The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-06-01

public which so strange
ly with forwarding spirit our cities have
continued o poison themselves other.
Adams says that he a distinguished
sanitarian say: "Give million dollars and the power
enforce the laws and I'll make city in the world
typhoid proof
Pure water and the equipment keep it pure was his
1t simple, saving of grief pain
of cash, that wonders why civilization continues
permit nearly obsolete as
distant cousin typhus.
All typhoid traceable to polluted water IT, for
the world to stop drinking dilute sewerage,
typhoid vanish from vital
direct from water the
disappear the principal were emi-
Infected cites-and nearly large
constantly infected-get the disease in ways
They drink polluted either by themselves
others communities drink their own -scourings.
Cleveland Chicago do this Residents munc-
qualities welcome to their and hospitable interiors
the germs which them from diseased cities
directly above having pos
oned themselves herewith, them waiting
settlements further along Pittsburg Wash
ngton Philadelphia notable in this large
growing class.
Too much weight has been given by the public to cpl
typhoid. the endemic constantly
phase terrible tribute in lives
ferine the form that exists in nigh degree in MANY of
cities of this country The epidemic i'm
portant chiefly by it's lesson in exacting exemplary dam
for criminal careessness and valuable because it
puts Lord into the foolish
disregardng His painest of clean living,
to the soaring them into decent
sy, 1903. For two years the water had been
viously unfit drink that the water company private
enterprise, constantly in receipt of complaints
local board of health and from private citizens
called for water free from disease-pro-
ducing organisms; state law required reasonable
guardianship watershed. Contract and law to
equal Indifference corporation
subsequent testimony shOwed-after the tragedy
which supplied city lined with
pigstyes piles, garbage heaps, catte-pens and
outhouses many dischargng their with
only yards flow direct into Six Mile Creek the
streams that supplied it. For intestinal dis
eases and enteric fever common Ithaca. In
winter 19021903 the water aroused
began upon dam preparatory Install
of little shanties back of Six Mile Creek
which been throwing Stops the sick of
typhoid patients into the empying close
the intake, the Italians employed the dam
within yards the bank
typhoid appeared in epidemic form in the middle of
January 1903 By the time the disease had its
there 1880 known in population of 1880.
Seldom is attempt made to hold responsible those
guilty spreading infection. thing done
Perhaps it done often the effect would be
sautary A recent German epidemic 800 deaths
caused by untered being admitted to the
vice mains through secret pipe Failing to tech
thorities taught company lesson by charging
with aduteration of the supply and muctng it in
fines aggregatng than $4,000.
in Ashland, Wisconsin, sued the local
(private) company for causing her
husband by typhoid. She proved that sewerage from
typhoid flushed almost directly into the
panys intake that the city authorities had repeatedly
warned the company regarding pollution of the water;
that husband had drunk other and had
been infection in other form for several
his fatal illness. She verdict and the
city got filtration. There of criminal prose-
cution of individual corporation in such yet
one of the greatest of American lawyers has said:
whenever find death from typhoid,
ought hanged for murder"