Identifier: annalsofhygiene1188penn (find matches)
Title: Annals of hygiene
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Pennsylvania. State Board of Health
Subjects: Hygiene Public Health
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press (etc.)
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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ore throat,and he set about to learn wherein hisdrainage was defective. A concealedsoil-pipe was found in the wall of hisstudy, perforated at several points, andending below the floor in a broken junc-tion with the drain. These defects were that sewer gases will cause apoplexy,but we do say that the almost constantinhalation of sewer gases will so vitiateand depress the system as to materi-ally retard the recovery from anytraumatism or shock, whether it becaused by apoplexy or anything else.Therefore we can safely say (strange 300 THE ANNALS OF HYGIENE. as it may seem) that Mr. Manning is THE CONTAMINATION OF not now actively at the head of the WELLS. Treasury Department, because the drain pipes in his private office were not Colonel William Ludlow, late Chiel securely trapped. Those of our readers Engineer of the Philadelphia Water who think that Mr. Manning made an Department, has said that there is not excellent secretary, will be able to un- a well in this city, the water of which
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derstand how this sanitary neglect ina little room in Washington has unfor-tunately reacted upon the whole coun-try. In our November issue we willgive a drawing exactly illustrating thedefects in Mr. Mannings office. is fit to drink. The above drawing willexplain why. We have here a profileview of a sewer, into which housedrains empty. We see that the jointsof the drains are leaky, and the darkshading shows us the sewage percolat- THE ANNALS OF HYGIENE. 301 ing through the earth into the waterwell, while the three women ahove aretaking back into their bodies that whichbut a short time before they have dis-carded as excrementitious. The nu-merous privy vaults (relics of the darkages) and leaky sewers will really makethe water of almost any well in a largecity unwholesome. In the country districts the samedanger is to be apprehended from theproximity of the privy to the waterwell. At the present time there are twocases of so-called Typhoid Fever inManayunk (Pa). The victims drankwater f

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