Peekskill供水
说这么多已经recen的原因t typhoid epidemic at Peekskill, N. Y., and by implication so much blame has been laid upon the trustees of the village for allowing (as it is claimed) the watershed to become contaminated by the members of the McNally camp in the Croton watershed immediately adjoining, that in fairness to the Peekskill officials something should be said as to the precautions laid down by law for the sanitary protection of the Peekskill Hollow creek and its tributaries. These lie in the counties of Putnam and Westchester and are as follows: Oscawana lake, “Osceola lake,” McGregory point and Michigan brook and their tributaries. By these the village is supplied with water, and that water, it may be added, since the outbreak of typhoid started, has been carefully examined and pronounced perfectly and wholesome. Oil the other hand, medical opinion on the spot inclines to the opinion already published in these columns that, owing to the recent severe January thaw and consequent freshets the accumulation of debris on the watershed of which in all probability filth voided by the Italian laborers of the adjoining camp, in defiance of the law (of which they were ignorant and for whose pains and penalties they would not have cared anyway) formed a portion. The resultant freshets poured a large volume of water into the reservoir, which it is asserted (and the assertion does not seem to have been contradicted) had not been cleaned out in years. The water was thus stirred up and rendered dirty and disease-germs were dispersed by the contents of the reservoir. These caused the epidemic. whose comparatively sudden decline is set down to the fact that, on the cessation f the freshet, the water in the reservoir settled and by the process of sedimentation became once more fit to drink. The questions, therefore, are: (1) Was the water which was officially tested and pronounced wholesome, taken from the reservoir before, during, or after the freshet? (2) Were the samples tested taken from different narts of and different depths in the reservoir—i. e, from near the place where the water entered and where it was discharged from the basin, from the middle wher it is deepest, from close by the sides where it is shallowest, from near or at what distance down from the surface. All or any one of these conditions would make all the difference to he analyst. In justice to the PeekskiU officials, it must be said that the rules and regulations for the sanitary protection of the watershed, if strictly lived up to, are sufficiently rigid to insure the non-contamination of the water. They cover everything from privies and cesspools to laundry and similar refuse to cemeteries—by implication entail upon the taxpayers the maintenance of a system of inspection under which all and any accumulations of ptitrescible matter should be prevented or removed. if present. But, of course, no allowance was made for the planking down of a camp of Italian laborers close upon the ridge where the Croton and Peekskill watersheds divide, mr for the chances of such foreigners all strangers to and totally regardless of the laws of sanitation. These must, therefore, be taken into account the probabilities and possibilities (t) of pollution from the drain of tha camp percolating through some defects in its construction and thereby contaminating he Peekskill watershed, and (2) the probabilities of these foreign laborers trespassing upon that land and defiling it to such an extent as to pollute the water of some one of the lakes, ponds or creeks that furnish Peekskill with water. The waterworks system was built by the town in 1872. To-day the system is gravity and pumping to reservoir. There are three pumping engines—-makers Holly and Yergonnes Pumping Co. The daily consumption is about 1,6000.000 gal. The per-capita consumption about 104 gal. The domestic and fire pres sure is 100 pounds. About twenty miles of cast iron main 16-in. to 4-in. is laid; about 180 hydrants (Wood) and over 150 valves (Ludlow, Eddy, Wood) are set, and nearly 900 meter? (Crown), Union, Ilersey rotary. Trident, Lambert and Nash—all owned by the town— are installed.
说这么多已经recen的原因t typhoid epidemic at Peekskill, N. Y., and by implication so much blame has been laid upon the trustees of the village for allowing (as it is claimed) the watershed to become contaminated by the members of the McNally camp in the Croton watershed immediately adjoining, that in fairness to the Peekskill officials something should be said as to the precautions laid down by law for the sanitary protection of the Peekskill Hollow creek and its tributaries. These lie in the counties of Putnam and Westchester and are as follows: Oscawana lake, “Osceola lake,” McGregory point and Michigan brook and their tributaries. By these the village is supplied with water, and that water, it may be added, since the outbreak of typhoid started, has been carefully examined and pronounced perfectly and wholesome. Oil the other hand, medical opinion on the spot inclines to the opinion already published in these columns that, owing to the recent severe January thaw and consequent freshets the accumulation of debris on the watershed of which in all probability filth voided by the Italian laborers of the adjoining camp, in defiance of the law (of which they were ignorant and for whose pains and penalties they would not have cared anyway) formed a portion. The resultant freshets poured a large volume of water into the reservoir, which it is asserted (and the assertion does not seem to have been contradicted) had not been cleaned out in years. The water was thus stirred up and rendered dirty and disease-germs were dispersed by the contents of the reservoir. These caused the epidemic. whose comparatively sudden decline is set down to the fact that, on the cessation f the freshet, the water in the reservoir settled and by the process of sedimentation became once more fit to drink. The questions, therefore, are: (1) Was the water which was officially tested and pronounced wholesome, taken from the reservoir before, during, or after the freshet? (2) Were the samples tested taken from different narts of and different depths in the reservoir—i. e, from near the place where the water entered and where it was discharged from the basin, from the middle wher it is deepest, from close by the sides where it is shallowest, from near or at what distance down from the surface. All or any one of these conditions would make all the difference to he analyst. In justice to the PeekskiU officials, it must be said that the rules and regulations for the sanitary protection of the watershed, if strictly lived up to, are sufficiently rigid to insure the non-contamination of the water. They cover everything from privies and cesspools to laundry and similar refuse to cemeteries—by implication entail upon the taxpayers the maintenance of a system of inspection under which all and any accumulations of ptitrescible matter should be prevented or removed. if present. But, of course, no allowance was made for the planking down of a camp of Italian laborers close upon the ridge where the Croton and Peekskill watersheds divide, mr for the chances of such foreigners all strangers to and totally regardless of the laws of sanitation. These must, therefore, be taken into account the probabilities and possibilities (t) of pollution from the drain of tha camp percolating through some defects in its construction and thereby contaminating he Peekskill watershed, and (2) the probabilities of these foreign laborers trespassing upon that land and defiling it to such an extent as to pollute the water of some one of the lakes, ponds or creeks that furnish Peekskill with water. The waterworks system was built by the town in 1872. To-day the system is gravity and pumping to reservoir. There are three pumping engines—-makers Holly and Yergonnes Pumping Co. The daily consumption is about 1,6000.000 gal. The per-capita consumption about 104 gal. The domestic and fire pres sure is 100 pounds. About twenty miles of cast iron main 16-in. to 4-in. is laid; about 180 hydrants (Wood) and over 150 valves (Ludlow, Eddy, Wood) are set, and nearly 900 meter? (Crown), Union, Ilersey rotary. Trident, Lambert and Nash—all owned by the town— are installed.
