The floods in East Norfolk this week have been the worst known for over half a century. High tides com-numbers of cattle were drowned, ar most curious loss of all. quantities ai fresh-water fish were killed by the salt water pouring into streams and creeks. How long it will be before the floods subside and what the damage to the soil from salt waler, it is impossible to estimate.
The fen country has been a good deal in the public eye in the past year or two, and highly expensive Schemes have been propounded for no system, The Commission was appointed it ihe Jatter part of November, when already 72 cases of typhoid and six deaths had been notified. The epi-domic numbered 310 cases and 43 deaths before it was ended.
The cause was fairly early traced to the Addington Well, one of several supplying a large area in Croydon, which since October had been undergoing structural alteration: During is time water from the well as being pumped into the Croydon mains unfiltered and unchlorinated, And one of the men working on the well was found to be an unknowing corrier of the typhoid bacinus.
The men at the well were not regular waterwoi men, but volunteer recruited mostly from sewer workers. The Commission records that seven of. them did not look any too healthy and particularly not the typhoid germ-carried, Formerly wearing glasses constantly, many now
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