Bisbee daily review., 1905-08-27

Physicians of the city report a slight gam in typhoid fever cases since the trst of last week. It is attributed 10 the hot weather that has accompanied rains, making a condition that is en- couraging to the propagation of ty- phoid in a community lacking sewer age facilities to the extent that Bisbee does.
 Previous to last week there had been 3 slight decline for some tine in the number of cases of typhoid com ing uuler treatment. For a while the trouble was practically at a stand still and when the backward move ment set in there was some hope ere ated that it would prove permanent. Had it done so, the record of typhold lever cases for the present season might have been kept below that of last season. There is now said to be Do hope for such occurrence. The record will show in advance of last year. To date there have already been more cases than the same tine in last year.
 Commenting on the situation yester- day. Dr. Edmundson said that 50 far very few Americans had sUccuEbed to the fever this season. The IisI also shows very few married men among the number of patients that have been treated. h expressing opinion as to the causes for this tho doctor said that he attributed 1t large ly tO the different manner of living pursued by Americans and foreigners and by married and single men in the city. Men ho live at home escaped much of the danger present at the res taUyalts through fo0di tainted by flies carrying typhoid, and in a general way conducted themselves in manner less likely to throw them open to attack by the fever As for the for eigners, their manner of living in the camp is for the most part open invitation to attacks from diseases of all sorts. The larger class of foreigners whose names appear on the typhoid record of the city this season are Slavonians- Three of them have been taken to the hos pital this summer from one tTo-rOOm house on Chihuahua Hill. Beside these two-room house. The surroundings were .n bad condition, and sQualoT Teigned inside the house.
 If the people of the city, particular ly the foreign element, could be made to live in sanitary manner to protect their premises, physicians are agreed that health conditions would be vastly improved Among the foreigners there is almost general disregard of all sanitary measures. In some portions of the town they live in manner that would disgrace the lowest city sums. Almost unbelievable beastiness is re- ported in connection with the manner of living of some of these people, and the wonder is created that they do not breed vastly more disease than they do.
 An instance serving to illustrate is reported from an Italian family. The husband daily hauls home swill gath cred from the slop barrels of restau- rants about the city. This putrid waste stuff he empties into a barrel on his wagon. It is common knowl- edge with many people who have wit messed the loathesome sight that on his arrival home with the wagon his wife and children climb onto it and fish greedily in the mass in the barrel with their hands, dragging out mouth fuls of stuff and devouring it. These people are not in need, and their beastly conduct is merely a demon stratiOn of greed of the brute kind.