Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-22
TYPHOID BROUGHT
HERE BY PERSONS
OFF ON VACATION
Health Officer Chandler Says
Impure Water Elsewhere
Causes Disease.

While the number of recorded cases
of typhoid fever in the city is not
greater than last year, 1t is great
enough to prompt Health officer David
D. Chandler to caution all persons to
be careful of the water they drink
while out of town.
The months of August, September
and October are the typhoid months;
the disease being due, largely. to the
consumption of water by vacationists
in places where the water is impure
and where Anticipated sewerage sys-
TENS prevail. These may be found in
country places, as well as at the sea-
shore.
The number of cases reported thus
far this month are twenty-five. Last
month there were twenty-eight. Au-
gust of last year has a record OF
forty-two cases, September twenty
five, n October twenty-four.
Most of these cases can be traced to
those that returned from their vaca-
tions, in the mountains or seashore,
where they drank from wells and
mountain streams. The kind of milk
consumed in these places is also re-
sponsible for the disease.
Education Is the Remedy.
Mr.. Chandler was asked to give his
opinion on the causes of typhoid and
what he considered would be the rem
edy. He said:
Education is the only remedy. Peo-
pie should be careful of the water and
milk they drink, n I would advise
vaccination. Not only should the vaca-
tionists and children be careful. but
also the drummers and travelling men
that are forced to drink all kinds Of
water in all sorts of places. If the
water in all cities was as absolutely
pure as the water in Newark there
would be few, If any cases of typhoid.
Unfortunately the water In some other
cities is not pure.
Take the case of a country town or
a farm house that has a we'll supply.
The well may be impure, yet because
the parents n grandparents of the
owners of the place drank from that
well lit is next to impossible to con-
vince them that it should be abandoned.
Then, also, the milk. in these places
may be impure for this reason. Often
times the sewage empties into brooks
and streams In which the COWS are
permitted to wade and where, some
times, the milk cans are allowed to
cool. These places are disease breeders.
but because the source of the disease
Is hard to trace the average person
pays no attention to the repeated words
of caution given out by health au-
thorities.
Our jurisdiction does not take us
beyond the city limits, and for that
reason we annot make Investigations
in the various summer resorts from
which persons return with the disease
IN their systems. Then, too, people
cannot always account for their where
abouts when questioned.
Many Get Germs on Outing,
"A person may take a trip to the
s~eashore, and, because it was only a
days excursion, they will not say hat
they have been out of town. My ad-
vice would be to those thai go away
to regain health or to seek pleasure
is that they investigate the source of
the water n milk supply, and, II 1t Is
at all suspicious, leave 1t alone. There
are substitutes for water, and distilled
or charged water can be gotten almost
anywhere"
1t was explained by the health de-
partment that an examination of the
blood of patients supposed to be suf-
fering from typhoid Is made in the
laboratory of the city by DIR. Connolly,
but out of nine cases this month only
two we're suspicious. In some cases
the blood of a patient that has suffered
cannot be called a positive test, because
the blood of a patient that hus suffered
from typhoid as long as ten years ago
Will still show traces of the disease"