The Red Cloud chief., 1911-08-24
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They make an effort to clean this pump-weli
Perhaps they succeed and perhaps they do
not The point is that the expenditure of q
little money would protect the pumping sta.
ton from inundation.
New York state has the same tale of pollu-
tion to tell. Albany. Cohoes. Dunkirk Lock.
port. Niagara Falls. Ogdensburg. Oswego
Tonawanda. Watervliet. and other cities drink
river water that Is grossly polluted by the
sewage OF cities farther upstream. And have
seen dozens OF photographs or flthy cowsheds
and barns. the drainage from which polluted
the watershed for New York City
In Illinois fifteen towns north 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 the
south From the Atlantic to the Pacific from
the Gulf to the Lakes. our people are need.
lessly drinking polluted water.
What 10 worse, water pollution Is on the In.
crease. with the rapid growth Of our popu
lation." says Alec H. Seymour Secretary OF
the New York State Board OF Health in q re.
cent bulletin. 'the deHlement Of our streams
also increases Some Of our finest streams
and lakes are being rendered unavailable for
boating. bathing fishing. and domestic use.
They are Of no value except az cesspools."
Typhoid fever one cannot contract without
voided by typhoid patient These germs
get into the body through the mouth. pass
through the stomach into the intestines. and
are carried through the body by the blood.
They leave the body through the bowels and
In the urine. Sometimes infection Ia carried
by contact or through vegetables and milk:
but the common channel Of typhoid transmits
sion is through our water supply. I'm order
that germs could find entrance into drinking
N mr. uat
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
darrhoea are most prevalent along water
courses used for both sewage disposal and
water supply. Conversely the typhoid rate
Of any town continuously using a given water
supply fairly represents the sanitory quality
Of that water supply.
The truth OF this will be seen by a COM
parison Of the typhoid rates Of towns using
clean water with the rates Of towns using
polluted water. In Michigan. for instance.
Alegan. q town Of 2,795 population Tin 1904
with pure water supply. had. between 1889
and 1905, 32 cases of typhoid and 4 deaths.
South Haven. town Of 2.787 Inhabitants. with
water drawn from Lake Michigan within 100
feet Of a sewer outlet. had In the same period
245 cases and "a deaths. Manistee. with IL 800
population and pure water from wells. had
during these same years a typhoid rate OF Ii
per 100000 population: whereas Menominee
with 1866 population and polluted water from
Green Bay, had typhoid rate per 100000 OF
81. Hartford. Mich. with 1,246 population and
impure we'll water. had, between 1889 and
1906, "a typhoid cases and deaths; whereas
Montague. with 1921 population and pure vel
water. had In the same period only cases
and deaths Again. Benton Harbor. with
pure water from deep wells, had a death rate
per 100000 OF 17s: Grand Haven. with pure
we'll water. a rate Of 1873: and ST. Joseph
with pure lake water. a rate OF 1913; whereas
the following New York towns using polluted
river or lake water had for ten years-1S9s
to 190S-these typhoid rates: Lockport. 484
Oswego. %9A: Ogdensburg. $40: Cohoes. 84S
Niagara Falls, 1899: and Pittsburg. usinl
polluted river water. had a typhoid rate. from
1900 to 1907. that averages 1877 per 100000.
Before the typhoid rate of cities that have
been scourged with epidemics. the high ty
phoid mortality of such cities as Pittsburt
and Niagara Falls dwindles into insignihcance
In Watertown ~ out of 6s2 cases were fatal
in Ithaca 81 out Of 1850; in Pittsburg 81
out of 6,a65. In Plymouth ia out of L10l Del