FILTRATION OF THE CROTON WATER.
The German Medical society of New York has addressed a letter to Mayor Low concerning the need of proper filtration of the Croton water. It is not asserted that the water is particularly bad, but it is pointed out that every year a large number of people die in this city of typhoid fever, including that portion of it which is served by the Croton aqueduct supply. The Croton watershed (the letter insists) is “liable to all sorts of contaminations which are not to be avoided.” It is often dirty for months, evil tasting and evil smelling, too bad to be used even for bathing purposes. Filtration should, therefore, be resorted to if the disease-scourge is to be averted. Typhoid may be introduced by milk or oyster dealers who use Croton water, also by the ice dealers.
Hennessey, Okla. T., is the only town in the Territory that has ever voted against the issue of waterworks bonds.
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