Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1910-06-12
IA, SUNDAY MORNING JUNE 12, 1910.

grown people IN MS IOTIN years pTdC-
tice and four of them were in this
city and within the last four months.
DR. r. w. Craig stated that he now
has six cases of typhoid fever, of
which four are in the city of Phoenix;
ne on First street, one on Third street,
one at the hospital and one in the
outh part of town, and every one Of
hem contracted their illness right
here in Phoenix. The other case is
i've miles west of town.
THE country" said the doctor, lis
ull of typhoid. and it is very rapidly
getting into the city"
When told that the facts he gave
were to be used in connection with
plea for a sewer at the earliest posi-
BILE day, he said hop to it. it is an
utrage that we haven't got a good
ever system"
AT the present time | have no ty-
phOid cases" said Dr. John w. Foss;
but let us not imagine that the city
is not in danger from an epidemic Of
this sort There are those who will
tell you that the climatic conditions
here are such that an epidemic of ty-
phoid is impossible 1t is not true.
Our climate undoubtedly reduces the
danger of tlcIh1 an epidemic, but filthy
where under the sun.
we have one source of dissemina-
ton of germs of all sort that even the
heat of summer does not seem to eradi-
cate-and that is the common house
fly. Cultures made from the feet Of
he fly reveal an alarming condition.
The insect carries from one home to
another the bacillus of typhoid, tuber-
ulosis and other diseases. AS long
as open cess pools. closets. uncovered
garbage and filth are permitted to ex-
list the fly will find it's breeding place
here Destroy its breeding place and
ou destroy the fly-Or else teach it to
wipe its feet before coming into the
house.
Our water supply is well safe
guarded from typhoid. The well from
which we get most of our water is. l
hink. 26S feet deep-far enough down
T. eliminate danger from underground
flow of polluted water. The other is
but forty-eight feet deep. but rot much
of our water comes from il.
There is but one real source of
danger and that is the lack of sewer
age facilities. As the town increases
in size the danger viii increase. We
must have an adequate sewerage sys-
EN- at all costs"
Scarlet fever ..............15 cases
Dlphtheria $500 ............ - cases
These cases occurred within the last
twelve months in the practice of DR..
Francis H. RedewiH
"Of the typhoid fever cases" said
DR. Redewill, sixteen originated in
this valley, and nine originated out Of
town and came here to be treated. OF
one family of eight. five had typhoid
fever In this series the welI was only
fifty feet from the cess pool In all
the other cases that originated i'm the
valley with the exception of two, it
vas foynd that drinking water was
taken from wells in close proximity
to cess pools. OF the nine cases out
of town, seven came from places
where typhoid fever was prevalent.
One family after residing a few weeks
in an old country home in the valley.
contracted typhoid fever in two of it's
me mbers. on investigation it was
found that six months previously 9TH
er occupants of that house Swere af-
fected with typhoid fever. The water
of that well was examined in a private
laboratory and typhoid fever germs
were found Since that time the well
water has been examined in each case
of the fever in the country and With
the exception of two cases the germs
were found in all the wells where the
sickness occurred. In the city where
tap water is used of the history of
previous cases fever is found and in
such cases flies swarming around the
cess pools carried the typhoid germs
to the house and the food. Typhoid
fever was found most prevalent in the
fall of the year.
Many of the cases of diphtheria in
the valley are not true diphtheria. ON
examining the scrapngs of the throats
of the thirty two cases. thirteen were
infected by other organisms and had
no tract Of diphtheria bacilli so-called
cases Of pseudo-d -diphtheria. These
cases have the same clinical symptoms
as the true diphtheria cases except
that they are usually more mild. II
was found very difficult to trace the
origin of these cases of pseudo diph-
iberia There were nineteen cases of
true diphtheria thirteen of which cases
occurred in houses where there is no
sewerage-only cess-pOols. 1t has been
repeatedly noticed that in certain in
stances where a house has been rent
ed to one family after another and has
been re- rented three or four times in
one year that members of each fam
lily occupying 1t, have diphtheria while
located there
"The scarlet fever cases almost
without exception were in houses
where there was absolute lack of
drainage, or the sewerage was in a
very faulty condition
City Physician II. X. Beauchamp
was enthusiastically in favor of the
installation of an up-to-date sewerage
system in Phoenix, expressing himself
as firmly believing that the health of
the city would be improved beyond
measure. While he said that typhoid
fever is more often due to the drink
ing of impure water or milk. he knew
that improper sanitation was bound
to bring about unnecessary sickness.
II have had some casessOf typhoid
fever recently. perhaps not so mans
as some other physicians and some of
these may have been due to lack of
proper sewerage" said DR.. Beauchamp
But whether the one disease of typhoid