The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-03-06
ANOTHER FUNERAL.
From the Day Home-Two Victims
Now-Facts About Typhoid.

Now-Facts About Typhoid.
A second victim of typhoid fever
was buried in Crystal Lake Gene
terry Sunday. She was Ina May
Day, 10 year-old daughter in the
John Day home. Her sister, Eva
Bell Day. aged 10, was laid away
in the same burial lot the preceding
Monday. .
The funeral of Ina Day occurred
from the Christian church at two
o'clock. and the service was con-
Quoted by Mrs. Humbert. There
was a splendid offering ssof flowers,
brought by the children of the
public schools. In the same fam
lily, Joe Day, aged about IS, is very
low with the disease.
The melancholy facts above rem
der of keen interest statements that
appear in an article published in
McClure's magazine last June. In
part they are as follows:
All typhoid Is traceable to pol
luted water. If for a year the world
were to stop drinking dilute sewage
typhoid fever would vanish from
our vital statistics. Nine-tenths
Of all infection comes direct from
bad water. Infected cities get the
| disease In one of two ways. They
drink water polluted by themselves
or by others. Lake communities
drink their own offscourings. Res.
idents of river municipalities well
come to their warm and hospit-
able interiors the germs which come
down the stream to them from dis.
eased cities or rural districts direct.
ly above. There is a pleasant the
DRY widely and warmly endorsed by
various boards of health that run
ming water puri6es itself in sever
or eight miles. This is shown te
be fallacious. In Pittsburg in four
teen years typhoid fever has claim
ed 5000 victims, practically al
traceable to the water supply. Some
day Pittsburg will have good water
1t is spending seven and one hall
millions on a filtration plant. A
Butler, Pa, In 1908, a private waite
company was at fault. In sight o
the pumping station stood hous'
where there were two cases of ty
phoid. The refuse from the hous'
was thrown into a creek and car
ried down to the intake. Their
developed in 70 days 1928 cases
Many new grave stones point tn
lesson that while the law OF maj
does not exact its penalties, the Law
of nature will require them.
cat Ithaca, New York, the sea
of Cornell University, an epidemi
existed in 1908. The watershe
supplying the city was lined wit
pigstys, manure piles, garbag
heaps, cattle pens, and o%uthouses
many of them discharging thei
contents almost directly into tn
supply. By the time the diseas
had run its course, there were 1873
known cases out of a population c
1890. more than one to ever,
dozen inhabitants. The fever wa
not the most virulent type. Onl
about 8per cent ofthe reported case
died, but even with this low rat
the mortality reached 725 per 100
: 600.
Typhoid fever differs from mos
/ other diseases in that its trail lead
> from the country to the town. Fac
hamlet, village, and ever farm
> houses, that drain to a watershed
) a peril to every city which draw
its drinking supply from that water
shed.
EVERY man is concerned immee
lately or prospectively, in typhoi
fever, if not through himself the
through his family, his friends. b:
business interests, or the taxes b
pays. You pay taxes to get goo
water and to have the laws enfore
ed. One of the best preventative
against typhoid is the 'pernicior
municipal activity which sees thu
it gets what it pays for. The ma
ter of having typhoid fever at gre;
expense or avoiding it at less e.
pense is largely a matter of INTEL
gent citizenship"
Spraying.
City or country work, country
specially; reasonable rates. Ind