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Dangers in Snow Water

December 30th, 2008 at 5:40 pm » Comments (2)

Proximity of Privy and Well. Proximity of Privy and Well.  — unless privy and well be located at considerable distance from each other, and further unless the nature of the ground be such that the flow from the privy will be away from the sources of the well, there is always great danger of the [...]



Fever Germs in Ice

December 29th, 2008 at 5:39 pm » Comments (0)

Fever Germs in Ice.  — in Connecticut, the Board of Health informs us that, in several instances, attention has been drawn to sewage contaminated ponds with ice houses upon their borders, and that several isolated cases of typhoid fever, and one death, from the free use of the ice blue by sewage, have been recorded [...]