A Generally Unknown Source of Enteric Fever

remind the inhabitants of this country that the water in which they enjoy so frequently the refreshing effects of a "plunge wash" is drawn from polluted sources; stores of water collected from surface drainage?water that has passed over soil laden with dead animal and vegetable products, and hence loaded with millions of enemies to human life. It is palpably more poisonous during, and after, the rainy season ; further, any collection of impure water is rendered more potent bjT the advent of a break in the rains; for then, a hot sun throws its genial influence upon the colonies of bacteria collected together in tanks, lakes, wells, etc. Thus they increase and multiply to their heart's content, and their aqueous habitation becomes a seething mass of iniquity. Into this we plunge with a vigour, begotten of its refreshing effects, and our natural repulsion to collected perspiration. As the head is ducked beneath the surface, or a sponge passes over the mouth and nose, the lips are separated, the nostrils dilated?what results ? Some of the