Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1898 — CAMP ALGER WATER. [ARTICLE]

CAMP ALGER WATER.

Its Whalcsomeaes* a Matter of Dispute Between Army Officers. The fear of typhoid still prevails in Camp Alger, and Majors Pnrke and Devine, acting surgeons, have been investigating conditions tending to produpe this malady. One of these surgeons said that “one patient could put the whole camp on its back.” The water supply is looked upon as the principal source of danger. Some of the wells are sunk to a depth of sixty-five or seventy feet, but it is said to be possible for the germ of typlioiu to reach that depth, owing to the sandy nature of the soil. The surgeons making this investigation say that if when their report is made Chief Surgeon Girard persists in holding that the water is pure they will forward their report to the war department. General Gobin has promised to see that this is doue in case Colonel Girard maintains his position. A special commission has been appointed to investigate conditions in the quarters of the New York cavalry, which now has five men at Fort Meyer suffering with typhoid. Complaint is made that the government has supplied uo lime or other disinfectants.