The hygiene of transmissible diseases; their causation, modes of dissemination, and methods of prevention . This was facilitated probably bythree factors : (i) The lowness of the water in the well; (2) the increasedamount of water which was drawn from the well at thatseason of the year, amounting practically to an aspirationupon the water in the surrounding soil; (3) the direction ofthe current of ground water, which was found to be from theprivy toward the well. In Fig. 3 will be seen the relation between the privy andthe barracks well, while in Fig. 4 Avill be seen the relationbetween the ba
The hygiene of transmissible diseases; their causation, modes of dissemination, and methods of prevention . This was facilitated probably bythree factors : (i) The lowness of the water in the well; (2) the increasedamount of water which was drawn from the well at thatseason of the year, amounting practically to an aspirationupon the water in the surrounding soil; (3) the direction ofthe current of ground water, which was found to be from theprivy toward the well. In Fig. 3 will be seen the relation between the privy andthe barracks well, while in Fig. 4 Avill be seen the relationbetween the barracks and the houses of the town, particularlythose houses in which soldiers affected with typhoid feverlodged, and those houses in which cases of the disease hadexisted in 1881, the year preceding. From the general con-ditions it was evident that suspicion pointed more strongly tothe water of the well in the yard of the barracks than to thatof the well in the neighboring Burgomeisterstrasse, for thelatter, though evidently polluted, was less likely to be specif- 76 HYGIENE OF TRAXSMISSIBLE Fig. 3.—-Plan of barracks at Wittemburg, showing the relation between buildings and well. TYPHOID FEVER. 77
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