. Infant mortality : results of a field study in Johnstown, Pa., based on births in one calendar year. THE CONEMAUGH RIVER. View from foot of bridge at end of Johns Street, just above the point where the Conemaughand Stony Creel< meet. The sewer drainage settles in ths ditch alongside the retainingwall for perhaps 150 feet before reaching the sluggish current of the river itself. Whenthe ditch becomes clogged it is dugout, and the contents thrown on the dry bed betweenthe ditch and the river must remain there until washed into the middle of the streamby high water. PLATE P Infant Mortality:

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. Infant mortality : results of a field study in Johnstown, Pa., based on births in one calendar year. THE CONEMAUGH RIVER. View from foot of bridge at end of Johns Street, just above the point where the Conemaughand Stony Creel< meet. The sewer drainage settles in ths ditch alongside the retainingwall for perhaps 150 feet before reaching the sluggish current of the river itself. Whenthe ditch becomes clogged it is dugout, and the contents thrown on the dry bed betweenthe ditch and the river must remain there until washed into the middle of the streamby high water. PLATE P Infant Mortality: Johnstown, Pa., A CLubER VIEW OF THE DISCHARGE FROM A SEWER OUTLET SET IN THERETAINING WALL ALONG STONY CREEK. Taken at extreme east end of the Haynes Street footbridge, where odors from the streamare especially offensive. Note that the sewage does not enter the water directly but in away liable to promote nuisance. PLATE Q Infant Mortality: Jolinstown, Pa., 1913.

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