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Document Type

Research

Abstract

The possibility of pollution of underground waters through fissures in rocks has long been a well-established fact. The actual demonstration of such as the source of cases or epidemics of disease in Iowa has until recently not been proved. It is with the idea of reporting an epidemic of typhoid fever due to pollution of this kind and of calling attention to the need of a sanitary water survey in Iowa, that I present this paper.

Publication Date

1913

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

20

Issue

1

First Page

1

Last Page

10

Copyright

©1913 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

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