The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1906-05-12
DISEASE APPEARS.
Typhoid and Ptomainc Poisoning Dan
gers Of San Francisco.

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~ Oakland, Cal, May Poor old Sa
Francisco, with its old landmarks
mass of tangled and still smolderin
\ wreckage, and its thousands of suffer
y ing people! The place tonight present
q scene which no pen can describe
What has passed during the nineteen
days since the earthquake and fire il
slowly creeping into history. During
, the past nineteen days San Francisco
has been living hell. In the weeks
aEd months to come, yes, even in the
years that are to follow, this state OF
hell will continue.
II is all we'll enough for the promi-
nent business men of San Francisco.
tho government officials and those con-
nected with the Red Cross Society, to
be sanguine over what is being done
to relieve the suffering Of San Fran
cisco q stricken people and of the flu
sure.
| 1t Is all well enough for these men
to say: Well, we II build better and
more beautiful city," 1t is all well
enough for DIR. Devine to say: "We
have the situation well in hand, and no
one will go without food or clothing y
This is right and hopeful view to
take of the matter.
These big committees win care for
the masses after their fashion Of doing
things on big scale, but there are
hundreds who are bound 10 be over.
looked, thrust aside by the scramble for
supplies, and this is not all.
Yesterday and today gave an init.
nation OF the disease and sickness
which physicians have feared would
break out. The drinking water of the
stricken city Is polluted with typhoid
fever germs. The constant cry of the
health department officials for DAYS has
been "boil the water before drink
'ng.' This is easy advice, but, when
people are cooking outdoors ON shat
'ered stoves and rudely constructed 1
'yens made of broken brick, with the
Wind day after day blowing gale. it
no wonder that the warning to boil I
he water is ignored.
Those in charge of the city's affairs (
cross the bay have steadfastly main
AIMED there was no danger from an |
pidemlc. This was the truth a week b
go. 1t was too early for infection. v
ut now tho period of incubation has
un' and what the physicians have been s,
repairing themselves for-the ont lip
reak OF typhoid-has struck the citv. a
Yesterday fourteen cases were taken = =
the Preside hospital, and today
ozen more cases were recorded. &C
tomaine poisoning is developing. This p'
aturally must follow the constant diet 81 .,
corned beef and other canned goods
'on which the people have been living OF
nee the earthquake. This is one wav m
at sickness is spreading in San Fran &c
SEQ.
M. Al
The other and even more dangerous tr,
" wlii come from the supply depots. tic
these places wagon loads of bread I'M
ter being carted through the streets 20
st-strewn and filthy, are unloaded at sal
sse camps. Typhoid germs will find the
Dir way into the bread and into the
'machs of the people, just as thew b ma
uid by drinking polluted water. So
ch for this.
NOW for the half ny sterical and
've-saattered people who still CLING 90,
the stricken city. Hardly day hss
sea since Wednesday, April is. but Z
!, the city has been rocked bv an :,
lnquake. Last Wednesday there IN
terrific shock, and this morn;no ea err
ruy after 10 O'Clock another bard A.
nplor that sent men, women and m;
luren from their homes and buildings A -,
the streets screaming mad IN az
'ht. How long the people 3 nerves ~
stand this is unanswerable. They oth
brave people, these folks who moi,
. passed through the earthouake vol,
nre, but there is a limit to all est;
age 1t simply means that. if the on I,
most cora ae w s'oan ana tremble, fgu
the city. ~ anu on
deed, In some quarters men of an 49, o'
ity are talking of sending all of T,
women and children out of San NJ ~
icisco. This is talked of bv M loaa ~ ~
ority that Captain Kennedy WIZ a ano
osnital ~ Az United states gener- form
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