Gastroenteritis Disorder Not Proved To Be Water-Borne

Water‐borne Outbreaks in the United States and Canada, and Their Significance

“…During 1935 and early 1936, there developed several hundred cases of diarrhea in the adjacent cities of West Point, Georgia, and Lanett, Alabama, which from epidemiological evidence (12) had the appearance of a water-borne epidemic, but still proof of pollution of the water supply to these communities was not conclusive.…”

“…The Fitchburg, Massachusetts, outbreak of 2,500 cases of diarrhea has already been discussed. In Hillsboro, Ohio, in January, 1921, the use of an auxiliary intake was the probable cause of over 2,000 cases of gastro-enteritis with 12 cases of typhoid fever. Other large outbreaks of diarrhea, but not involving typhoid fever cases, were at Ozark Beach, Missouri (1928), and at Charleston and Greenville, Illinois, in 1925.…”

“…It was found on analysis that nearly two-thirds of the persons affected by water-borne outbreaks in the United States had used water from supplies of the following six groups: (see table 12). These represented 42.4 per cent of the total of 399 outbreaks reported for the seventeen years.…”