TYPHOID FEVEPt IFT DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 
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LABEL. 
Arlington Springs. 
Keep in a cool place and laid on its side. 
Arlington Springs Mineral Water. 
A. B. Co. 
Trade mark 
Bottled by the 
Arlington Bottling Co. 
Chas. Jacobsen, Proprietor. 
Washington, D. C. 
These names and the labels on the bottles are misleading as to the 
character of the contents. They are all filtered tap water to which 
salts are added and then artificially carbonated. 
Samples were taken of the filtered tap water (No. 384), and bottles 
of the ^ ^Sparkling Rock Spring Lithia” (No. 461), “Arlington Spring 
Mineral Water” (No. 462), and ^^Sprudel Wiesbadner Wasser” (No. 
463) were obtained at the bottling establishment and submitted to 
bacteriological and chemical examination. None of these showed 
indications of injurious pollution. 
NORWOOD ARTESIAN WATER COMPANY. 
[1804 U street NW.] 
This company bottles and sells water filtered through a Berkefeld 
filter from a so-called artesian well. 
Well . — The well is on the premises of Dr. Ralph Walsh, on Norwood 
Heights. It is about 75 feet from the nearest dwelling, and about 
200 feet distant from it is a priv}^ and somewhat nearer a barn. The 
surface drainage from the barn and privy is away from the well. 
The well is said to be about 200 feet deep. The water is pumped 
into a 3,000-gallon tank, from which it is drawm daily into barrels and 
carboys in the quantity needed and hauled to 1804 H street. Here, 
in a clean, air}^ cellar, the water, after being pumped from the barrel 
or carboy and forced through a Berkefeld filter, is bottled. 
Bottling bottles are cleaned with tap water and sand and 
rinsed with the filtered well water, with which they are filled directly 
as it flows through a rubber tube from the Berkefeld filter. 
Half-gallon bottles are stoppered with porcelain stoppers, which 
are provided with rubber gaskets, all of which are washed in the 
filtered water before using. The larger carboys are cork stoppered. 
Samples were taken at the city depot of the raw unfiltered water 
(Nos. 409 and 466) and of the water immediately after it had been 
forced through the Berkefeld filter (Nos. 410, 467, and 468). Chemi- 
cal and bacteriological examination gave evidence of pollution in this 
water ; considering all the circumstances this is probably due to the 
method of handling. 
