Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-08-15
THINGS TALKED ABOUT.

year, at any rate we read of more ty-
phoid that seems usual Perhaps
this is due to the fact that our atten-
tion is directed to it by our own city S
misfortune, but reports do seem more
general than in recent years, at least.
A more seriously afflicted town
than Woodbury. is Moorestown, a viii
lage less than half the size of Wood
bury, in Camden county, with a total
of 81 cases up to last Monday.
The State Board of Health took
the case in hand and has discovered
the source Of contagion to be the fore
man of David Roberts model Dairy.
He has been found to be what is
known as typhoid carrier uncon-
sciousy, but surely His name is Ellis
Kensler. A similar case occurred in
New York some time ago. 1t was
found that in every house where a
certain cook found employment, ty-
phoid developed. She was isolated on
Biackwells Island and frequent tests
showed that she was a typhoid car
rier"
"Kensler's unconscious propensity
for diffusing the typhoid bacilli,' say
the physicians, was remarkably DEM
onstrated around his own home. Two
of his children, Barbara and Daniel,
are now critically i'll with the fever.
Mr. and Mrs Walter Scott, living on
the farm, have been taken to the hos
pital, suffering with typhoid, and Rob
ert Smith, also living on the place,
has been stricken with the disease.
OF the 81 typhoid patients in Moores-
t6o, "
that every one was consumer OF
milk from the diary of which Kens-
Ter was overseer. One of the town
victims is David A. Roberts, son OF
the owner. The young man is crit
ically i'll at his home on Maple ave-
nue.. Miss Rebecca Benner is SO far
the only victim to die from the dis
ease during the epidemic. 4
s***ss
1--WE have had "a good deal of water
TALK in Woodbury. since the outbreak
here some with sense and some nom
sense. There is disposition among
some to change our water supply at
once--over night, and every move OF
Council to make our present supply
safe, is opposed. Now. if Council
should start a new artesian plant to-
morrow a year ~or more must elapse
before the new supply would be flow
ing through the pipes. In the mean
time the present supply should be
given the necessary attention to make
1T safe for at least gear, SUNLIGHT
and air are the two greatest purifiers
known to- science. If our subsldlng
reservoir is not enough to allow our
present supply to become purified, make
another beside it, and run from one
to the other, or why not start an ar
tesian we'll or two at the plant, per-
haps that coud be utilized, at least
some of it could. When we'll in
Camden's system runs dry, we are
told, the pipe is broken at the level
of the Delaware River, and river
water it pumped in Woodbury. could
use all the artesian water few wells
would yield, and help out with
our old supply which at worst is in
finitely purer than Delaware river
water
A river front farmer came to our
office this week and asked What IS
the Mosquito Commission doing%
AS this commission has not adver-
tised it's movements, we gave a mega
tive reply. Said he, This Mosquqlto
Commission can do much to clean
out the mosquito pests, also to for
ward a great public need, by drain
ing the swamps. Originally, these
swamps acted as drainage for the
adjoining low lands, but they have
been filled up year by year until
they have become almost stagnant.
AS a result mosquitoes are bred by
millions, and adjoining lands, long
under profitable cultivation, are be-
coming useless" This subject it
seems to us is right in line OF this
commissions duty
= :
Would-.be Mayor A. L. Rogers, IN
! a communication to a local paper,
charges Council with violating the
law in dividing a $1316 job into
three parts and awarding contracts in
sums of $49S, $494 and 1924 The
$1316 expenditure was made neces-
sary to give the city the benefit OF
the subsiding reservoir at the pump
! ing station, and we understand the
/ work was done In June. we ao hoe
propose to defend Council for any
! Illegal act,~but we do commend them
/ for repairing the subsiding reser-
voir with all the expedition possible,
and making a real effort to make our
polluted water as healthful as our
| facilities, when at their best, permit
And we want to further commend
Council for giving the work to one OF
| the most reliable contractors OF the
/ county, a man who would not DO q
botch job nor take advantage OF any
body who employed him. II condl-
tions had been normal in Wood
! bury, Council would probably not
even considered whipping the devil
round the stump, in this or any
other way,
Moorestown is rather worse than
| Woodbury. in the matter OF typhoid
4 fever, as it is reported that they have
had seventeen cases in the pas
eighteen days. The water works
there is owned by private corpora
tion and the people are anxious te