Abstract
The most vitally important sanitary problem confronting American municipalities at the present day is, unquestionably, the supply of pure water for drinking and other domestic purposes. The wide-spread prevalence of typhoid fever may be practically looked upon as a measure of the pollution of the drinking water. Depending as this disease does almost entirely upon an infected water supply, the importance of having the latter of a pure quality is self-evident. In 1894, twenty-five of the principal cities of the United States had an average typhoid mortality of 39.6 per hundred thousand of population. Those cities which had the largest mortality from this disease were supplied by a highly suspicious quality of drinking water. It will be hardly necessary at the present day to insist upon the etiologic relation of infected water to typhoid fever. The numerous epidemics in this country and abroad, which have been studied with so much
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