A QUESTION OF PUBLIC HEALTH 



EXHIBIT OF MODELS ILLUSTRATING POLU'TIOX OF NEW VoHK llAHHoK 

 WATERS AND SCIENTIFIC METHODS FOR THE DISPOSAL OF ( ITY SEWAGE 



Ihl C-E. A. U'lnsloic 



C]'i\ lite pi'csciits pressiny' and ])cciiliar hioloyical |)r()l)l('iiis. Wlicn 

 u ^Tcat minilxT of liuiiiaii hciiius ai'c coiicciiTratcd within a small 

 area, the t'linduniental needs of indi\i(liial life must he met hy the 

 latest j)erfected methods. Ks])eeially should this hold true in the preven- 

 tion of epidemics, which always threaten crowded eonununities; and in 

 ti;uai"din<;- apiinst disease the first essential is the proper remo\al of the waste 

 products whieh ace()mj)any all lixiiiii' processes. One of the <ireatest jiroh- 

 lenis which confronts a niodci'ii municipality is here encountered, for fi'om 

 every lar^e city there ])()urs out a ri\er of waste material which pollutes 

 streams, harbors and foreshores, si)oiliiis>' whut shoidd he the pleasure-sj)ots 

 of tlie city, damayiiiii' i)roperty and e\'en eiidani;erin,u' health and Hfc. 



New York is more fortunate than most cities in the lar^c bodies of water 

 which wash its shores, but to-day the disj)osal of its waste material has 

 become a serious problem and one which demands prompt solution. The 

 Metropolitan Seweraj^e Commission which lias recently published the residts 

 of its imj)orta-nt investif^ations will shortly make an exhibit of its work at 

 the American Museum, and the Museum's Department of Public Health 

 has prepared a series of models ilhistratinti' on the one hand local coiidition.s 

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