Environmental Pollution: Discharge of Raw Human Wastes from Railroad Trains: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-first Congress, Second Session. July 28, 1970, Volumes 74-77

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Page 71 - I believe that in the well-drained, but cool and moist soil under the ties and ballast of a modern railway roadbed baptized day after day and year after year with the albuminous fluids of human excrement, the bacillus typhosus once planted in this natural culture medium, will lie forever, revitalized by new infection, perhaps, but in the meantime facultative enough to meet seasonal and other changes and remain potent.
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