Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1913 — Pure Water vs. Typhoid. [ARTICLE]

Pure Water vs. Typhoid.

Prof. Geo. M. Kober recently collected statistics showing that the substitution of a pure for a contaminated water-supply In American cities has been accompanied by a decrease of deaths from typhoid amounting to more than seventy per cent Before the change the deaths numbered, on the average, 69.4 per 100,000; since, they have fallen to 19.8. A bulletin of the New York State Department of Health in 1908 showed, in ten .cities, a reduction of over fifty-three per cent In the typhoid death-rate after the introduction of a pure water-sup-ply.—Youth’s Companion.