TYPHOID FEVEE IN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 
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Bottling . — The bottling is done in a large well-aired place, the 
ground floor of a small brick building, open to the street. Returned 
bottles are used and are washed in spring water which has been heated 
in a hot-water boiler. The}^ are filled direct from taps connected 
with the storage tanks and immediately stoppered and sealed. 
Glass stoppers are used for the half-gallon bottles and corks for 
those of larger sizes; these, when old, are washed before using. 
A chemical and bacteriological examination of a sample (No. 457) 
taken from the storage-tank tap gave no indications of injurious 
pollution. 
F. H. FINLEY & SON. 
[Massachusetts avenue and Second street NE.] 
This firm manufactures a variety of carbonated and soda waters 
and a distilled water for table use. The establishment is a fair-sized 
one and well kept. The basis for all its products is said to be distilled 
tap water, which is filtered before being distilled. 
The distilled water flows from the patent condenser into enamel- 
lined tanks. The bottles used for distilled water are washed in warm 
alkaline tap water, riused, and then filled at a tap connected directly 
with the above-mentioned enamel-lined tanks. The half-gallon 
bottles are stoppered with a porcelain stopper, those of larger size 
with new corks wrapped in tin foil. 
A bottled sample (No. 458) obtained at the bottliug establishment 
showed, chemically, no evidence of pollution; but bacteriologically 
showed some contamination in the handliug, but not of an injurious 
character. 
GITCHE CRYSTAL SPRING WATER. 
[Geo. N. Beebe, 1729 Florida avenue.] 
This water is one of the most extensively used in the city. It is 
obtained from a spring near Bennmgs, D. C. The spring appears on 
the slope of a wooded, uninhabited hill, where it is completely cov- 
ered over and sealed and from which the water is piped to a small 
wooden galvanized iron-lined tank in a shack at the base of the hill. 
The tank holds about 1,000 gallons and serves the purpose of a reser- 
voir. From this reservoir it is pumped into wooden paraffin-lined 
tanks, in which the water is hauled to the city and delivered to the 
consumer at his door. 
The delivery tank is provided with a manhole, closed with a tin 
cover, which is not air-tight, so that as the water is drawm the street 
air, more or less dust-laden, enters. The interior is cleansed and 
reparaffined from time to time. 
Chemical and bacteriological examination of a sample (No. 357) 
taken from the waste pipe leading from the tank showed no evidence 
of pollution. 
