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118 Document ]^o. 19. [Session
standing from the day before, and pour it in bis rinsing pan. It is tbe
habit of the negro to do tbe thing that is the easiest, and in this case
it was much more convenient to dip water out of the concrete trough
than it was to get it from the concrete well. Immediately below tbe
barn is a large pig-pen, the drainage from which and from tbe rinsing
of the bottles runs into a low place where some cows were drinking
and wallowing about.
At Mr. Watkins' lower dairy the water supply comes from a well
about twenty feet deep, the water being elevated by two buckets and
a rope operated over a wheel. Within 60 feet of the well is a house
occupied by a family of negroes, one of the children being sick with
fever at the time of our inspection. His mother said he had been
sick for over a week. There were no sanitary arrangements provided
for this house, the yard being used for a privy. This well supplied
water for washing the cans and cooling the milk.
Mr. Dotger furnishes the ice-cream man with practically all of his
milk, supplementing his own supply with that of his neighbor, Mr.
Gulp. The two milk about eighty-three cows. Mr. Dotger washes all
of the milk cans for both farms. His house where the milk is bottled
is located very close to his well and all of the wash water runs upon
the surface within six feet of this well and disappears. It is a pipe
well, 86 feet deep. The cans were actually being scalded while we
were there, but they are always rinsed with cold water before being
filled again with milk.
5. Elisabeth College.—The opinion frequently expressed to me by
city officials and others was that the trouble at Elizabeth College origi-nated
from defective plumbing; and as a great many people, includ-ing
many physicians, believed that most of these cases came from
this cause, it may be well to state briefly tbe nature and causes of
typhoid fever.
"Typhoid fever is so called because it resembles, and was not
formerly distinguishable from, typhus fever, otherwise known as
'ship,' 'jail,' or 'spotted' fever. • It is characterized by slow and insid-ious
onset during a period lasting for about two weeks, during which
the patient generally suffers from severe frontal headache, often
having in addition backache, nosebleed, diarrhea and a general loss
of strength, which finally, in severe cases, compels him to take to bis
bed. By this time active fever is well established, tbe temperature
ranging from 100 to 105 degrees or even higher, and characterized by
a daily rise in the evening and a fall in the morning.
"During the period of active sickness, which usually lasts from
four to eight weeks, delirium sometimes occurs, and other serious
symptoms make their appearance. It is a characteristic of the dis-ease,
and one which distinguishes it from typhus fever, that in
typhoid fever the small intestines undergo more or less extensive
and dangerous ulcerations; and inasmuch as these ulcers burrow
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| Full Text | 118 Document ]^o. 19. [Session standing from the day before, and pour it in bis rinsing pan. It is tbe habit of the negro to do tbe thing that is the easiest, and in this case it was much more convenient to dip water out of the concrete trough than it was to get it from the concrete well. Immediately below tbe barn is a large pig-pen, the drainage from which and from tbe rinsing of the bottles runs into a low place where some cows were drinking and wallowing about. At Mr. Watkins' lower dairy the water supply comes from a well about twenty feet deep, the water being elevated by two buckets and a rope operated over a wheel. Within 60 feet of the well is a house occupied by a family of negroes, one of the children being sick with fever at the time of our inspection. His mother said he had been sick for over a week. There were no sanitary arrangements provided for this house, the yard being used for a privy. This well supplied water for washing the cans and cooling the milk. Mr. Dotger furnishes the ice-cream man with practically all of his milk, supplementing his own supply with that of his neighbor, Mr. Gulp. The two milk about eighty-three cows. Mr. Dotger washes all of the milk cans for both farms. His house where the milk is bottled is located very close to his well and all of the wash water runs upon the surface within six feet of this well and disappears. It is a pipe well, 86 feet deep. The cans were actually being scalded while we were there, but they are always rinsed with cold water before being filled again with milk. 5. Elisabeth College.—The opinion frequently expressed to me by city officials and others was that the trouble at Elizabeth College origi-nated from defective plumbing; and as a great many people, includ-ing many physicians, believed that most of these cases came from this cause, it may be well to state briefly tbe nature and causes of typhoid fever. "Typhoid fever is so called because it resembles, and was not formerly distinguishable from, typhus fever, otherwise known as 'ship,' 'jail,' or 'spotted' fever. • It is characterized by slow and insid-ious onset during a period lasting for about two weeks, during which the patient generally suffers from severe frontal headache, often having in addition backache, nosebleed, diarrhea and a general loss of strength, which finally, in severe cases, compels him to take to bis bed. By this time active fever is well established, tbe temperature ranging from 100 to 105 degrees or even higher, and characterized by a daily rise in the evening and a fall in the morning. "During the period of active sickness, which usually lasts from four to eight weeks, delirium sometimes occurs, and other serious symptoms make their appearance. It is a characteristic of the dis-ease, and one which distinguishes it from typhus fever, that in typhoid fever the small intestines undergo more or less extensive and dangerous ulcerations; and inasmuch as these ulcers burrow |
