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Prof. Kedzie of the agrienltural college, has been iBakliig ui analyslu ofthewell and hydrant water hk'b has beañ sent hiin f rom Plymouth, Pa., the villaze In whieh fhe malignanttypboiu (ever epidemie rage. He is posltive that the Jisease is due to the water whieh has been ?ousumed. Upon one side of a eertain Street ivhrru hyüraut water s used thé fover rages, ivliile upon the opposite Blde ulusv tliere fe (veil there is 110 lever. Fot a period this spring water was taken f rom the Susqueuanna rfver, whers the reservoirs ot the Water company were low. 'l'his water held the sewerage of Wllkesbarre, Pittam aml Scranton and alsothe sulphur water írom severa] mines. The water which Prof. Kedzle analyzed was taken from a well and hydrant. The uell was in :i yanl near a privv vai'ilt and seven ehildren ofthefamilj ft-hjeh usecl the water have been 11. Botli jars upou being opened emitted au offensive odor. Tne water was Ulied wüh white flecky substanee3 and both specimens, wlun experimenta were made for uitrates, gave a marked preelp tate. Both waters turned tnv dark. In th bottom of a te.t tuin1 oontalning three inche of Wfill water, there is a dark deposlt of on inch ileep. 'l'he tnicroscope disclosed the fae j that the water was ful) oí low animal n vegetable lile. The outliue of onc of the form ' suggested a bed bug wirh a seini-transparen ; eenier, which moved rapidly throneli the iho I In the slide qr ejije swnnaround na circle 4uother fornj rnóved l)v altérnate); contrae Ing and eïpaadlng itséjf. stanyof uieforn Prol1. Keilzie luiil n -ver secn bcl'ore. IJepn uounced tho water ib unlit tor even eiilimir use, and as being the worst he had ove analyzed. The hydrant wgter disclosed tb I lanjé bad. gomposltiou as the wcll water,
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