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The Hays Free Press
Hays, Ellis County, Kansas
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Neglect in health supervision in Lawrence, Kansas, allowed typhoid germs, introduced by infected travelers from Colorado in May, to spread via dairies, flies, and wells, causing 4 deaths and 50 cases among university students this fall. State health officials recommend a full-time health officer; Chamber of Commerce forms committee.
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Carelessness Allowed Germs of Typhoid to Spread to University, Says Dr. Sippy.
The new Lawrence Chamber of Commerce has been stirred into activity by the statements from state health authorities that lack of proper health supervision there was the cause of four preventable deaths among Kansas university students this fall.
Dr. Sippy, state epidemiologist, addressing the Lawrence business men, told how the germs of typhoid which caused not only the deaths, but a total of fifty cases in Lawrence, were introduced into the community.
"It is a story of neglect that I have to tell," Dr. Sippy said. "A man and boy, searching for work in Colorado last May, drank infected water and returned with the typhoid to Lawrence. Traveling from person to person by various means in which dairies, flies and contaminated wells played their part, the disease reached the university section resulting in the four fatalities."
Dr. S. J. Crumbine, secretary of the state board of health, recommended an action to secure a full-time health officer there, and the Chamber of Commerce immediately appointed a committee to help bring this about.
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Lawrence, Kansas
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This Fall; Last May
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four preventable deaths among kansas university students; total of fifty cases
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A man and boy contracted typhoid from infected water in Colorado last May and brought it to Lawrence, where it spread via dairies, flies, and contaminated wells, reaching the university section and causing four fatalities and fifty cases due to neglect in health supervision.