Abstract
During July, August and September of 1902 there was an unusually severe epidemic of typhoid fever in Chicago, which raised the death rate to 402 from this disease alone, as against 212 during the same three months of the previous year. CHICAGO'S WATER SUPPLY. The water supply of Chicago comes from the lake and is collected at five pumping stations: the Hyde Park station, which is two miles from the shore; the Fourteenth Street, four miles from shore; the Carter Harrison, two and a half miles; the Chicago Avenue, two miles, and the Lake View, two miles out. The Carter Harrison station is considered the best, the Fourteenth Street is almost as good. Specimens of water from each station are examined daily in the laboratory of the Chicago Board of Health and a bulletin as to the
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