Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1903 — TYPHOID FEVER EPIDEMIC. [ARTICLE]

TYPHOID FEVER EPIDEMIC.

Over 1,800 Cases In Hutler, Pa. —State Aid Requested. The epidemic of typhoid fever in Butler. Pa., lias assumed alarming proportions. Although Burgess William Kennedy’s appeal for medical aid and nurses was answered promptly by Pittsburg physicians and nurses there is still a large number of fever patients who have not as yet received medical attendance. There are over 1,800 cases of typhoid in Butler nnd included in that number are nearly all of the local physicians. At a mass meeting of citizens $7,000 was subscribed for the relief of those stricken. Money, however, is not all that is needed. More physicians, more nurses nnd several hundred domestics are re quired immediately in order that the great number of sick may be properlylooked after. The State Board of Health hns found that the cause of the typhoid epidemic is due to tiie polluted water used in Butler. The pollution is clearly traceable to the early cases of typhoid fever in close proximity to Shorn Run dam, the reservoir of the Butler Water Company.