Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1902 — TYPHOID IS EPIDEMIC [ARTICLE]

TYPHOID IS EPIDEMIC

Indianapolis Has More of the Disease Than Is Usual or Comfortable. DOCTORS DO NOT REPORT OASES Healers Bhut Out l>y h Supreme Court ■Jfe Decision—New Hailway Incorporated—Notee. Indiana polls, Oct. I).—Typhoid fever Is epidemic in Indianapolis. The health authorities are unable to check Its progress. They are hampered hy the failure of physicians to report cases. Numerous uurcporterl eases have been discovered in the hospitals. There is a rule of the city health lasird, based on one of the state statutes, providing a penalty of $lO to if 1(H) line for failure to report typhoid, smallpox, cfioftTivyacnrToT fevCr, diphtheria, ceretin) spinal meningitis or measles. There Is a possibility of prosecutions. The hospitals also have failed 4e report raises. Epldemir Have in title*. v Typhoid lias been prevalent all over the country this fall. Frequent rains and resultant high water are in a measure responsible, luu there seems to lmve been a wave of the disease that spread to most of the large cities. Indianapolis has trot suffered as much as some others. There have been 21 Hi raises reported this year, while there were only 105 up to this time last year, and only lOO'in all of last year. The annexation of Irvington and Tuxedo increased the number that would come to the city health board, but it does not account for so large an increase rropaifHtcd l»> the Milk ? All the hospitals .-have been notified j that they will be held responsible for prompt reports hereafter. Physicians are being given similar notices, in one home where three eases were discovered it was found that the dairy men who supplied tlap family with milk had a child ill with typhoid. He lived in the country, so the health board could not condemn his well when it was found that the water con tallied germs, but. he was notified of its impurity. There was no direct allowing that he had been putting the water In milk, but the health men have Ideas of their own on the subject. A 1.1. HEALERS MUST BE M. IPS. Indiana Law lo Tlml KlTecl. Studnint-d hy a ; IlcrUlim of the Supreme Court. Indianapolis. Oct. V).—lSy unanimous derision of the Indiana supreme court Tuesday the law of lt>ol defining the practice of medicine will be declared j constitutional, and the powers of the j courts to enforce-it against all persons who attempt to practice without a license was fully sustained. The ease j came up from Lawrence county, where Professor George Parks was arrested /or practicing without a license, having treated a hoy who is a cripple by what is known as magnetic healing. The court upholds onl\ reputable* schools of medicine, and decides against the 'practice es Christian Science oi healing by faith. The state board of examination and registration will proceed at filin' against that class under tin <b cislpn

Tried t«. Burn Ills mii( <*. J* ITemmvilU*. lml.. Oct. H An un--Bucc< sKful attempt "ms nimlf to burn the plant of the .Icftorsormllt Weekly Mail, owned l>\ I'. E I ‘ouu'tn ft \ w cam*" hero from S< llersvllie Tlotu i*. evidence of meomliarish . coni oil ha\ }ng been scattered ovei the first and second floors of the Lulldltii: nod dowi the elevator shaft A match was up piled at two different places In the rel !ar Dougin rty has been eegngt*<l in a political fight foi several weeks

NfW ItHllUHt I*l t»j*M »«•<!. Indlamipolis, Oet '■> The Fort Wayne and. Kmithwesteru Railroad company was ineorporaled here venter day with sl23,i'o<» capital stock. The company is to construct a line from Indianapolis In Hieksville, on the Ohio state line, a distance of 124 miles. The directors art* Imtiana and Ohio mi*tt. The road will run through the northwesiern counties of Indiana.

Had Taken Carbolic Arid. Imllamipolis, Oet s*.-Harry Robinson. aged 35 years, whose home is 7 South Main street., Sharon. Pa., was found lying by the side of the road near Irvington, a suburb He was unconscious from a large* dose of carbolic acid, lie was taken to the city hospital and Is in a very critical condltton. Ph> sicislns say he cannot live. lie was well dressed