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Prevention of Communicable Disease: Water

But this, unfortunately, is by no means the case. or Infection from Water Supply.- Investigation has shown that most epidemics of the disease are caused by the excreta of the patient having been thrown upon the ground or into an open vault or drain, whence by seepage surface drainage they were carried into a spring, well, or other source of water supply. A wellknown instance is an epidemic in an eastern city of about eight thousand population. Within a few weeks there were more than one thousand cases and over one hundred deaths.

The water supply of this community is obtained from a mountain brook.

It was contaminated by the discharges from a single typhoid fever patient thrown upon the snow, in winter, near the headwaters of the stream.