Bisbee daily review., 1909-10-06
SHOWS AN EXCELLENT
 RECORD


 DOUGLAS, Oct B. Special. )-,
 That sanitary conditions are better in Douglas than in other cities and towns of Cochise county is evident from the statistics of typhoid fever ot the past summer and present fall. While such a state of affairs and the improvement over the past is most en- couraging it also appears that condi- tions are not yet perfect by any means from the sanitary point of view. Move ment for perfection of sanitary sys- tenn is continuing and results in the. future will surely show the benefit of, such work.
 Germs Always Present.
 In any community whether it be a city, town, mining camp or military camp. the typhoid germ is always present in the intestines of some of the members of such community Such persons may have recuperated from an attack of the disease and yet not | thrown of all of the germs or 1t may be that the physical condition of those people are such that they have the germs with them but are able to void i them without being down with the dis ease. Whenever such germs are void ed, if they get into drinking water or are carried by flies to food and are taken into the system of others who are not physically able to throw them of typhoid cases must result. And as the germs of the disease are carried to the drinking water or food of others from the excrement of the already dis eased so typhoid spreads.
 Total is Nineteen.
 i There have been in this city since what may be termed the typhoid sea son commenced this year nineteen cases which originated in Douglas, the cases which were brought from out ot the city for treatment here not being included. This showing is an excel lent one when one considers that in Bisbee there have been at one time from thirty to forty cases. And in ! other cities and towns too the percen- age of typhoid is far in excess of the Douglas summer record.
 The first case of the season came in June at Fifteenth street and F av- enue and later two other cases deveI- oped. With the first case health ot- fcer Dr. Greene examined into con ditions and found open outhouses and cesspools. It was found impossible to serve notice on the owner of the prop erty who is said to be a rancher up | the valley somewhere who comes in from time to time to collect his ren- I tals. After the second case John Doe warrants were issued and when the third case appeared the nuisance was abated by filling up and covering over the outhouse pits and cesspools.
 Sewer Connection Necessary.
 How many other cases from this source it is impossible to tell for the house fly is migratory and carries the germs to some considerable distances but it can safely be said that every case in the city has been the result of non-connection with the sewer of some premises.
 | The health officials are working for general sewer connections and the faster these are made the sooner will Douglas be practically exempt from typhoid fever, a filthy and repellant disease, especially repellant when one considers the only source from which the disease can be contracted. By an 5ther year the sewer connections will oe still further connected and with 9 reasonable amount of care by citizens, in their own homes and grocers and butchers in their establishment the 1910 record for typhoid fever in the city should be further appreciably re- duced over that of the present year.