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infection is likely to be introduced, has now for
so many years been before the public, that the
improved systems of refuse removal and water supply
by which those dangers are permanently obviated
for large populations, and also the minor structural
improvements by which separate households are
secured against them, ought long ago to have come
into universal use.
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So far, however, as this wiser course has not been
adopted in any Sanitary District, security must, as
far as practicable, be sought in measures of a temporary
and palliative kind.
(a) Immediate and searching examination of
sources of water-supply should be made in all cases
where the source is in any degree open to the
suspicion if impurity: and the water both from
private and public sources should be examined.
Where pollution is discovered, everything practicable
should be done to prevent the pollution from
continuing, or, if this object cannot be attained, to
prevent the water from being drunk. Cisterns
should be cleaned, and any connexions of waste
pipes with drains should be severed.
(b.) Simultaneously, there should be immediate
thorough removal of every sort of house-refuse and
other filth which has accumulated in neglected