^UR Committee on Pollution of State Waters, in 
the Report by Dr. Daniel D. Jackson, entitled 
Pollution of New York Harbor as a Menace to Health 
by the Dissemination of Intestinal Diseases Through 
the Agency of the “Common House Fly,” published 
by the Association, directed attention to the effect 
upon the public health, particularly in the matter of 
intestinal diseases, due to the accumulation of human 
excreta and similar substances upon the City’s water¬ 
front. In the article “Typhoid Fever—The Story of 
the Fly That Doesn’t Wipe Its Feet.”—Dr. Woods 
Hutchinson, the author, shows that polluted streams, 
poisoned oysters fattened in such waters, and the 
common house fly cause and spread Typhoid. 
In the pursuit of its campaign of education and 
advocacy of the adoption of modern sanitary methods 
for the disposal of sewage, the Committee on Pollu¬ 
tion of State Waters reprints the following Article ; 
“ The Pest At Our Gates,” by Poultney Bigelow, 
M. A., F. R. G. S., which is a strong indictment of 
the practice of polluting the principal rivers and har¬ 
bors throughout the United States. The article gives 
statistics as to the conditions existing in the different 
sections of the country and the loss, in health and in 
money, resulting from Typhoid. 
Mr. Bigelow holds that modern science through 
its improved methods of sewage disposal has ad¬ 
vanced far enough to make the pollution of streams 
entirely unnecessary. 
