. Town and city. ons who had the fever were those who used water from the 107 io8 TOWN AND CITV f 4tli Reservoir ^^ House from which the^Infection came mountain stream, and men were sent at once to examinethe banks and the reservoirs. The road they took led them past the reservoirs oneby one until they had nearly reached the last of the four;and here, beside the bank, was the house that caused all the trouble. Only twohouses were anywherenear the stream, yet all themischief came from one ofthem. It seems that throughthe winter a man hadbeen ill there with typhoidfever, and that while hewas ill
. Town and city. ons who had the fever were those who used water from the 107 io8 TOWN AND CITV f 4tli Reservoir ^^ House from which the^Infection came mountain stream, and men were sent at once to examinethe banks and the reservoirs. The road they took led them past the reservoirs oneby one until they had nearly reached the last of the four;and here, beside the bank, was the house that caused all the trouble. Only twohouses were anywherenear the stream, yet all themischief came from one ofthem. It seems that throughthe winter a man hadbeen ill there with typhoidfever, and that while hewas ill his nurse had usedthe river bank as theemptying place for every-thing that passed from hisbody. The ground wasfrozen at the time, but welearned in Good Healththat cold does not killmicrobes. On the contrary, when spring came theythawed out with the snow, and trickled down the banksand into the stream with the melted ice; from there theyreached the reservoirs and were carried to the peoplethrough the water Map of Plymouth, Pennsylvania,IN 1881; GETllNG WATER TO TOWN 109 In fact, there was no question about the history of thatwater, and it was easy to understand where all the illnesscame from. Every doctor knew that the microbes fromone man had given the disease to eleven hundred otherpeople. Besides the illness and death in the city there wasthe expense of it. It cost Plymouth eight thousand dol-lars to maintain a hospital for the patients. In addi-tion there was the loss of time and wages, with so manyother expenses that it really cost the town over sixty-seven thousand dollars to have those microbes in herdrinking water, — enough to have paid the salary of aman to watch the banks for many years. No wonder theloss taught a great lesson to the entire country. To show why towns sometimes need to bring waterfrom a distance and how they do it, take the case ofOberlin, Ohio, with its five thousand inhabitants. Formerly many families in the place used well waterfor drinkin
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