The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-09
PRICE OF GOOD WATER
Ladies' of Improvement League Get
Some Figures.

The ladies who represent the pure
water" movement started by the I'm
league and who will be
present at the next meeting of the
school board to urge that spring water
or some other pure water be supplied
to the children in the public schools,
have learned that the spring water
companies will supply all the schools
in the city, one pint per day for each
pupil and teacher, for about $4,000
a year. AS there are sixty schools in
the city and some Of them miles out.
from the center Of the city and nearly
100000 children to be supplied with
drinking water for nine months, the
price is considered reasonable. It is
believed that if the board of education
had included this amount in the tax
levy the people would have been more
than glad to pay the additional bill.
THE members of the league are de-
end says Mrs. IA. Crosby, chair
man of the subcommittee which is
pursuing the investigation, "and am
glad to say that we are meeting with
the heartiest encouragement and sup
port from all sides. 1t is argued that
reservoir water is SO pure that it is
safe, but we are informed that every
office in the city hall is supplied with
spring water-even the office Of the
board of education some Of whose
members think that city water is
plenty good enough for our children.
When we think of many young lives
that are imperiled daily andtthe dear
Bones that are taken away by this
dreadful disease, it is small wonder
that people are taking such a deep
interest in this movement. #
$90,OOO,OOO for Typhoid.
What a typhoid fever epidemic
means to the community is Somewhat
graphically shown by DR.. Victor G.
Vaughan, dean of the medical depart
ment of the University Of Michigan, in
his address on ..The Water Supply OF
Cities" before the Michigan Municipal
league. He says:
There. die in this country every year
from typhoid fever alone not less than 3d.
900 people. There are sick in this coun-
try not less than 100000 people from this
same cause. TO get down to dollars and
cents, which is the American way of fig
Turing everything, say each man is worth
81, 000-and it was estimated in the days
of slavery that man was worth 81, 900
1T is estimated also that it costs on al
average 81, 1000 to bring a child from the
cradle down to the time that he is able to
support himself Say that the average hui
man life is worth $1,000. Then with 10000
deaths from this disease, we are losing by
death alone $50, DOC, 900. But there are
100000 people sick. Then we will say thai
the time of each one Of these individuals
lis worth a dollar a day. Besides thai
there must be at least one nurse, and We
will suppose that these services are worth
81 day. Then for each day that those
$780, 900 people are sick, the people of ths
United States are paying $1,000, OO0 Ant
forty days is certainly an average duration
for typhoid fever. Then with this $40.'
100000 and the s50,Oo0,0oO less by death
lat is interesting to note that the people -o
the United States are paying a tribute o
500, 900, 900 to our ignorance for the exist
Ience of a disease which, If every man die
his duty, would not exist at all.