Prose On Own Conmsroxomtt Jukao, Ku, Oct. 3.
A severe typhoid' epidemic has broken out in this hsien along one the main canals and highways rae and several villages are. affected. The sanitary conditions of the latter are deplorable. "Scores of open and, public Tatrines fter the canal bank. Early in the morning excreta 4g found along the canal and on the streets before the beggar scavengers come to collect it and sell for a few coppers to the farmers, Dogs aboutd and each carries its filth. " Farmers come in with their vegetables "and lace them upon the "cobblestone upon the Cleanliness is utterly lacking.
During the year heavy rains washed much of the with from the villages into the canal, The possibility contamination, therefore, is not prob-Jematie, but might be expected. The canal is the chief water supply of the village and inks up with smaller canals that provide water to the countryside, The result undoubtedly has been that the whole area polluted because of the water supply. Not infrequently clothes are washed in the same canal.
For drinking purposes all water is dolled, but for washing dishes and vegetables it Is not. All vegetables fare washed by the farmers in the canal, and often just before they are offered for sale on the street are frst immersed in the canal, basket and all, and then carried to the market, In the village such vegetables are not thoroughly cooked or steamed, but mixed with a little water and all, and in a green state are eaten by the population.
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