The care of the body / by R.S. Woodworth.

  • Robert S. Woodworth
Date:
1912
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Credit: The care of the body / by R.S. Woodworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    into a stream, which lower down in its course fur- nishes the water supply of a city, the germs are likely to get into the city water, and so to cause an epidemic of typhoid. This has happened many times in the history of different towns, and shows the need for careful attention to the condition of the water. Much can be done by sand filters at the water works, which strain out most of the bacteria contained in the water. More and more, however, it is being felt that the pollution of streams is an evil which must some- how be stopped. Even when a city secures its water from the hills, without contamination by the sewage of other towns, it sometimes happens that the excretion of a patient living in some farmhouse is not disinfected, but being simply buried in the ground is washed into the reservoir and causes an epidemic. Other epidemics of this disease have been traced to milk. It may happen that the milk cans are washed, at the farm, in water which has been contaminated by typhoid excretions, and that in this way typhoid bacilli gain entrance to the milk. Or, it may be that some one who handles the milk has a mild attack of typhoid, which is not recognized as typhoid, and that bacilli pass from his hands to the milk. Also,
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