The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-07-16
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One More Victim.
| t. n. FRASER, whose home Is on Fear
street, Mount Holly, is in the Burlington
County Hospital, sick with typhoid fever
There are other cases of this disease Ii
town-three at least-but that Of Mr.
FRASER is the one to which partisula
Importance attaches. All through thu
winter with the typhoid fever spectre
before us, Mr. and Mrs. Fraiser boiled al
their drinking water until about six weeks
ago when the Mount oily Water Company
issued one of it's statements that the water
was free from contamination, and thus
lulled into feeling of security, they
stopped boiling the water. Mr.. Fraiser ID
down with typhoid fever. He drank the
raw water furnished by the water com.
pany. He did not use ice In the water.
Time after time has the Mount Holly
Water Company been asked to do some
thing to take from over our heads this
suspense and fear of disease that has been
hanging there so long. And the answer
comes, always through B. F. Haywood
ShreYe, president, that something is doing
We are told that the filter was not work
Ing one or two days, but that was RENE
died; the water is muddy and smells rank
and we are told that is because the fire.
plugs are being flushed; we call attention
to certain conditions and we are told that
chemists have been engaged and that they
will experiment, and so on, and 30 on.
Meantime the typhoid fever continues
In our midst and possibly will keep right
on with us while Mr.. Fowler, the engineer
engaged at monthly salary is looking
into some of the surroundings In recent
letter Mr. Shreve says:
ut will be necessary for Mr. Fowler to
study the situation little more carefully
before advising us as to some OF our con-
templated improvements, but he will take
up the matter vigorously snd will be
glad to keep you informed as to the
results"
How nice 1t will be to keep on using
the stuff furnished under the name of
water and to receive reports of progress"
by the engineer. Mr.. Fowler, If we are
not mistaken, is the gentleman who made
survey of our creek at one time, and re-
ported everything all right, and soon
after the local Board of Health went over
the ground and found sources of filth on
the same course that was covered by MI.
Fowler.
We do not want reports. We get
enough of them. We want pure water
Col. Pfeiffer, whose experience in sinking
wells is matter of record, has offered to
get supply of pure water for Mount
Holly, with no charge If his attempt is
unsuccessful, but the water company ap-
pears to prefer to put man on month
ly salary" to experiment, rather than to
take chance In another way.
The Burlington county authorities have
been notified by the State Board OF Health
that the water supplied the county institu-
tons at New Lisbon is not fit to drink
The same body has notified the Pemberton
and Lumberton Water Companies that
their supply is impure If these notifca-
tions are based on actual fact, and they
would not be made otherwise,
why Is 1t that the water at Mount Holly
Is free from contamination
THE News is not actuated by any per-
sonal motive In this matter. We honestly
believe that the water supply at Mount
Holly is impure or to use less elegant
term, is 'rotten." We believe it can be
made better by the introduction of artesian
wells and that 1t will not cost much to try
that experiment, nothing If Col. Pfeiffer
Is sincere. We believe that the health of
the people of this town is of more con-
sequence than the payment of dividends.
The articles published in this paper
have been commended but there is more
than praise needed. There should be a
action to ascertain whether
cannot be done to relieve us
from the danger that is constantly over us
and which not only affects the health OF
Dur citizens but Injuries the good name of
our town. THE News Is willing to do its
share but 1t cannot do 1t all. Get awake
and see what can be done. 1t took an
uprising to secure the filter which was
working at last reports, perhaps is work
ing all right today. Who knows?
Keep the condition of the latest victim
of typhoid fever before you. Remember
be stopped boiling the water and drank
the raw product. Don't you do it. Take
no chances. Boil all of your drinking
water and do not put Ice In 1t. There is
danger In the ice as well as is in the
water.