Show Rural Hural Water Wa-ter- Wa Su Supply t Wh When n great sums of money are being be tag ing expended by bj city governments that the Inhabitants ol of towns may have a sanitary water supply It seems strange I that the supply In rural towns should t l receive little or no attention This latter latter lat lat- ter population may seem relatively Insignificant int In in- t significant but according to the last las census It comprises about k souls T This s means that the people are ate drinking th the water most mos av available without a thought of Its sanItary sand san san- d condition These various source sources of supply whether wells springs or small streams are similarly unreliable for furnishing drinking water The statistics of mortality In the country are very Indefinite but even these show that the rural l population Is not as free from illness lIness as It should be And though everywhere the rural death rate Is lower than tho the urban death I rate yet the lowering In the country has not been been been-as as great asIn the city An n examination tion of typhoid sta sta- shows that the death rate of t other other oth other er er diseases is generally lower in th the country than in the city but the prevalence prevalence prey alence of typhoid is almost equal almost equal to If not greater In the rural di districts than in the cities Several instances have been reported which show the rural rural ru ru- ral typhoid d rate to be ten times greater great F er than the urban rate for the same district To a certain district dis dis- In central Pennsylvania proves this fact It is made up of a rural population pop pop- with one one hundred Inhabitants inhabitants inhabitants' to the square mile It is a region of fine farms wild mountains and woods country residences and picnic groves n 5 And in this val valley ey there has been as much typhoid fever as as s in to the city of Phila Philadelphia Sad as this as-this this condition is there seems to b be no remedy for It The sources of a city water supply are few and the city g government easily the conditIons conditIons' conditions conditions' affecting It t. t But what can be done when the sources of supply are by the thousands thou sands A mint of money and an arm army of chemists would not be sufficient to give the same care to the country supply supply sup sup- lIt l ply that hat is S given to that of the city 11 |