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1895.] Document No. 20. 187
good results will spread if the earnest people will persevere in doing
what is right. Don't pour kitchen slops on the ground; don't allow
decaying parings of vegetables or other garbage to accumulate about the
premises. If no other means for their disposal is at hand, put them
away from the house and covering each day's deposit with slackened
lime.
It is not easy to demonstrate the connection between the milk from
certain dairies and cases of typhoid fever, but it is moderately certain
that a connection exists, and so common an article of diet needs to be
carefully guarded. The water the cows drink and the w'ater used in
washing the utensils in whicli the milk is kept ought to be especially
looked after. Keep the stables clean and the lots dry; it preserves the
health of the cattle. The cleanliness about all the premises does much
to starve out disease.
The question of water sujjply involves so many items of great impor-tance
that in the short time allotted each paper at the meeting all the
l)oints arising under this discussion cannot be brought out. The disposi-tion
in all towns of much size and increasing population is to provide a
public water supply. The protection it gives against dangerous fires in
communities, as w'ell as the convenience of such supply for domestic uses,
probably often lead to the establishment of these water-works. Unfortu-nately
the use of this water for drinking is too often an after considera-tion.
For instance, the Board of Health had occasion to examine the
water furnished one of the most prosperous towns in the State. The
chemist's report made it very doubtful in quality, and a visit was made
l)y two members of the Board to the town, and careful investigation was
had into the source of the supply. This was a small river, running from
its source through a large extent of farming country, and near the point
of intake, within a mile, there emptied into the river three streams.
One of these drained the edge of the town at a point inhabited by thrift-less,
dirty negroes; another came from a hamlet several miles awaj% and
the third one had situated on its course, about a quarter of a mile from
the river, a whiskey distillery. One hundred hogs were fattening upon
the refu.se of the distillery; the sour fermented mash was fed to them in
shallow vats over the stream, and in the most hoggish fashion thej^ wal-lowed
in their food. The stream bed from the still-house to the river
was the range of these animals, the sick and the well. It was i3olluted
by their droppings and the slush that came from the feeding vats, and
made an unwholesome addition to the water that the town people were
to drink and bathe in. The lesson teaches that the towns having a public
water supply must have the power to control for considerable distance
the water-shed, and AA'here the character of the water is doubtful that all
the more improved means of purifying it should be adopted. But this
is somewhat of a digression. Let us see what provision can be made
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| Full Text | 1895.] Document No. 20. 187 good results will spread if the earnest people will persevere in doing what is right. Don't pour kitchen slops on the ground; don't allow decaying parings of vegetables or other garbage to accumulate about the premises. If no other means for their disposal is at hand, put them away from the house and covering each day's deposit with slackened lime. It is not easy to demonstrate the connection between the milk from certain dairies and cases of typhoid fever, but it is moderately certain that a connection exists, and so common an article of diet needs to be carefully guarded. The water the cows drink and the w'ater used in washing the utensils in whicli the milk is kept ought to be especially looked after. Keep the stables clean and the lots dry; it preserves the health of the cattle. The cleanliness about all the premises does much to starve out disease. The question of water sujjply involves so many items of great impor-tance that in the short time allotted each paper at the meeting all the l)oints arising under this discussion cannot be brought out. The disposi-tion in all towns of much size and increasing population is to provide a public water supply. The protection it gives against dangerous fires in communities, as w'ell as the convenience of such supply for domestic uses, probably often lead to the establishment of these water-works. Unfortu-nately the use of this water for drinking is too often an after considera-tion. For instance, the Board of Health had occasion to examine the water furnished one of the most prosperous towns in the State. The chemist's report made it very doubtful in quality, and a visit was made l)y two members of the Board to the town, and careful investigation was had into the source of the supply. This was a small river, running from its source through a large extent of farming country, and near the point of intake, within a mile, there emptied into the river three streams. One of these drained the edge of the town at a point inhabited by thrift-less, dirty negroes; another came from a hamlet several miles awaj% and the third one had situated on its course, about a quarter of a mile from the river, a whiskey distillery. One hundred hogs were fattening upon the refu.se of the distillery; the sour fermented mash was fed to them in shallow vats over the stream, and in the most hoggish fashion thej^ wal-lowed in their food. The stream bed from the still-house to the river was the range of these animals, the sick and the well. It was i3olluted by their droppings and the slush that came from the feeding vats, and made an unwholesome addition to the water that the town people were to drink and bathe in. The lesson teaches that the towns having a public water supply must have the power to control for considerable distance the water-shed, and AA'here the character of the water is doubtful that all the more improved means of purifying it should be adopted. But this is somewhat of a digression. Let us see what provision can be made |
