Show I I I I I PITTSBURG'S PITTSBURGH TYPHOID RATE BATE rank Prank E. E W Wing Ving writes in Charities and the Commons about thirty five years cars of fever e Cr in Pittsburg He lie 3 sas that the AlI Allegheny and anti tho the Monongahela Mon Men on rivers arc are turbid lurLi at all aU times and anti after a rain or pi- pi in in tb the spring so o muddy that a l platinum wire viro cannot be seen scon more more than a quarter guarter pf of an au inch front from the tho surface urfa c. c In addition to this thi investigations in ha have bavo vo shown that t the ther r rivers commonly carry in solution the soluble chemical products of the tho mills alon along their shores or shores organic organic anic and in inorganic in organic acid and alkali oils fats and other carbon arbon compounds i dead animals rats rats cats and dogs grated and putrescent as ns well as the tho thoo o of ot iron and ani steel teel n mills tanneries tan tau nones and aul slaughter houses and anti similar simi lar industries 8 But this is not all Set Sev enty five upriver towns with towns with an nn estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated population of inhabitants in in tho Allegheny h nv or tributary valleys valleys val val- leys and in the Monongahela la a 0 Jou bug strung string of ot to towns tow D s. s Homestead Braddock Rankin and cK port all their supply of oC common s sewage netis ne tos hg n further cont contamination of th the al already l ready dirt dirty water with its Ion long list of disease brooding bacteria |