Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Survey of the Public Health Situation, Ithaca, New York, 1914
Eleven years ago, in 19-03, a great typhoid epidemic visited Ithaca. Close on persons, or a tenth of the entire population, were obliged to submit to the hazards of the disease, and to the accompanying physical and economic losses. About eighty-two persons lost their lives. This epidemic, caused by an impure water supply, was such a tremendous object lesson in the importance of efficient public sanitation as to stir ithaca to immediate action. The water supply was purified at large expense, and the great excess of typhoid disappeared. Other sanitary improvements were made; and the city settled down once more to routine dife. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
