The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1911-08-03

Ihey make an EFFORT to clean this pump.wsll
ftfhaps they succeed and pcflaus they do
not Tho point is that the expenditure of n
lttle money would protect the pumuing sta.
ton from inundaton
New York state hns the same tale nj poIIu.
ton to tell Albany Cohoes, Dunkirk Lock
port Niagara Falls Ogdcnsburg Oswcgn.
Ionawanda, Watoryliet, and other cities drink
river water that is grossly polluted by the
sewage OF cities farther upstream And have
seen dozens Of photographs or 1lthy cow.sheds
ana barns, the drainage from which polluted
tho watershed for New York city.
In Illinois fifteen towns rorth of Chicago
empty sewage into Lake Michigan. and nine
OF them draw their drinking water back from
the lake. And what is true OF Pennsylvania
and New York, and Illinois Is also true Of
other states Particularly is It true of tho
south From the Atlantic TO the Pacific. from
the Gulf to the Lakes. our people are need.
lossly drinking polluted water
What is worse water pollution Is on the In
crease. with the rapid growth Of our pony
lation," says Alec II, Seymour, Secretary OF
the New York State Board OF Health. In Il re-
cent bulletin. the dcG!pment OF our streams
also Increases. Some Of our finest streams
and lakes are being rendered unavailable for
boating battling fishing. and domestic use.
Typhoid fever one cannot contract without
taking into ones system germs that have been
voided by typhoid patient. These germs
get into the body through the mouth. pass
through the stomach into the intestines and
IRE carried through the body by the blood
They leave the body through tho bowels and
In the urine. Sometimes infection Is carried
by contact or through vegetables and milk:
but the common channel Of typhoid transmits
sion Is through our water supply In order
that germs could find entrance into drinking
water" TO quote DR.. Howe again. there must
have been carelessness in caring for the body
wastes OF previous victims" And this care.
lessness. as we have seen. consists for the
most part in allowing our water sources to be
polluted with sewage
In consequence typhoid, winter cholera, and
iarrhoea are most prevalent along water
courses used for both sewage disposal and
water supply. Conversely tho typhoid rate
of any town continuously using given water
supply fairly represents the santory quality
lf that water supply
The truth of this will be seen by a com.
narIson OF the typhoid rates OF towns using
clean water with the rates of towns using
polluted water. In Michigan for instance
Allegan. town Of 2,795 population lin 1000
with pure water supply had, between 1889
IND 1906, 30 cases OF typhoid and deaths
South Haven. n town of 2,767 inhabitants, with
water drawn from Lake Michigan within 100
ect of sewer outlet had in the same period
AS cases and "a deaths Mnnistee with 1890
and pure water from wells had
Turing these same years typhoid rate of Is
'er 100000 population; whereas Menomnoe.
WITH 1866 population and polluted water from
Green Bay had q typhoid rate per 10000 Of
a, Hartford, Mich, with 1916 population and
IMPURE well water, had between 1889 and
906 "a typhoid caseE and deaths; whereas
Montague, with 1921 population and pure we'll
water, had In the same period only cases
nd deaths. Again, Benton Harbor, with
uro water from deep wells had death rate
or 100000 OF IT'S; Grand Haven, with pure
'ell water, e rate OF 1873; and ST. Joseph
18th pure lake water, rate or 1873; whereas
no following New York towns using polluted
Yer or lake water had for ten years-1se9
} 190S-these typhoid rates: Lockport. 4s4;
swego, 494; oedensburg, SAC; Cohoes, SiS;
Niagara Falls. 1929; and Pittsburg, using
diluted river water had typhoid rate, from
200 to 1907, that averages 1877 per 100000
Before the typhoid rate OF cities that have
sen scourged with epidemics, the high ty.
hold mortality of such cities as Pittsburg
I'd Niagara Falls dwindes into inslgnifcance
Watertown Al out Of $50 cases were fatal;
Ithaca SO out of 1880; in Pittsburg 1872
II of 5,265. In Plymouth ia out OF /, 104 per-