The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-15
City Physician Says Topeka Is
Healthy.
Only Seven Cases Of the Dreaded
Disease Here.
BUT BOIL THE WATER
Says That Is a Wise PrecautiOn
to Take.
Contagion Of All Kinds Reduced
to Minimum.
BUT BOIL THE WATER

Though typhoid fever is raging in
way to be feared in all the larger citl-
les in the east and others IN the cen
zraI west Dr. H. B. HogeboOms city
physician. saws that Topeka has no
need to fear that it Will break out IN
any alarming fashion in Topeka. IN
eact the city physician believes that
Topeka has no occasion to anticipate an
epidemic from any sort Of disease.
This in the face of seven cases Of ty-
phofd fever which have been already
uuarantined this month, a decided in
crease over July when for the whole
month there were but two cases Of
Ayphoid reported During July ana
August Of 1905 no typhoid fever cases
were reported at all, so that conditions
seem more favorable to a spread OF ty-
phoid fever germs this summer than
last.
ph0id IN Topeka, said De doge-
boom. II understand that there are a
large number Of cases existing in other
cities but don't believe that We viii
nleet with any trouble here. The drink
ing water should be boiled to kill the
germa-this IS about the only word that
need be said in the way Of precautlon.
EVe have never had any trouble since
she wells on lower Tyler street have
been closed up. A number of cases or
2zinstsd there and We had a hard time
Stamping them out They broke out
several successive years, due OF course
20 drinking the water. The WaterWorks
department extended a service main IN
this neighborhOod and the people are
now using the city water.
THE city seems unusually whole
some and there are no indica tons that
we viii have any epidemic of any sort.
I'VE commence to look for scarlet fever
at this time of the year and I presume
a number Of such cases will make their
appearance during the next few
months
IAN Of the school houses in the city
will be given a thorough fumigation
before the school term opens. Germs
of disease which have been lurking
shout in the rooms and have multi
piled during the summer in the hot
closed rooms will be killed and not
given a chance to get in their work on
the school children
The decrease in the number of con-
fagious diseases this year when COM
pared with last IS something remark
able. A total of 225 contagious cases
of disease were placed under quaran-
tine from the first of January to the
23rd Of August 1905; from the first
of January this year. until the 18th Of
August 1906, there were but 6 4 cases
auarantined by the city sanitary de-
give no adequate reason why relative
~ the city should be SO much health
Ter this year.
For seven months, a half of 1905
there were as many cases of smallpox
as the entire number OF contagious
cases Of disease during the same
length OF time this year-64.
The months of June, July and Au-
gust always seem to be the healthfesi
months of the year for then conta-
giOus disease appears to be at its
ebb. In 1906 during June, July and
August there were "A cases Of disease
IN all. divided as follows: June IT
July 10 and August s. This year the
total for those same months has beer
exactly 20 divided as follows-June Z
July 4 and August 8.
April had the largest number Of
Infectious diseases for the first eigh+
Enonths Of 1908, having a total of 81
eases. January had the largest mum
sbeF during the corresponding time
this year with % cases, twenty o.
these being diphtheria.
Comparative data show that from
January to the middle Of August. 1908
Ahere we're 20 cases of scarlet fever
25 cases of chicken pox. So Of diph-
liberia and 81 OF smallpox, while during
l906 there were 16 cases Of scarle
lever, u OF chicken pox, A of diph
fheris, "A OF smallpox and nine O
typhoid