Little Falls Transcript

Duluth Herald: It is a matter of congratulation that the general health of Duluth is so much improved this season over the past three or four summers. The death rate, which last year was unusually high for Duluth, though even then averaging less than ten to the 1000 of population has steadily lessened, until now the city has by far the lowest death rate of any organized town in America. There is almost none of the typhoid and typhoidal fevers that in 1887 and 1888 raged with such intensity in the Northwest and at Duluth, as elsewhere, while other malarial contagious and germ diseases are almost unheard of. Much of the change for the better is due to the rapidly extended sewerage systems, more to the fact that old streets are not being torn over, and the earth, reeking with putridity, uncovered, and still more to the dry season which has prevented the leakings from surface vaults and drains from washing into wells and other sources of water supply. Another leading cause of the improved health of the city is the activity of the board of health, which has worked as it never worked before and has done yeoman service. In a year or two, when the sewers are further extended, the swamps filled more thoroughly and the board in still better condition, Duluth can do as she did in the early days and close up her cemetery altogether as an unnecessary luxury.