.Ut,
f '^ *u 'I


-. ,
 *'V -~


COOQN8TITrmUEN Of OLMATB'


of the year, while


'':


those who drank pure Wbtqr


: ver during the late summer and autumnal months.


belief is


prevalent in


the south of India, .and in


We.


' deiseb, Canara, Balaghut, and Mysore, and in


the d


aasd district."


"It is notorious," says


Bettin


Madras


Oivil


Service,


" that


water


produces


fe0VOeBt


aifections of


the spleen.


presents conclusive evid


Parkes


adduces


similar


evidence


from


various.


France, and


water."*


from what


happens oi


states


water are more fatal than others.


n ships furnished wilAW4
Fevers produced by hoiplj
It is not improbable ttlJ86


malarious affections which have been so prevalent in the Cit,


New


York, in


older as well as


in the newer districts,


* *1 ,tt.


*^


been caused


by the Oroton water


bringing the malarious g


from


sources


the streams


the severe droughts of ea


mer and very small supply of snow in winter,


last eight or


nine


years,


having


caused


as


characteriziag
has already


stated,


an unusual


development


malarial


fever,


reader


many localities,


which had


been proverbially


healthy,


jualt t1


reverse.


The water of


many wells


Florida


is clear and sweet, a


'4
'1


therefore regarded


as perfectly suitable for drinking and.


'ing, but a proper examination would show it to be en rely uaot
though less so than that from the shallow wells and bro~okt


frequently used by the country people.


It was supposed,


* u"


boring down to or through the coral rock underlying tber


Safe drinking-water would


amll


.be.tiful


amount


be obtained.


of sulphuretted hydrogen


palatable, and


This water, a
Is has pusawd


far better than any wellot


diMtr;- but it gives, on chemical analysis, too large a


.salts and of' organic matter to render it perftcldyo.


a ety fair


asubitute okr ia water- tho t*
 a S at ^ I-.^.^.


wAsq. It&$W ia.. st


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1:;,


L.i~i


111


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