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Compare Brooklyn with Pittsburg and Allegheny.
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Brooklyn deaths 20, 593 of which 194 were typhoid. Pittsburg and Allegheny deaths, 7,328, of which 496 were typhoid, or, with 1/3 the of deaths 2 1/2 times the deaths from typhoid fever. Compare Cincinnati with New Orleans; New Orleans with 235 more deaths and ____ the number of deaths from typhoid.
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It has been suggested that the water from Apple Creek by filtered. Land or mechanical filtration is for large quantities unsatisfactory, unless most carefully watched, and very expensive. Cities adopting it now do so under the stress only of urgent financial necessity or because no plan for obtaining naturally pure water is available. Many records of failures exist and some expensive plants have been abandoned.
    
====Water! Water!! Water!!!====
 
====Water! Water!! Water!!!====
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