The morning times., 1896-02-26
9O6 F Street N. w.

double that OF any Of the cities except
Allegheny. Therate, for instance for Wash
ington was 5.03 and for San Francisco |. / &.
The proceedings were opened by the
reading OF the following preamble and res
oiutions by Mr.. Guriey, assistant secrc-
tary OF the board OF trade:
ncfeas the city OF Washington being
the tdpltal OF the United States should bt.
placed and kept in the best sanitary condi-
ton; and
Whereas such condition can only be Sc
dDynafingeYery la DitatiOn or ha bita bIe
mousse ccaIected with an ample SUNNY OF
pure drinking water. ana with a system OF
IoIsI water ana sewage disposal which will
promptly remove suC,s fluids beyond the
civ limits IN such ma amer TO absolutely
prevent SOIL pollution therefore,
ht III resolved, first, That the general
iSS,nih ij,,tar 1l water supply from the Potomac
hlNer should be extended so as to be
aNaiiable FOR the supply of every habita bic
Dulldlug now in the city, or which NAV
pG DE- erected within the city limits. and that
tilis provision should be extended as far
as possible TO the Immediately adjacent
suburban districts
stcond-That the general water supply
ShouId be purified by seuimentation and
Il!tratlon, the first Icing necessary at Ger
taln times and the second at all times,
DeIore II Is admitted TO the mains.
Inlrd-IhatthcSy yStem OF st we eragewh hich
has been adopted should be extended pari
passu with the system OF general water
supply until every Labitable house can be
readily connected with it.
Fourth-With the complct ion and purifIca-
lioh OF tEe Conduit system or water supply
ali springs, pumps and wells should he
closed ny such means and methods as viii
prove so eflcctive that no human being
can OBTAIN drinking water from either OF
these sources.
Fifth-As rapidly as possible, pari passu
with the extension OF tie Conduit 81 stem
oI water supply and system OF sewerage
lhe owners OF every habitable and in
Eahned house should be compelled 10
MAKE satisfactory connections with such
systems OF water supply and sewerage
ana all priVy boxes, CcSspoOls and other
methods of disposal of buman exCrcta be
eIIcctlFcIy abolished.
Sixth. Without adequate suppIy Of rlIre.
water Tor all domestic purposes and sewer
connections of hahita DIe and iubabjted
houses, pollution OF soil, foods, and DRINKS
ana the diseases due to such pollution cam
not he prevented.
and, whereas the enormous nd constantly
increasing area of marsh along the eastern
bofdcr or the city is Il constant menace.
10 the health OF the residents or the ca stern
section or the CITY, ana especially so TO the
inmates OF the aiiASiiOusc ana hospital, 81.
EilZdbetfl : Asylum, and ARMY and Naval
forces, officials, and employees at the
fore,
BE it resolved, That the reclamation Of
these marshes Is iInpcra lively demanded
ana should he accomplished without un-
necessary delay.
MR.. BUSEY'S REMARKS.
DR.. Busey then took charge OF the meeting
He said that the resolutions set forth
five distinct propositions, and embody
the basis OF the discussion. Sewage dis
posal, he said, was more important matter
than street sewers. 1t meant a carrying
of the sewage down the river. He empha-
sized the publication OF the water as the
best remedy.
Without the means of remedying polluted
water and soil all efforts would be vain.
We are, he said, fortunately interested in
typhoid fever, because it is the disease
that enables us 10 prove our prOpositio ions.
The bacillus of the disease he traced to
polluted drinking water and milk. One
| hundred and thirty-eight epidemics We're
traced to milk. Typhoid fever had no other
base than itself, and its own specific
poison. 1t is a faliacy 10 suppose that
any other fever runs into typhoid fever.
All the committees and investigators last
year, he said were agreed that there was
an epidemic, and that its causes Were bad
water, polluted soil and the inefficiency OF
sewer connections.
DR.. Busey then explained one of the maps
which gave the names of severed and un-
severed cities. In the latter the death
rate was high. Then another map showed
how the death rate decreased a the sewage
system was enlarged. Munich, for in
stance, dropped from So to 21; Vienna,
from II to 2.
SOME VITAL STATISTICS.
In 1SS0S4 Washington death rate was
4.6; in 1SS5-9O it rose 10 6.7 He then
referred to table of water and sewer
connections. There We're II 900 houses
which had no connections. One-third OF
the houses, not having connections. fur
nished more than one half of the typhoid
cases.
He then took up the analysis of the 1876
| cases of typhoid, Investigated by Dr..
| Kober, with reference to the six sections
of the District. A glance at the map shows
that of the rs cases in the south, 43 drank
well water and 35 Potomac water. In
the aggregate of 1876, 2S9 drank we'll
! water and 80 Potomac water. The Enor-
tality was 119.
There was enough in this, he said, to eX-
cite suspicion at least, as to Potomac water.
| The table showed that polluted water was
| the cause of the epidemic. TheseCtions were
practically six distinct cities, of which
| 1.-The south section showed mortality of
| $50; the northeast, SIC; central, 4; north
west, III; Georgetown, 3.53; the county,
S.44. Northeast and county he would call
| bad cities, The northeast had bad water
and polluted soil enough TO provide eighty
| nine cases of typhoid fever in four months
In Brightwood there were eleven cases OF
| typhoid, all but two traccablc to polluted
| wells. The cases on Gale and Seton streets
were traced to the pump ON Gale street
| near Twentieth street. In AnacoStia the
cases were due to pump water. On Mime
sofa avenue it was a contaminated well.
Twenty-Five cases were traced to one well
| in the northeast. Many other instances like
these were cited.
TYPHOID IN THE NORTHWEST.
In the northwest the pump at Twenty
seventh and K streets was found to be the
cause OF several ca ses.
Diagrams were exhibited showing the
location of the cases and the pumps 10