Show REPORT REGARDING cep SPOOLS ajl iu li A lal J to the mayor and council of denver beaver city utah gentlemen we your committee consisting 0 of the mem members era of cf the board of health albea of beaber ercito city utah chosen chon forthe tor the purpose ot of investigating the effect of 0 Cesa poola upon the sanitary conditions of beaver city report ns as follows after due investigation and consultation with parties informed us as to the ex asting conditions as well as upon watters matters of sanitation und and des diseases eases resulting from lack of sanitation wo we find that our chief sources of water s epply for culinary and domestic dome stio purposes in beaver city are derived fram ground water or a stratum of water or stream moving from a brigher to a flower lower level varying in depth at different times and seasons with the amount of precipitation and d irrigation and apparently with the degree degreeff et of temperature this stratum of water seems to anin tain a cluse close regail relationship to certain in Aos eases scouring at certain seasons of tha year such as aa typhoid fe septic fever and acid dy dysentery dyson sentry try this thia rise flee of the water is ia ob observed in the surface wells in the city hii on tho the approach of the 1 irrigation season 1 and warra warr weather I 1 I 1 that the ground whenn alen 4 from any cause it becomes moist the processes of decay are arc more active and when the groundwater ground aiss air next the surface heroines becomes charged with the product sot 0 decomposition and is ia forced out of the pores of 0 the earth by the rising ground water and entering into info the surrounding air causes de debease des easo sease and if decease germs are in tiny anny way introduced trod into the soil by infelt rati lon I 1 from ess pools as aa they are liable to be and gain arcasa to wells the waters of which ate are used for drinking purposes dessaso is ia sure bure to result it is a well established fact tl that at organic isa im purifies puri ties emanating emina ting from human sources aro are capable of conveying the germs of 0 such diseases des eases as typhoid fever dysentery rind and other intestinal desea dese apes sos an d that such germs are disch discharged argeI with the excreta and therewith enter the water and that tho the excreta idge it is it eo highly dangerous but the gren greatest test darget darger lieo in ia the fact that such matter convoys the germs germa of sueh such decease into the water hence if the excreta eacret ot of a typhoid patient enters ellars a cess pool and the liquid elements ele menta are allowed to percolate the soil boil by meara means ot or the ground water and enter our wells which it will do it if the ordinary cess pool is used the diseases eases above mention ed will be distributed throughout the city it is laid down as a i rule nile by tho the very best nut authority 1 writy that in localities where the ground 1 water id many feet below the sur surface faco the inhabitants aro usually fren frea from such diseases doss des asca eases and that where the ground waters are near the surface they ore are pot not so fio free from them with us as has been observed by all the members of bf your honorable body ye we notice that before the subsidence 0 of the ground waters la ia our city in the fall 0 of the year typhoid fever faver and other it tos linal diseases dos eases frequently prevail that in carcity our city the soil is usually moist and in plates places is saturated almost con and as most of the drinking vater valer in the city is procured from wells wella we no are de cidely of the opinion that it isa is n serious menace to the health of the titi to tn allow CESSPOOLS CESS POOLS and we are unanimously of the opinion that un tier der the eil existing sting condition Bho ora ordinary inary open coss pool ought not to be allowed and that all such ces cee pools now existing |