cans with rinds, the
daily complaints against the garbage COL
lection service jumped to about fifty or
sixty as much as week go High-water
mark In complaints was touched this morn
ing when the morning mail in the street
cleaning department brought an even one
hundred complaints. Commissioner Mac
farland and Superintendent Stidham are do
ing all in their power to remedy the situa-
ton and 1t was announced this morning
that the fertilizer company, which suffers a
penalty every time just complaint OF ne
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