INFECTED WATER.
AMERICAN CITIES’ PLIGHT. Washington, July 21. Thirty million Lnited States city r» sidents are menaced by infected drinking water because the authorities are unable to obtain alum and chloride for purification owing to railway congestion. Medical! officers are alarmed at the prospects of a gigantic epidemic of typhoid fever and are making frantic appeals to Washington for supplies of chemicals. —(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 187, 23 July 1920, Page 5
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