THE TYPHOID FLY 



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Iron Eange, we are depicting conditions which are found practically 

 over its entire length, and if the name of any town is mentioned, and 

 pictures thrown on the screen illustrating unhygienic conditions in con- 

 nection with any town or towns, it must be borne in mind that these 

 are not the only towns, and the Iron Eange not the only locality in 

 Minnesota where conditions favorable for a typhoid epidemic exist. 



The above-named aliens, who work with pick and shovel, are low 

 in the social scale, most of them densely ignorant, the greater number 

 of extremely unclean habits, fatalistic in their views, and more or less 

 suspicious of well-meant overtures. The workmen in the employ of 

 the stripping companies, firms who contract with the mining com- 

 panies to remove the soil covering the ore, are composed of the same 

 nationalities as those employed by the latter companies, and live in 

 much the same conditions. 



A manager of one of the stripping companies remarked, speaking 

 of the Austrians, that they would not raise a hand to clean their houses 

 or other surroundings; they will submit to having it done for them 

 by the company, but soon revert to the more primitive and, to them, 

 more pleasant state. 



The Austrians, as the term is broadly used on the range, including 

 the Hungarians and people coming from the small principalities in and 



Same Barn as preceding Figure, showing the unsanitary condition of the 

 entrance. The photographer endeavored to wade the manure holes and sunk to his 

 knees in the water and manure. 



