A manual of practical hygiene for students, physicians, and health officers . too conservative. Infact, the improvements noted at Lawrence, Mass., and Lowell, Mass.,seemed to indicate that in the former city deaths and in the lattercity 6 deaths were avoided from causes other than typhoid fever, where1 death from typhoid fever had been avoided by the substitution of apure for a polluted water supply. The following tables, taken from the article by Sedgwick andMacNutt, show graphically the effect of this substitution, both uponthe typhoid fever death-rate and upon the total death-rate, minu
A manual of practical hygiene for students, physicians, and health officers . too conservative. Infact, the improvements noted at Lawrence, Mass., and Lowell, Mass.,seemed to indicate that in the former city deaths and in the lattercity 6 deaths were avoided from causes other than typhoid fever, where1 death from typhoid fever had been avoided by the substitution of apure for a polluted water supply. The following tables, taken from the article by Sedgwick andMacNutt, show graphically the effect of this substitution, both uponthe typhoid fever death-rate and upon the total death-rate, minus thetyphoid component, for the cities of Lawrence and Lowell, Mass. Itwill be noted that the unused portions of the scale below each curvehave been cut off, so that no base lines are shown : ^ On the Mills-Reincke Phenomenon and Hazens Theorem concernins; the decreasein mortality from diseases othei than tyjihoid fever, following the purification of publicwater supplies. Journal of Infectious , Aug., 1910. WAIhn DISK ASK. Vut. ., RATES-LAWRENCE, MASS. 420.
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