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TYPHOID FEVEE IX DISTEICT OF COLHMBIA. 
The bottles used are secondhand and bought from grocers and 
private families. They are washed inside and out with ordinary tap 
water, using sand with the water jet for the interior when the condi- 
tion of the bottle demands it. After a final rinsing with the tap 
water and draining the bottle is readv for filhng. 
The bottles are filled from carboys or barrels by siphonage through 
a rubber tube. The siphon action is started by suction with the 
mouth. After filling, the bottles are stoppered with corks which are 
mostly new, but old corks before beiog used agaiu are washed ia a 
stream of hot water. 
Distilled water . — The boiler used for heating the place of busiuess 
is also used for generating the steam which is used for making the 
distfiled water. The steam is condensed m a jacketed cod of iron 
pipe and the water collected and cooled iu a galvanized-iron tank, 
which was loosely covered with a sheet of the same material. The 
tank is iu a closet partitioned off from the room back of the store. 
From the tank a pipe runs through the floor iuto the cedar where the 
bottliug is done. The bottling of the distdled water differs from the 
the method above described, in that the distdled water is run directly 
iuto the bottles by gravity, beiug strained through cheese cloth in the 
process. The specimen of this water (Xo. 470) obtaiued by purchase 
over the counter, shows both bacteriologicady and chemically lack of 
cleanliness iu handling. 
Pou'Jiatan Spring v:ater . — This water is hauled in 5-gallon carboys 
from the spriug, which is about 2 mdes west of BaUston, Ya. 
The spriug is at the base of a wooded hdlside, at the top of which a 
frame house was beiug erected at the time of the inspection. It is 
protected on three sides and above by brickwork. The water col- 
lects in a sort of shallow basin, from which it flows through an iron 
pipe to an adjacent ddapidated spring house, iu which there stood at 
the time of iuspection an iron kettle contaiuing some decomposing 
and evd-smelhng flesh. The appearance of the place iudicated 
neglect. 
A sample (Xo. 429) of the water taken as it flowed from the pipe iu 
the spriug house and examined chemically and bacteriologicady 
showed no evidence of pollution. 
GEE AT BEAE SPEIXG WATEE. 
[Office, 704 Eleventh street XW.] 
The spring is iu Oswego Coimty, X. Y. The water is brought to 
the city by rad iu sealed iron tanks said to be cement liued, from 
which it is pumped into simdar storage tanks at First and I streets 
SE., where the bottling is done. 
a Laboratort’ number under vMcb the bacteriological and chemical examination 
was made, and which will be found in the appended table. 
