| Show public drinking fountains the public drinking fountain Is a necessary convenience in a city but butt it becomes a very dangerous disease breeder it if not properly regulated especially Is this true where the water spurts arts up and lows flows oi oer er a cup into the bowl bowl T alie li danger lion these fountains lies in not permitting a largo large enough sarc stream m to how flow so that a person drinking dlf not be able to imbibe the water faster than it hows flows from the fountain there is a one fountain on stain main street that stood for days with tile the escape pipe stopped and a small email stream flowing from the feed pipe which filled up the bowl and which in turn overflowed onto the sidewall side walh children passing thought that a splendid place to get a drink where they could sip the water from the rim of the filled bowl and it was visited good and plenty by the little folks A more unsanitary condition could hardly be imagined and yet that fountain was permitted to stand in that condition several days or a week all the drinking fountains could be impi improved implored ored by letting just a little more water run through them especially those where the feed pipe comes up through a little cup which has no way of draining out excepting over its rim |
