History of Sanitation
Forfatter: J. J. Cosgrove
År: 1910
Forlag: Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co
Sted: Pittsburgh U.S.A
Sider: 124
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HISTORY OF SANITATION
wholesome. Many public wells with pumps had been
installed at certain intervals on the public highways, and
an epidemic of cholera traced to one of these wells, was
the means of pointing out the danger to public health,
caused by an infected water supply, and of showing the
channel by which the infectious matter from people suffer-
ing from intestinal diseases was transmitted to healthy
individuals. The story is well told by Sedgwick:* “One
of the earliest, one of the most famous, and one of the most
instructive cases of the conveyance of disease by polluted
water, is that commonly known as the epidemic of Asiatic
cholera connected with the Broad Street, London, well,
which occurred in 1854. For its conspicuously circum-
scribed character, its violence and fatality, and especially
* Principles of Sanitary Science and the Public Health.