Bisbee daily review., 1909-08-18
TYPHOID FEVER |S NOT NOW
 EPIDEMIC

While there is no epidemic of ty- hold fever. the disease is now more prevalent than it has been at any tire for year past. and the number of cases now active is not far from being the same as last year at this tiDe. say the physicians. On the other hand there are fewer cases in Bishee proper than there were at that tfne. and the most of the cases now ocese- ring are found in the Johnson add< tion and in Lowell. though there are more cases in the city proper than is desirable
 Yesterday there were eight active cases of typhoid fever in each of the hospitals and eight or ten more at least which are being cared for in the homes of the patients, but not half ct these cases are from Bisbee proper although all are occurring in the dis trict and in the immediate vieinty of the city. The improved sanitary conditions of Bisbee can not but have caused dininution of the disease which is bred in filth.
 The preventive is better than the cure and all possible sanitary meas ures should be universally adopted Flies are the great germ carriers and the butchers and 'grocers as well as the householder should do all in their power to keep foodstuffs protected from the pestiferous house fly. Cond{ tions about the premises should sse put into sanitary shape and so masr- ! tained and parents should keep their boys from playing or bathing in the flood waters which have swept down | hillsides. through streets ard subway and into pools below
 DISEASE IS PREVALENT. Dr. Edmundson was seen bv Re view reporter yesterday end said that { the disease could not in any way be ttermed epidemic. He declared that I was prevalent but no more so than
 last year and less so than in other years of the past
 "A large majority of the cases are
 from Lowell. the Johnson addition ana other outlying communities where Ire conditions resemble those of Bisbee formerly and where the sewerage sys-
 tenn has not been perfected as it has
 in this city"
 \ Dr. Edmundson urged that citizens
 take all possible precautions. He sail
 that unsanitary conditions were the
 chief cause of typhoid and the common
 house fly the main offender in the
 way of germ bearing. The fact that
 boys are seen playing in the flooi waters after rains was called to his } attention and he said that this nigh.
 be .. prolific source of contagion as a,i
 Finds of filth was brought down from the hillsides and drained off by the water.
 On Monday Dr. Shine. comenting o1 i; the conditions stated that he had ex pected to see an increase of the dis, ease when the rains came. He aIsn spoke Of the city proper being mcre free from the disease than heretofore and of it's prevalence in the outlying sections where the sanitary conditions were not so good as in the city. Dr. Shine said the newspaper ar : ticles had their effect in the pass and that he believed that the people
 should be warned through the press ta exercise all care. The house fly and unsanitary conditions as to out houses uncovered cesspools and simila, places. The fact of boys playing :n
 and around stagnant pools was a.s< called to his attention and he also ssac ed that s.sh was practice that the : youngsters should be warned againI Just how many cases of the feve, there are out of the hospitals is at the . present time difficult to determine bai it is certain that there are number
 end very likely ten would be too loa
 an estimate
 | Cleanliness in keeping and prepar ing food, cleanliness of person and sur.
 roundings and ordinary care of healst
 are the best precautionary remedies
 With all the turning up of soil thai there has been about the city thi:
 spring and early summer, a "a with th.
 excess of rainfall which tEere has beer
 9 prevalence of typhoid is 10 be ex Teetea, and it only rema.Es to prevent conditions from growing worse and tn. ' disease frcm becoming epidemic.