The Daily Gazette

Important to Water Drinkers.

It is said that in New Haven about five hundred wells have been abandoned because of their nearness to sinks and cesspools. As New Haven people know as much as any one else about the size of a dollar, and have also some unusual sources of information about the quality of their well water, it is not likely that the wells were abandoned without cause. As, however, houses, wells and sinks are no nearer one another in New Haven than in the majority of country villages, the action of the people should have some effect upon other communities that get their drinking water from wells. The quality of well water that does not smell bad is something that country people, even country physicians resolutely refuse to think worthy of attention. So thousands of families are having their health slowly and surely undermined, although to build and supply a large cistern is not a matter of serious expense to any man. The cholera once was spread over London by a popular well that had been infected by a patient or two who came from shipboard.—Herald