The Water Supply of Jersey City.

The Water Supply of Jersey City.

IN pursuit of information on the influence of polluted water supplies on the typhoid fever statistics of the larger cities of this country, my attention was drawn by the articles recently appearing in the New York Times, to the water supply of Jersey City.

这个城市在1890年至1893年期间,包容性, has taken high rank as a typhoid fever centre, the death rate from this disease being exceeded in fact only by four of our large cities, viz: Pittsburgh, Chicago, Louisville and Washington City. The mass of evidence on the cause of typhoid fever abroad and in this country, is to the effect that it is invariably a water carried disease, and even in those epidemics where, (as at Montclair, N. J., (last April) milk is the immediate distributor of the germ, water used in connection with the dairy operations has been the original habitat of the typhoid bacillus. From which it follows, that if the typhoid germ is kept out of our domestic water supplies typhoid fever would cease to to exist as a scourage of the youth and promise of our land. I expect this broad statement of the cause of typhoid fever will be disputed by some investigators, but I am willing to accept the proof that typhoid can have an existence after our drinking and cooking water has been rendered sterile, or is known not to furnish a home and means of transportation for the bacillus.