My recommendations are: 1. That Crystal Lake (or stink pond) be abandoned, both as a source of water supply and as a storage of water, unless cleaned and prepared as a reservoir, which I do not think feasible, as it would cost at least $500,000 to put in proper condition. 2. That Solomon's creek be abandoned as a source of water supply, because of its contamination with human and animal excreta, which cannot well be remedied. 3. That the overflow reservoir at the mines be cleaned under the direction of the health officer, properly fenced, and a watchman employed to see that the place is not made a nuisance and a menace to the public health. Analysis of Water. Crystal Spring Water Company, September 6, 1895. Remarks This water shows an increase in albuminoid ammonia and decaying organic matter since the last analysis. The quality of this water is growing worse. W. H. DEAN, City Water Inspector. Copied and condensed from report to council. 62-INSPECTION CRYSTAL SPRING WATER COMPANY'S RESERVOIR, LUZERNE COUNTY. By WM. B. ATKINSON, Medical Inspector, on account of unsanitary condi tion of water supply. To the Secretary of the State Board of Health: Sir: I have the honor to report that in compliance with instructions received from you, I visited this reservoir on October 16, 1895, and found the following conditions to exist: The reservoir known now as Crystal Lake occupies some 450 acres. It is not fed by springs nor any other water source save the rainfall. Owing to a recent heavy rain, there was a small amount of water, not to exceed a few feet in depth at the deepest points. The whole surface of this reservoir is covered with a deep layer of black mud, filled with vegetable debris. In one place at least, I ascertained this deposit to be over three feet in depth. Around a portion of the edge of this swamp, which it really is, were found a large number of large stones irregularly placed, the object of which could be conjectured. Unless this reservoir is thoroughly cleaned and this black mass of mud, with its contents of vegetable debris, is entirely removed, it can not properly serve the purpose of a reservoir for potable water. The very best water could not fail to be spoiled for drinking purposes by contact with this filthy deposit. The color of the water in this reservoir was a dirty brown, and in some taken for examination, the deposit of vegetable decay was very great. I unhesitatingly condemn this place and suggest its entire abandonment as a reservoir for drinking water. I do not for a moment suggest that any effort be made to cleanse it, as I am sure the cost would be enormous, involving the removal of a very great number of loads of muck of the most dangerous form. APPENDIX C. QUARANTINE, DISINFECTION, EPIDEMICS AND SPECIAL SOURCES OF DISEASE. 1. Quarantine 1. Second Annual Report of the State Quarantine Board. 2. Notifications of Disease from the United States Commissioner of Navigation. 3. United States Quarantine Stations on Delaware Bay. 2. Disinfection Reports on destruction of soiled clothing. 3. Epidemics Diphtheria: at Cedar Springs, Clinton county. at Allentown and old Aineyville, Lehigh county. at Hulmeville, Bucks county. at Leisenring, Fayette county. at Freystown, York county. at Lewisburg, Union county. at Dalton, Lackawanna county. at Springs township. at Hoboken, Pleasant Valley and Sharpsburg, O'Hara township, Allegheny county. Scarlatina: at Eckley, Luzerne county. at Warwick, Chester county. at Conemaugh, Cambria county. at Kennett Square, Chester county. at Alexandria, Fayette county. at Parkesburg, Chester county. at Saxonburg, Butler county. at Washington township, Northampton county. at Shamokin, Northumberland county. at Bedford, Bedford county. Typhoid fever: at Carlisle, Cumberland county. at Catawissa, Columbia county. at Mount Carbon, Schuylkill county. at Johnstown, Cambria county. at McCoysville, Juniata county. at Northumberland, Northumberland county. at Coleville, Centre county. at Townville, Crawford county. at Clarington, Forest county. at Casselman, Somerset county. at Venice, Allegheny county. in Point township. at Pittsburg, Allegheny county. at Lykens, Dauphin county. at Curwensville, Clearfield county. 4. Special Sources of Disease Epidemic of Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis. Tubercle Bacilli in Human Milk. Tuberculosis from Milk. Improved Sewage Plant of the City of Reading. Salting Railway Tracks. Sudden Deaths from Insect Bites. 1-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE QUARANTINE BOARD OF PENNSYLVANIA, FOR THE PORT OF PHILADELPHIA, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JULY 1, 1895. To the State Board of Health of Pennsylvania: Gentlemen: The undersigned beg leave respectfully to present the following report: In addition to its regular monthly meetings, the Board has, during the past year held many special meetings. These have been necessitated by new legislation with regard to the duties and functions of the Board and the required change in the location of its station, as well as by the presence at one time of a large number of suspects at the Lazaretto. Appointments. In consequence of the change in the administration of the State which took place at the first of January, the Board was reluctantly compelled to accept the resignation of Major Moses Veale, the health officer of Philadelphia, who had presided over its deliberations with great acceptability since its organization. His legal knowledge and long experience in sanitary administration gave him a peculiar fitness for the position. His place has been filled by the appointment, by his excellency, the Governor, of Mr. Theodore B. Stulb, a prominent citizen of Philadelphia. Henry M. DuBois, Esq., the appointee of his honor, the mayor of Philadelphia, upon the expiration of his term of office, was reappointed by the newly elected mayor. The term of Dr. Ernest Laplace, the appointee of the Governor, has also expired, but his successor has not yet been named. Legislation. The Legislature of 1893 required that the Board should vacate the premises at Tinicum, on the first day of July, 1895. The act of 1895, however, extended this limit to October 1, 1895. The Board was continued as previously organized, but while it was instructed to procure, either by lease or purchase, a suitable plot of ground on the Delaware as a station, it was enacted that this station was to be used only for purposes of observation and inspection and not for those of disinfection or detention of suspects. The Board has in view for this purpose a property in the borough of Marcus Hook, |