Public documents of the State of Connecticut . see a patient about fifteen years old. The house in which hewas sick and its surroundings were extremely filthy. The ownerof the house had never constructed a cesspool, the waste waterfrom the sink falling on the surface of the ground had found alittle channel and had formed a pool immediately beneath thewindow of the sick room (on the first floor), into which the slopsand undoubtedly the urinary excretions from the family, had run,or been poured, and then allowed to remain, so much as was notabsorbed by the soil, or evaporated. As a consequence,
Public documents of the State of Connecticut . see a patient about fifteen years old. The house in which hewas sick and its surroundings were extremely filthy. The ownerof the house had never constructed a cesspool, the waste waterfrom the sink falling on the surface of the ground had found alittle channel and had formed a pool immediately beneath thewindow of the sick room (on the first floor), into which the slopsand undoubtedly the urinary excretions from the family, had run,or been poured, and then allowed to remain, so much as was notabsorbed by the soil, or evaporated. As a consequence, a peculiarmusty odor, not especially offensive, permeated the house when-ever the windows were opened, and for that matter, more or less,at all times. The privy vault, not above thirty feet away, hadlong been used and apparently never cleaned. In this unwholesome, ?BRICK SEWERS FOR SEWERAGE ANDALL RAIN WATER. ^^^^^SZ^BOUNDARIES OF DRAINAGE DISTRICTS. DRAINAGE DISTRICTS. OF THE FATAL CASES —OF— TYPHOID FEVER 18S3 DYSENTERY 1S86. DYSENTERY IN WATEKBURY. 279 poisonous air and unsanitary surroundings, four cases of dysen-tery occurred, the boy above mentioned—now partially recovered—two sisters, younger, were attacked, each after an interval of aweek, sickened and died, and finally the mother became a victim,but recovered. Besides the cases in this house, a patient in the adjoininghouse was ill with the complaint for several weeks, and fourmembers of another family, next north, between which and thehouse with the fatal cases, the nuisance was situated. In all ninecases, to which no other cause, save those mentioned, could beascribed. This unsanitary condition without any doubt existedlast year, yet we had no dysentery. Why the glandular struc-ture of the large intestine should be affected this year, instead oflast, no one can tell. Nor can it be told why the poison oftyphoid fever should evince an affinity for the glands of the smallintestine, one year, more than
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