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TYPHOID FEVEK IH DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 
MAGNESIA CEY^STAL TABLE WATEE. 
[Office and springs, 117 Anacostia road. District of Colmnbia.] 
The label on bottles of this water is misleading in that it is in- 
tended to create the impression that it is a spring water, whereas it 
is pumped from a well, bottled, and sold. 
LABEL. 
Magnesia Crystal Table Water 
The purest and healthiest 
of table waters. 
Office and springs: 
117 Anacostia Road, D. C. 
Win. B. Young, 
Manager. 
^yeTl . — The well is at the rear entrance of the dwelling at 117 
Anacostia road. The well is said to be lined with brick which are 
laid in cement above the level of the water. It is covered by a 
board platform, the seams of which are caulked. About 25 feet from 
the pump is a box privy, the drainage from which is in a direction 
away from the well. 
Bottling . — The bottles are washed in the well water, sand being 
used when thought necessarj^. The bottles are filled by pumping 
directly into them and are then cork stoppered. Keturned corks are 
washed and used over again. 
Chemical and bacteriological examination of samples (Nos. 394 and 
456) taken at the well gives e^fidence of sewage pollution. 
This water has been on the market only two or three months. 
PUEE TABLE WATEE. 
[Home Ice Company, Twelfth and V streets NW.] 
This water comes from a bored well 60 feet deep on the premises 
of the Home Ice Compan}^. The water is forced up by air pressure 
and piped to an enamel-lined tank, from which the bottles in which 
it is sold are filled. 
Bottling . — The bottles are washed by hand in the well water and 
are then filled through a funnel from a tap connected with the 
enamel-lined tank. In the filling the water is strained through some 
cheese cloth in order to exclude sand grains and other foreign par- 
ticles. This water has been on the market about two months. 
A specimen (No. 238) of this water gave no evidence of recent pol- 
lution by either bacteriological or chemical examination. 
