The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-19
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TYPHOID CASES
City and State Health Officials
Join in a Concerted
Movement.
TO INSPECT ALL DIARIES
DR.. BEATTY BELIEVES FLIES
CONTRIBUTE TO CONTAGlON.

Another days black record Cs fifteen
typhoid fever cases was reported to
the city board of health yesterday and
brought the city, county and state
health officials together in a concerted
movement to protect the milk con5una-
ers of salt Lake City. and to insist that
physicians of salt Lake report typhoid
cases to the city board of health when
they are discovered.
It is believed that typhoid germs in
milk has caused some of the cases, and
that flies have spread the balance. The
addition of fifteen cases yesterday in
creased the total for the week to sixty
four. and established a new record for
Salt Lake II made a total of thirty
seven for Friday and Saturday, and has
thrown the city health officials into con-
stenatiCn.
While other members Of the city
health commissioners staff have been
working night and day in an effort to
control the typhoid epidemic, DR.. NJ. R.
Stewart, city health commissioner, has
not turned a hand i'm the matter and
has left the whole matter to his assist
ant, Dr. G.. II. Paul, and chief clerk.
James +. Flynn. These two. with Wal
ter J. Frazier city food and dairy com
missioner have done the bulk Of work
up to date. and Yesterday appealed to
To Inspect Diaries.
Willard Hansen. state food and dairy
commissioner, viii work with the city
commissioner in inspecting the diaries
which furnish milk to consumers in Salt
Lake. The CITY commissioner has taken
the name OF the milku8n in each case
where q typhoid victim has been found,
and these viii be run down by the dairy
Rotary of the state board Of health. has
also been brought into the fight and VIII
work with other officials in the matter.
While the bulk Of the cases reported
No to yesterday were on the northeast
bench, the new ones are scattered all
over the city. in many cases physicians
reported typhoid cases yesterday which
have been treated by them for weeks.
Saturdays New Gases.
The fifteen new cases reported SatuT-
day are:
Mrs. Selma Johnson. aged Sc, rear Il
South Fifth West street.
Marie St9ndish, eyed Z. 116 East Sixth
South street
J. T. Jones, aged l3, 23l South Third
East street.
Phyllis Adams. aged 10. 1o15 Garfield
avenue.
Mrs. L. Nagle. aged 10. rear 49, South
Fifth East street.
Mrs. II. waldo, aged IS, 20 Ounce
street
Thomas Bond, aged Il, $50 South
Ninth East street.
Margaret AIcCabe, aged A., rear 354
South First West street.
Frank Dunford. aged 80, 1910 Indiana
avenue.
Rose Feltman, aged IS, $50 First ave
nue..
Andrew s. Gray. aged 10. 50 Third
avenue.
Herman Gall. aged Is. corner Of Sixth
West and Tenth South streets.
Jessie Pratt. aged 6. 301 Center street
Miss Sconberg, aged 20, 1876 Wall
street.
clara wanless. aged 16, 946 West
Fourth South street.
Beatty Issues Statement.
DIT. T. B. Beatty believes that flies are
more responsible for the spread of the
disease in the present instance than the
milk. In a report on the deaths from
typhoid for August of this year, as COM
pared to the same month q year ago,
Dr. Beatty issued the following state
ment Yesterday
Tt is gratifying 10 note the reduction
I'm the number of reported deaths from
typhoid fever compared with those Of
the same month i'm past years. 1t is
reasonable to assume that at least
part of this reduction is due to the more
general recognition Of the agency Of
flies i'm the spread of the disease and the
measures adopted to destroy them and
exclude them from houses. Continued
warfare should be Waged against these
dangerous pests, and especial precau-
tons taken to exclude them from sick
rooms.
"Flies which have become contami-
mated with typhoid germs are Darticu-
laTly liable 10 convey them to milk,
either at q dairy before it is distributed,
thus endangering many consumers. or
IN the home when not properly protect
ed. Cases of typhoid fever which occur
on the premises of a dairy or in the vi
cinity Of a dairy seriously menace the
health and lives of all who use the milk
therefrOm; and not only should the dis
charges from such cases be thoroughly
disinfeCted, but the contents OF the ont
houses used as a receptacle for them
should be kept covered with uusaked
lime Neglect of these precautions is
responsible for much of the spread of
the disease.
THE milk supply should be investi-
gated in all cases of typhoid fever re-
ported, and the Investigation should in
Clude an inquiry as 20 the present or
past existence OF typhoid fever at anv
place in the neighbOrhoOd of the dairy.