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Show SEE TO THE WATERSHEDS. This is the season when the health inspectors should have all the watersheds, which are the source of supply for the city, examined. One careless family camped somewhere in the watershed on a stream leading to this city might inaugurate a typhoid epidemic. epi-demic. As Dr. J. M. Wainwright of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, says : ' "Typhoid is. a filth disease. The only normal amount of it any civilized community needs to have is none at all." That is if the sources of water supply are kept free from filth there would he no typhoid. Dr. Wainwright Wain-wright spoke feelingly because Scranton has just gone through a typhoid epidemic. Right now New York City is in great fear of a typhoid epidemic. The watershed that supplies that city contains more than 300 square miles and the papers are urging that all the water be filtered. The watersheds here, are small and can be examined ex-amined in two or three days and can b 3 patrolled all summer. It must be kept in mind that there are a great many people in this region who have no appreciation appre-ciation of the danger of typhoid and who care less. Such, people have to be watched and when found they ought to be arrested and fined. , The only way to teach some men some things is through physical suffering or by an attack upon their pockets. ' |