New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-31
LAY TYPHOID OUTBREAK
TO CAMPS AND RESORTS
Health Official Says Vacation.
lists Are Bringing Disease
to This City.
1,O25 CASES IN 50 DAYS
Department Figures Show an
Increase of 297 Over Last
Year - Twenty-si
More Deaths.

| In seven weeks and four days time
/ 1925 cases of typhoid fever have been
reported to the Health Department from
all boroughs Of the city, as against IDS
during the same period in 1910. or an
Increase Of 297 cases. For the seven
weeks in 1911 there were 112 deaths, as
against Sc for the same period last year.
With 1O4 cases reported in the las.
four days it is looked upon as possible
that by the end of the week there will
be as many as If not more than last
week. when 143 cases were reported.
An official of the department who Is
keeping close watch on the typhoid sit
doubt that many of the cases had been
brought to the city from camps and
other resort centres.
Many vacationists," he said. have
unpleasant weather conditions. Cases
contracted at the unsanitary camps and
summer resorts are beginning TO in
crease perceptibly. Taken in .connec-
tlon with the outbreak that has been
prevalent here for some weeks past
there Is nothing in the situation that
need cause worry. The increase is not
one to warrant alarm"
A strange feature of the present cpl
demic is shown in the statistics for the
last four days. OF the 1O4 cases re-
ported during that time only I were
reported on Monday. on Tuesday there
was a jump to Al cases. nearly six
times as many. Yesterday it went down
to -.
The water supply has an absolutely
clean bill of health, so far as the cpl
demic is concerned. To the defective
milk supplies in Manhattan, which are
now believed to be shut off. are those
cases in that borough attributed. In
The Bronx the elimination of milk and
water as causes has brought the atten-
ton of the department inspectors down
to finding the breeding places Of flies.
So far the Roman Catholic Orphan Asy-
lum in The Bronx is the only institution
In that borough where an epidemic has
developed. There have been thirty-fve
cases and no deaths reported from the
asylum, but more cases are under sus-
picion.
According 10 the Health Department
II has been more difficult to trace the
- this fha n
last.
"It was almost dramatic the way the
department inspectors discovered one or
the principal sources of typhoid on a
farm in Vermont last summer" said an
official Yesterday "Since the present
outbreak began the inspectors have not
been able to trace the source so easily
At the beginning Of the present sum-
mer Commissioner Lederle warned per-
sons about TO go to camps and summer
resorts that the greatest care should be
taken. He cautioned persons against
eating unripe fruits and the use of water
or milk where there was any doubt as
IN sanitary conditions. For several years
back the Health Department has en-
deavored 10 lower the number OF cases
contracted at summer resorts. Tne
state Health Department has during
that time sought 10 ferret out all the
unsanitary places in this state.
There is little prospect for below
normal typhoid condition in the next
month or more, in so far as the cases
contracted outside of the city are con-
cerned.