With an outbreak of typhoid fever, said Dr. Levy, "we always look first toward the water as a source of the trouble, and strongly inclined to the belief that some of the cases of typhoid in the city may have been due to infection from drinking water, and have thought so from the very outset. That was why I, a young set about the work of bringing it to the highest possible state of purification."
Dr. Levy is equally certain that all of the cases were not caused by water. One group of cases was traced directly to a soda-water fountain. Four others, it was found upon investigation, became infected at a camp near the city. Several trained nurses have been stricken with the disease through nursing patients who contracted it out of town and were brought here for treatment.
The fever is not confined to any one locality, but cases have developed in practically every section of the city. Had the city water supply been contaminated, it is pointed out, there would now exist hundreds where there are dozens of cases.
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