Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Purification of Public Water Supplies
The principal object in bringing out this work at the present time is to impress upon city officials, health officers, and others connected with or interested in works of public water supply, the necessity of a more vigorous attack of the problems of Water Pollution, and Purification of Water intended for drinking and other dietetic uses.
The statistics of population and typhoid fever death rates (appendix A) have been obtained from health officers, water works managers, and official published reports.
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