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170 NOKTII CAROLINA BOARD OK HEALTH. TYPHOID FEVER FROM IMPURE DRINKING WATER AT WILMINGTON. BY GEORGE G. THOMAS, M. D., PRESIDENT N. C. BOARD OF HEALTH. On the night of the 28th of November hist a number of young ladies and gentlemen attended a dance at Grermania Hall in Wilmington—an impromptu gathering, which was intended as an entertainment of the members of the foot-ball team which had played a match game in that city in the afternoon preceding the dance. The regular janitor of the hall was absent and a careless and ignorant man was put in his place. A half block below the entrance of hall is a dock in the river into which empties a server, draining the closets and waste water of eight or ten blocks. From this dock it appears probable that the water was taken near the point of the wharf, a distance from the mouth of the sewer of about twenty feet, and where the sewerage mixes with the river stream. It is likewise asserted that there was in the cooler into which this river water w^as poured for use, some water that had been in this receptacle since last April. The janitor on the occasion admits that he brought uj) some water from the river, but says that it was used to do washing about the hall, and he asserts that the drinking water was ol)tained from a driven pump in the next block, in the yard of Mr. Haar. AVithin a week after the dance three young ladies and one gentleman were taken sick. Two more young inen sickened within the three weeks following the dance, and we give a brief summary of the cases as best we can below. 1. Miss D., aged 20, was taken sick three days after the dance, and her physician thought she had an attack of influenza. On the fifth day there were marked typhoid symptoms, notably a persistently high temperature. She had a slight diarrha^a and tym-j)any, l)ut there was intense headache, attended at first by hebetude, later by delirium. On the thirteenth day pneumonia developed, and intestinal hemorrhage occuring on the sixteenth day brought on tlie fatal issue. 2. MissH., aged 11). Had an entero colitis beginning the day after the dance. This vielded to treatment and in a few davs she was up, and attended during the week the following two entertainments. About ten days after the first attack she was seized with fever, of a marked typhoid character, but promising to be mild. The fever declined I'apidly and was immediately followed by a gastritis. This, in tarn, was checkcd by rectal feeding and appropriate medication. As soon as the patient was allowed to take food by the mouth, a duodenitis was declared compli-
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-01: Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Health [1879-1908] |
Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Heath [1879-1908] |
Subject Name | North Carolina. State Board of Health -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina. |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : News & Observer, 1881-1909. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1895-1896 |
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Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Heath [1879-1908] |
Subject Name | North Carolina. State Board of Health -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina. |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : News & Observer, 1881-1909. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1895-1896 |
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Volume Number | 6 |
Page Number | 136 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 170 NOKTII CAROLINA BOARD OK HEALTH. TYPHOID FEVER FROM IMPURE DRINKING WATER AT WILMINGTON. BY GEORGE G. THOMAS, M. D., PRESIDENT N. C. BOARD OF HEALTH. On the night of the 28th of November hist a number of young ladies and gentlemen attended a dance at Grermania Hall in Wilmington—an impromptu gathering, which was intended as an entertainment of the members of the foot-ball team which had played a match game in that city in the afternoon preceding the dance. The regular janitor of the hall was absent and a careless and ignorant man was put in his place. A half block below the entrance of hall is a dock in the river into which empties a server, draining the closets and waste water of eight or ten blocks. From this dock it appears probable that the water was taken near the point of the wharf, a distance from the mouth of the sewer of about twenty feet, and where the sewerage mixes with the river stream. It is likewise asserted that there was in the cooler into which this river water w^as poured for use, some water that had been in this receptacle since last April. The janitor on the occasion admits that he brought uj) some water from the river, but says that it was used to do washing about the hall, and he asserts that the drinking water was ol)tained from a driven pump in the next block, in the yard of Mr. Haar. AVithin a week after the dance three young ladies and one gentleman were taken sick. Two more young inen sickened within the three weeks following the dance, and we give a brief summary of the cases as best we can below. 1. Miss D., aged 20, was taken sick three days after the dance, and her physician thought she had an attack of influenza. On the fifth day there were marked typhoid symptoms, notably a persistently high temperature. She had a slight diarrha^a and tym-j)any, l)ut there was intense headache, attended at first by hebetude, later by delirium. On the thirteenth day pneumonia developed, and intestinal hemorrhage occuring on the sixteenth day brought on tlie fatal issue. 2. MissH., aged 11). Had an entero colitis beginning the day after the dance. This vielded to treatment and in a few davs she was up, and attended during the week the following two entertainments. About ten days after the first attack she was seized with fever, of a marked typhoid character, but promising to be mild. The fever declined I'apidly and was immediately followed by a gastritis. This, in tarn, was checkcd by rectal feeding and appropriate medication. As soon as the patient was allowed to take food by the mouth, a duodenitis was declared compli- |
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Article Title | Typhoid Fever from Impure Drinking Water at Wilmington |
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