The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-08-12
g TYPHOID CASES ALL
FROM ONE MODEL DAIRY
Manager Proves to Re Immune
Carrier of Disease in
MOOrcstOwn, \. j..
HAS SCARCELY FELT ILL
Ills Own Children and One OF
Ills Employers Attacked
by Fever.

MooREsTowN y. j., Aug. ll.-One man
innoccntly spread the typhoid epidemic
that has thrown Moorestown and the
ncighboring townships into state OK
terror with its total to-day of thirty
two cases and one death.
This declaration was made this after
noon by Dr. T.. q. Stroud, secretary
and inspector for the local Board of
Health, as showing the results Of
careful investigation by State In
spectors Bowen and Mcdonald.
Soon after their investigation opened
the State experts stated the trouble
was In the milk supply from dairy
farm. For sanitation about the cows.
barns and care in handling and mar
keting milk the farm. strangely enough.
has been one of the best in the county,
according to the local inspectors rec
ords. yet in every case where the fever
has developed the milk from this dairy
had been supplied to that home.
As a final effort to locate the source
of infection the inspectors made blood
tests of all the employees. The report
just received from the State labora
tories the experts say. contains the
solution Of the sudden spread Of the
epidemic.
These reports, according To DR..
Stroud show that the manager at the
dairy farm. an expert dairyman and To
whose efforts the dairy owes its high
official sanitary standard. is what is
known among physicians as typhoid
carrier" rA
His blood shows the typhoid re.
action in virulent FORM said DR..
Stroud. Yet the strange thing about
it is that the man himself has not
known he was i'll. On two recent after
moons. he says. ne did not feel very
well. but attributed it to the heat or
some other minor cause.
He did not even stop working all this
time his system was shedding the germs
that we are now satisfied caused the
epidemic.
THE man. OF course, diu not know
that he possessed this strange. deadly
influence for injecting a whole COM
munity as he worked in the dairy.
Such cases are rare and dairy Is by
I far the most dangerous place in which
/ We could look to discover typhoid
carrier"
His unconscious propensity for diff
! fusing the typhoid bacilli. say the physi-
| clans. was remarkably demonstrated In
his own home. Two Of his children are
now critically i'll with the fever. Two
persons living on the farm have been
taken to the hospital suffering with tn,
fever. and third. also living on the
place. has been stricken with the
I disease.
OF the twenty seven typhoid patients
in Moorestown, health authorities say
that every one was "a consumer of milk
from the dairy. one of the victims is q
son OF the owner of the farm.
with the milk supply from the dair,
shut off and every other dairy unde,
closest observance and with the peopl,
using every precaution to protect them
selves, | believe We have the epidemic
under control" said DR.. Stroud. zone
new case was reported this morning
but residents should not be alarmed II
several cases develop during the nexl
week, as the disease does not show
itself until about a fortnight after in
fection of the patient.
81 would again urge through tbs
public press the necessity for boiling
all water and milk and cooking all fooo
consumed until danger is past
Fifty prominent citizens ATTENDED
the last meeting of the Health Boat
and urged Chairman William B. Lippin
oott and his fellow members to spare
no expense in their efforts To halt th'
epidemic.
Rich residents Of the richest sub
urban town in south Jersey promised
to contribute any amount needed
Typhoid has been far too prevalent II
this section, citizens say. even priol
to the present alarming epidemic, an,
the towns water supply has come in 70
considerable criticism from health au
thorities.
Aroused by the present situation al
Indignation meeting OF citizens ha
been called for tomorrow night to de
mand a different source Of supply thar
that of the upper branch Of the Pen
sauken Creek. tests of the water o
which have shown 1t contains typhoi'
germs in great quantities. a cheap nlte
at the local pumping station fails 4