Bulletin, Issue 154U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909 - Plants |
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2-inch iron 25 feet 30 feet Abundant Analyses barn and stables barnyard Blue clay chicken house cistern Cisterns.-None condition of farmhouse corncrib date of visit Date of visit.-August Date of visit.-July Date of visit.-September Drinking farm purposes farmhouse and outbuildings.-House feet from house feet in depth granary hardpan hogpen house and outbuildings ice house inches Iron pump Kind of farming.-Dairy Kind of farming.-General location of buildings Method of lifting Middle Branch River milk house Minn open vault polluted supply ponds Price privy poor Red Lake River Sanitary aspect sanitary care poor Sanitary condition showing the topography Sketch showing slope Source of water spring springs.-None stables fair stables poor stables very poor Surface soil surface wash Thief River Falls tool shed typhoid fever unprotected vault vault and unprotected vicinity of drilled vicinity of driven vicinity of dug wagon shed water supply.—(See fig Water-borne diseases.-None recorded windmill Yield
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Page 81 - One spring supply is pol luted because of poor surface protection and could easily be made safe. The rivers, surface reservoirs, and cisterns are polluted, and it is doubtful whether satisfactory supplies can be secured for farm use from such sources. Where their use is necessary, water for drinking should be boiled or otherwise disinfected. " During this investigation 23 of the farms examined showed a record of typhoid fever. On 11 of these farms it was found impossible -to locate the source of...
Page 1 - LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF, Washington, DC, April 15, 1911.
Page 18 - ... pollution with fecal matter. Contamination must be considered as potential infection.) Besides this, it must be practically clear, colorless, odorless, and reasonably free from objectionable chemical salts in solution and from microscopic organisms in suspension. Moreover, it must be well aerated. Color, turbidity, odor, dissolved salts, etc., may be permissible to a small degree without throwing the water outside of the definition of pure and wholesome waters. In these minor matters local standards...
Page 15 - Standard Methods of Water Analysis of the American Public Health Association, as set forth in Standard Methods of Water Analysis (APHA, 1912).
Page 18 - ... used for drinking. Such a water must be free from all poisonous substances, as the salts of lead; it must be free from bacteria or other organisms °The Red Lake River, on which four of the supplies examined were located.
Page 17 - pure and wholesome water' as ordinarily used, relates to water intended to be used for drinking. Such a water must be free from from all poisonous substances, as the salts of lead; it must be free from bacteria or other organisms liable to cause disease, such as the bacilli of typhoid fever or dysentery; it must also be free from bacteria of fecal origin, such as B.
Page 1 - ... by Dr. HM Bracken, Secretary of the Minnesota State Board of Health, and his colleagues Dr.
Page 14 - ... air, seeds and spores of plants, and even vegetable growths. Priming is usually necessary in cistern pumps, and when waterborne diseases are present in the home this practice may prove a very dangerous factor in the transmission of disease. The quality of cistern water may be much improved by installing a device for turning away the water caught during the first part of a shower. This secures a thorough washing of the roof before any water enters the cistern. A two-compartment cistern so constructed...
Page 81 - ... cisterns are polluted, and it is doubtful whether satisfactory supplies can be secured for farm use from such sources. Where their use is necessary, water for drinking should be boiled or otherwise disinfected. " During this investigation 23 of the farms examined showed a record of typhoid fever. On 11 of these farms it was found impossible -to locate the source of infection, on 2 farms possible sources were determined, while on 10 the data seemed to locate definitely the source of infection....
Page 10 - Dole, RB, and Wesbrook, FF The Quality of Surface Waters in Minnesota. US Geological Survey Bui., Water-Supply and Irrigation Paper No.