276 WlSGONSm STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 
gives much material for profitable study, and contributes materially 
to our knowledge of the sanitary condition of the state. But it 
may not be amiss here more particularly to call your attention, by 
short extracts from a few of these reports, to the opinions of these 
correspondents concerning the need of, and benefits which may re¬ 
sult from, sanitary improvements: 
Hoscohel. — The sanitary condition of this locality might be im¬ 
proved by thoroughly policing the streets and alleys, caring for 
drains and cesspools, and suppressing the sale of unwholesome 
food, such as unripe and decayed vegetables. 
Oconto. — Sanitary condition improvable by a system of sewerage, 
of which there is none. Dwelling houses are low, badly ventilated 
and overcrowded, and inhabitants suffer from diseases resulting 
from such causes of filth. 
Jjeloit. — Typhoid fever and dysentery of severe type have pre¬ 
vailed here. Believe it to be from low state of water in streams and 
ponds, and preventable by regulating use of water at dams. 
Green Bay. — The sewerage of this city is bad— there is almost 
none. Most of the city is built on flat land, which has a surface of 
alluvium, varying from two to ten feet, and a substratum of clay 
from eighty to one hundred feet in depth. This alluvium is rapidly 
becoming saturated with filth, when the city will experience the 
dire effects of sanitary neglect. 
Milwaukee. — The sanitary condition of this place can be made 
better by improving our systems of sewerage. At this time most 
of the sewers in the city discharge their contents into an almost 
currentless stream, converting it into a cesspool from which large 
quantities of malarial poison emanate. 
Omro. — This town is situated on a sluggish stream with low 
banks. Malarial fevers abound. We are supplied with pure foun¬ 
tain water, but drainage is very imperfect, and the surplus water 
from the fountains finds its way to the river under stables, out¬ 
houses, and through other impurities, impregnating the air by its 
evaporation. 
Chippewa Falls. — Want of cleanliness, with slops and refuse, 
with improper food and stagnant water, have been productive of 
disease which might have been prevented by sewerage, and by 
draining and filling the low places, which.are now receptacles of 
malaria. 
