Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1910-06-08
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The Care OF the Drinking Water
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The Care OF the Drinking Water
Supply.
Health Is Of first Importance In all
occupations, since 1T governs the abll.
tty # the individual to do work. The
progressiveness Of a community Is
governed by its healthfulness, and
this healthfuness Is measured large
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ity OF It's drinking water. Almost
our entire rural population AMI the
inhabitants OF a majority Of orr
small towns get their supply of
drinking water from springs or from
shallow wells. 1t Is to call attention
to the often improper surroundings
OF these sources of drinking water
that this article Is written.
The principal diseases supposed to
be communicable through the drink
Ing water are typhoid fever, cholera,
dysentery and other diarrhoeal affec-
ions, cholera infantum, animal para
site diseases, enteric fevers and
scarlet FEVER. OF the diseases men
toned typhoid fever. cholera, dysen-
terry, cholera infantum and scarlet
FEVER may also be carried by milk:
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and typhoid by raw oysters and raw
fruit. In order that the water sun
ply or any Of the other agencies men
toned may carry these diseases it is
t1rst necessary for them to become
infected with the specific infection
which communicates the disease. The
injection Of all of the sources men,
tioned except mosquitoes. is derived
from the eJecta Of a patient suffering
from the disease.
IL Is fact proven by statistics
that the water-born diseases begin to
increase In July and are at their max
mum during August and September.
decreasing In October.
The Spring.
The ideal conditions for the snrinp
arc that It's watershed Is uninhabitcd
that the watershed does not contain
stables, barnyards, pig pens, privies,
cesspools or cemeteries, and It should
not be traversed by railroads nor
highways, for all Of these make infec-
ton possible. The freedom from all
or these objections Is not always OBJ
talnable. The spring should be ditch
ct around In such way as to carry
on OF the surface water, both dur
ing downpOur Of rain and from
ponded areas, and never allow it to
be overilowed and filled with filth or
trash Of any kind. The surroundings
must be scrupulously clean. The
spring Itself should be walled with
rock and covered to prevent trash
from falling into It.
The Well.
-, Too many of our wells are located
q rA In,
may be convenient for the stock. re-
gardless Of sanitary conditions. The
source OF the drinking water for the
family should be removed from any
such possible danger of infection
The well should be located on n
well-drained area, remote from barns
pig pens, privfes, cesspools, cemeter-
les or drains. and should be cemented
from the edge outward to the dist
ance OF several feet. Above the sur
race OF this cement tight box should
De Dullt and tight-fitting cover pro-
Vlded, IT buckets are used. The pumD
IS much to be preferred to the bucket
because 1t lessons the danger Of
trash falling into the we'll. All waste
water should be drained oft and no
water allowed to spill back into the
well. No Duddles should be allowed
to form nearby in which hoes might
wallow. The hog is a great gi.therer
OF Nth. and by wallowing in a pud-
die which drains into a we'll there Is
great danger ofHnfection.
Deep wells, properly protected to
prevent an overflow Of surface water
at the top, are to be preferred to
either shallow wells or springs, espe-
clally in the southern part of this
state. +. F.. Keitt, Chemist,
S. G. Experiment Station.