The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-02
|F0nTY-E|GhT CASES
OF TYPHOID IN CITY
No Occasion for Alarm, Says DIR. Levy
Preventive IL
Provided.
SEVEN CASES Yesterday;
MAKING SIS SINCE JULY
More Than Year Ago But Not so
Many as i'm Former Summers-Epi-
deniic Talk Not Substantiated.

Though there are now 4s cases OF
typhoid fever In the city of Rich
mond, DR.. c. e Levy, chief health
officer Of the city. docs not regard
the situation as alarming. The mum
Der or cases reported since July /.
with seven cases reported to the
Health Department yesterday, totals
90, figure greater than that Of July
one year ago, but smaller than the
figure OF former years.
There ia no appearance Of cpl
demic In Richmond at this time" said
DR.. Levy last night. Conditions in
Washington and Norfolk are more
serious than here. Here there liz
nothing to be unduly alarmed about,
though precauti onary measures should
he taken
The chief health officer warns all
citizens TO do everything toward pre-
venting the spread of typhoid. There
is nothing in the report that typoid
Is epidemic in any one section--eIther
business or residential, Many big con-
Germs in the business sections are
advising their attaches to take the
Sf'"IiSi itAiicdy az precautionary
measure.
Two Cases Among Bankers.
Following the death of y. r. Watt
assistant cashier Of the National State
and city Bank. who succumb bed early
Monday TO typhoid and the report
ing of Thomas p, McAdams, vice
president and cashier of the Mer-
chants National. and of FYtzhugh c..
IAfferty, clerk In that bank. as suffer
ing typhoid there was considerable
furry in banking circles yesterday.
Another clerk in the Merchants Ma
tlonal. Cahell Brockenborough was re-
ported as having been stricken, but
extended inquiry sh owed that typhoid
is not his ailment.
There are now two cases of bank
representatives among the forty-eight
prevailing in the city. There is
nothing. the City Health Department
has SO far found, beyond coincidence
in these cases
preventive is Provided.
Acting on the advice of DIR. Sum
mers, city medical inspector. Colonel
Julien II. Hill. cashier of the National
State and City Bank, yesterday stat
ed that the bank will provide that all
employes-there are about 45-of the
National State and City may take tbs
dHll-iypnOld vaccine without cost IL
themselves, The action OF the banl
leads the Health Department to be
lieve that other large employers O
labor Will follow the example ant
permit employees to be inoculatet
with the preventive
DR.. Levy says that the health de
partmenth as a supply of the vacoin'
which viii be furnished at moderat,
cost to physicians to whom applica
ton for incubation Is made by thos
who wish TO become immune TIL
| incubation means immunity from ty
phoid for at least Ave years
Any person who desires to take tn
preventive course and who cannot nf
ford TO pay the moderate charge mad
by his physician may appear at healt
department headquarters, fourth foo
City Hail. and receive the vaccinatIo
against typhoid. All Richmond pee
4 PIE may be protected by preventiv
means provided by the health depart
ment. there is no danger OF epidemic
/ Inquiry is being made to determin
the cause and the source of the pres
/ ent prevalence.