Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781230096018

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... address recently delivered before the State Society states that at Pierrefonds, France, was a " particularly interesting case, as large numbers of the bacilli were found in a well--twenty-five thousand (25,000) to the litre--the water of which caused typhoid fever in every one of twenty persons who came from Paris and who drank the water." He also relates upon the authority of Dr. Abbot, of the Massachussetts State Board of Health, "that an epidemic of typhoid fever occurred at Canton Junction last Spring, where a well belonging to a foundry was polluted from a cesspool fifty-three (53) feet up the hill, which had received the stools of a typhoid patient the Fall before. The water caused a large number of cases of fever among the workmen who used it, while the men in an adjoining building who had other water escaped." In November and December of last year and January of the present year a severe epidemic of typhoid fever occurred in Providence, Rhode Island. The disease prevailed in all sections of the city and gave rise to the suspicion that the public water supply was in fault. Investigation developed the fact that typhoid fever had been prevailing in "the valley of the Pawtuxet." That at Natick, which is three and one-half miles above the pumping station "about twenty persons had had the disease." These families lived in tenement houses near the river, and were in the habit of throwing " slops and excrement on the banks of the stream " to be washed in with every rain. These recognized facts indicated the cause of the epidemic to be an infected water supply. And this suspicion was verified by an additional test. "Dr. Swartz had ascertained that domestic filters are collectors and...