The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-07-18
Tuesday, July IS, 1911.
THE CITI'S ICE SUPPLY.

W01cn NeWDeTry las passed ILLS SuAu
mer ice has been almost as necessar.
as nourishment, and more necessar.
in many cases than proper raiment.
In the course of nature the he
weather will continue yet for at leas
about two months.
It is, therefore, Of the utmost i'm
portance to the health of Newberry
that the city's ice supply should be
free from contaminations.
The Farmers Oil Mill has had {
monopoly of the ice business in New
berry this summer It has undertaken
to supply the city with ice, and in this
respect has made itself public util-
ity. It has assumed this work, We
suppose, for the legitimate profit which
may be made out of the business.
It is of the utmost Importance,
therefore, that the ice which the Far
mers' Oil Mill puts upon the market
should be free even from the suspicion
of contamination. This is a high duty
which the Farmers Oil Mill owes to
the people of Newberry-to the men,
women and children of Newberry.
The recent analysis of the distilled
water from which the Farmers Oil
Mill manufactures it's ice shows this
distilled water to be free from con-
:tamination. Both the ''city water and
ice are free from contamination, -
says the board of health, in view of
the analyses made.
But the analysis of the spring wat
er, from which a part Of the water
which is distilled is taken, shows
<tpositive bacterial indications Of con-
Examinations. The sample, according
to the analysis, contains coli-group
bacilli, indicating that same has been
contaminated by faecal matter of some
kind" "Conditions causing contamina-
tion should be removed says the ana
1ysis. The typhoid bacillus" says
the Newberry board of health, belongs
to the ''coli-group bacilli."
In reply to an inquiry from The Her.
aid and News over the telephone on
Monday, it was stated at the Farmers
Oil Mill that the mill was continuing
On Monday to use water from this
spring for distillation for the pur-
pose of its manufacture into ice.
Why distill contaminated water
when there is pure water at hand in
abundance?
We are informed by the city board
of health that the spring will be wall
ed in to prevent contaminations, and
then another analysis will be made,
and If it is not then free from contain
inations, that the spring VIII be con
demned.
In the meanwhile, in accordance
with the information given out at
the Farmers Oil Mill On Monday, the
spring is being used as a source of
supply of water from which the city's
ice supply is manufactured.
True, the analysis of the water after
it is distilled, shows it to be free from
contaminations.
But two of Newberry's physicians
and who are two as good physicians
and of as high standing as can be
found anywhere (and their names
will be furnished if this statement is
controverted)-give the following to
The Herald and News as their medical
opinion:
In getting the spring water to the
point of distillation it is natural that
the pipes or the machinery through
which it comes will be contaminated
with the contaminated spring water.
The water being in use around Xe
mill, it is altogether possible for the
contaminations to slip in, even though
the water is distilled-and the typhus
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