Conservation of Potable Water and the Dual System of Distribution

摘要

Many members of this Association will recall the first installations of mechanical filters and those of us who undertook the work of installations in the late eighties will recall the spirit of incredulity with which the propositions were received. The whole germ theory of disease was in its infancy and the real science of filtration can be said to have developed coevally with the investigation and classification of bacteria. ... The sanitarians and engineers have accomplished great things and have worked so persistently that every home has caught the slogans: "Swat the Fly," "Squirt the Flea," "Oil the Mosquito," "Coagulate the Bacteria," set the different tribes at warfare, a thousand times more fierce and numerous than the war among the Bulgarians. Put all the survivors to sleep with a little Hypo, and still when we return to our favorite beverage, with a little water on the side, there is perched the eternal germ, blinking away from the drowse to which he was chlorited.