. Public health papers and reports presented at the ... annual meeting of the American Public Health HYGIENIC NOTES MADE ON A JOURNEY THROUGH ITALY. 31 The accompanying curve of the typhoid mortality in Naples for elevenyears, ending 1892 (the last published report of the provincial physician),shows the decided influence of the late sanitary measures which I haveendeavored to make clear in the preceding pages. ROME. Modern Rome is supplied by four aqueducts yielding the plentifuldaily supply of 600 liters a head. A good deal of this water goes to sup-ply fountains—the amount goin
. Public health papers and reports presented at the ... annual meeting of the American Public Health HYGIENIC NOTES MADE ON A JOURNEY THROUGH ITALY. 31 The accompanying curve of the typhoid mortality in Naples for elevenyears, ending 1892 (the last published report of the provincial physician),shows the decided influence of the late sanitary measures which I haveendeavored to make clear in the preceding pages. ROME. Modern Rome is supplied by four aqueducts yielding the plentifuldaily supply of 600 liters a head. A good deal of this water goes to sup-ply fountains—the amount going to one alone, the Fontana Trevi, beingsufficient to supply a respectable community. Though it is delightful andrefreshing to see the numerous fountains playing, the idea strikes one thatperhaps it would be better if a little less water played in the fountains,and a little more were used in the households and on the persons of thepeople. How far behind the ancient Roman cities are in this respect ourmodern ones all over the world ! What is Rome of to-day with its fouraqueducts and occasional fountains to t
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