The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-03
Salt Lake Health Officials Say
Typhoid Is Due to
Negligence.
STATE OFFICERS FAIL TO
REPORT CASES OF DISEASE
Authorities Decide to Bar Dairy
Products From FairNiew
and Indian0la.

Mix and bu;tey from Fairv!cv aud In
dianola in Sanrcic county, arc blamed
by tho city health and food authorities
for much Of The typhoid fcvcr in Salt
Lake CITY.
rai,ricw and Iudisnola milk dealers,
I'm whose families existed cases CT typhoid
fever In large numbers. havo been sup
plying milk and butter 10 Salt Lake CITY
in large quantities for several weeks, and
inssmuch as typhoid bacillus lives in but
ter or milk FOR TWO or three weeks, The
city food and health authorities arc conh-
dent That much Of salt Lakes typhoid
in the last month or so is directly trace
abic TO the stream OF dairy products that
has been coming into Tie city from tho
two typhoid afflicted Sarpctc county
towns
As a result Of the typhoid epidcn1ics at
Fairvtcw and 1ndianola. Ihc city food ana
health authorities have decided TO bar
dairv products from these places from the
city until tho conditions there arc bet
tered. and this morning incoming trains
will he met by city food inspectors ana
milk batter and cream from Fairvicw
and ndiapoa will be excluded from the
city.
Make Inspection Trip,
From outside sources tho city food
and health authorities learned. c,gEt o.
ton DAYS ago, that many eases OF typhoid
fcvcr existed in Fairyicw and lndianola,
and City Food Commissioner Walter j.
Frazier made a trip OF inspection to The
two towns the latter part Of last week.
The conditions he found were alarming
aud revolving.
In Fairyicr; alone Mr. Frazier found
twnnty-too cases of typhoid. Heads Of
eight families in which typhoid existed
we're selling cream 10 the Fanvicw
creamery and dairy. which ships 10 salt
| Lake dealers and wcrc furnishing both
milk and butter direct 10 local dalricS.
There is little or no sanitation. Mr..
Frazier reports, c%crcta from typhoid
which the drainage carries ii into wells
and irrigation bitches and In which milk
cans frequently arc washed. The barns
arc filthy and The corrals arc no ucttor.
There Was little or no diSlnfcction, MIR.
Frazier saws.
In the center of the town Mr.. Frazier
found AN old slaughter house which has
no floor tho blood from Sla au animals be-
Ing allowed 10 serp into The ground and
then into wells or irrigation streams. In
The family uf tho owner OF TINS slaughter
house is ;ypnoid fever,
Some of the dairy products produced
nj fndanola go tn the Falrvlew cicam-
cry. while others come directly 10 this
city. The products brought here are col
tion is made arc stored In dugouts and
in many instances, from the
sccpagc aud other foreign matter, Some
OF tho cream the Falrvicw creamery Will
not accept, but the demand FOR this
product is great in Ogden and Salt
Lake City that much OF the product re
fused by the FairyieW concern is accepted
by the Junction CITY and local dealers,
Human cXcrcta frequently is deposited
in the indianola Irrigation ditcIes in
which milk cans often are dipped. the
city food commissioner SAYS
Soon Mr.. Frazier expects 10 make a
similar inspection OF the dairy supply of
southern Utah. and If typhoid fever cases
in largo numbers are found the supply
there will he treated similarly TO that
of Fairvicw and indignola.
MIR. Frazier also will ask the state
health board TO keep him supplied with
Il list of the typhoid fever cases develop
ing In the territory from which salt Lake
City gels its dairy supply. This will
enable the city health and food depart
mcnts 10 check up on the milk and butter
supply Immediately and reduce danger OF
spread OF contagIon and Infection through
this source,