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who were sick had had nothing to do with the foot ball 

 suits, and they were of necessity ruled out. 



Naturally one of the first objects of suspicion, after 

 the disease had been located among the members of the 

 three fraternities, was the table of the clubs. An exam- 

 ination was immediately made into the sources of supply 

 of these three fraternities. All of them used the city 

 water, which, of course, made it impossible to accuse the 

 water as a source of the typhoid, there being no cor- 

 responding fever in town. The milk supply of the three 

 fraternities was also ruled out by several facts. The 

 three fraternities were supplied by two diff'erent milk 

 men, and each of these milk men supplied one or more of 

 the other fraternities in college, as well as a large num- 

 ber of customers in town. Moreover, upon inquiry it 

 was learned that these milk men had not exchanged milk 

 with each other, and that they lived at a distance of sev- 

 eral miles from each other outside of the city. No cases 

 of typhoid fever could be located in or near either of the 

 milk farms as having occurred within the last six months. 

 It was, therefore, impossible to accuse the milk. In the 

 same way all the other articles of food used by the fra- 

 ternities were investigated without success. The three 

 fraternities did not have the same grocer nor the same 

 butcher nor the same butter supply, nor did they obtain 

 fruits from the same sources ; and wherever in regard to 

 any article of food it was found that there was a point 

 of likeness between the three fraternities, it was found 

 at once that the other fraternities in college shared with 

 them in having the same source of supply. After care- 

 fully inquiring into every article of diet used on the or- 

 dinary table, it was found necessary to exclude the table 

 as a source of infection. The attempt was then made to 

 find some special unusual article of food that had been 

 used during the fall by the three fraternities but it was 

 impossible to do so. 



