. The Ontario public school hygiene . , i^. Figure 62.—Western end of Kingston Harbour. therefore, had the intake pipe laid away out in the bayover a mile from the shore, so as to extend quite beyondwhere the lake water was likely to be polluted with citysewage. As a result the annual outbreaks of typhoidfever ceased. Very few cases of this fever occurred in Kingstonagain until the early part of the winter of a number of cases occurred in different partsof the city. The citizens were again warned to boiltheir water, and meanwhile the city doctors and thelocal board of health set
. The Ontario public school hygiene . , i^. Figure 62.—Western end of Kingston Harbour. therefore, had the intake pipe laid away out in the bayover a mile from the shore, so as to extend quite beyondwhere the lake water was likely to be polluted with citysewage. As a result the annual outbreaks of typhoidfever ceased. Very few cases of this fever occurred in Kingstonagain until the early part of the winter of a number of cases occurred in different partsof the city. The citizens were again warned to boiltheir water, and meanwhile the city doctors and thelocal board of health set to work to find out the sourceof the infection. After a good deal of work, the cause was was a leak in the suction pipe not far from theshore. During one of the autumn gales, a vessel had LAKE WATER 153 come into the harbour for shelter and had cast anchornot far away from the intake pipe. The anchor did nothold fast, and the vessel dragged it along the bottom
Size: 2195px × 1138px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdec, booksubjectchildren, booksubjecthygiene
