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stored in ice houses, and when later put with the ice into 
drinking water, may cause typhoid fever. It is, therefore, 
important that we have plenty of pure water, and we should 
do all we can to help in giving the town or city in which we 
live a pure water supply. 
STUDENT REPORT 
Prepare a report on the water supply in your locality and find where 
it comes from. What measures are taken to keep the sources and res¬ 
ervoir clean? 
383. Keeping Well. — Our best doctors are spending 
much effort in showing how to avoid disease, for no one is 
benefited by illness. The old notion, that children should 
IF 
THESE CASES THESE CASES 
The Story of the Epidehtc of Septic Sore Throat at Rockville Centre, L. I. 
Figure 427. 
be exposed to measles, scarlet fever, and whooping cough 
is wrong, for none of these childhood diseases is necessary. 
The time will come when our homes and surroundings will 
be so sanitary that the common diseases caused by germs 
will be eliminated, or at least decreased in number. 
