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ALLEGANY COUNTY NEWS. WHITESVILLE. N. Y. VICTIMS OF A TYPHOID WELL PUBLIC HEALTH HINTS J^repared Each Week For the Readers of This Newspaper by the New York State Department of Health. Friendship Not to Be Patched. Friendship is a vase which, when It is flawed hy heat, or violence, or acci dent, may as well be broken at once. It can n4ver be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental It was, the, more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its for m er state. Coarse stones. If they bo fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never.—Landor. YN Waterloo, N. Y., is a well which caused THIRTY-FOTJH CASES 4 of TYPHOID fever during the past summer. The well in question is close to a public hitching shed, where t farmers who drive in from the surrounding country put up their horses, .so that a great many people drink from it. There is a small building near by, and in April last a toilet was installed in this building. The 'drain from the toilet ran within two feet of the well, and AN OPEN ING WAS ^LEPT INTO THE DRAIN to carry oif surplus water pumped from the well. This opening was in such a position that a large flow in the pipes might back up and FORCE SEWAGE THROUGH THE SOIL FROM DRAIN TO WELL. Early in May, a few weeks after this drain was laid, typhoid cases began to occur. There were thirty-three cases in all between May and the middle of July, all among users of the well water. Some were members of the family of the man who owned the welL Some were children who came to visit this family. Two were high school girls, one was a mail carrier, and several were passersby from out of town, who stopped at the well for a DRINK OF COOL WATER on their way. As soon as the outbreak was traced to its source the well was ordered closed, and the outbreak stopped. There was just (me man WHO KNEW MORE THAN THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. He said all this talk about the water was nonsense, and he drank from the well after it had been ordered closed. He promptly CAME DOWN WITH TYPHOID FEVE-R. The farmer must usually rely on a well for his drinking water, aad many wells give water of excellent quality. This Waterloo case, how ever, is a reminder that a well which is NOT PROPERLY PRO TECTED may be a serious source of danger. ^ Pollnting matter may get into a well in two different ways—^through “the soil, as in this Waterloo case, or from the surface of the ground by washing in at the top. In order to avoid the first danger the well should be placed AS FAR AS POSSIBLE from drains and priviesi It should never be between such sources of pollution and the nearest stream or pond because the underground water usually moves TOWARD streams and ponds. Pollution from the top is probably more common than pollution through the ground. If a well is loosely covered so that surface wash, from the barnyard gets into it, it is really not a. well at all, but a ' LITTLE BARNYARD POND. In order to avoid this danger the well should have a curb rising well above the surrace of the ground and a TIGHT wooden or concrete dOVER. ft is an excellent plan to have the sides of the well for two feet or so down made tight by brick and mortar or concrete, so that nothing can get into the well without being WELL FILTERED through the soil. Sandy sod is the safest soil for a well, because sand is an exceMent f i l t e r i n g AGENT for taking out bacteria. The farmer can protect his o.^vn well and make it safe, but it is al ways a risk to drink from a casual roadside well, which may he like th© one at Waterloo. A Dollar That Can’t Be Spent B y HERBERT KAUFMAN Author o f **Do Something! Be Something!’* VERY dollar spent in advertising is not only a seed dollar which produces a profit for the merchant, but is actually retained by him even after he has paid it to the publisher. A d v e r tising creates a good w ill equal to the cost of the publicity. Advertising really costs nothing. While it uses funds it does not use them up. It helps the founder of a business to grow rich and then keeps his business alive after his death. It eliminates the personal equation. It perpetuates confidence in the store and makes it possible for a merchant to withdraw from business without having the profits of the business withdrawn from him. It changes a name to an institution—an institution which will survive its builder. It is really an insurance policy which costs nothing—pays a •premium each year instead of calling for one and renders it possible to change the entire personnel of a business without disturbing its prosperiry. Advertising renders the business stronger than the man—inde pendent of his presence. It permanentizes systems of merchandis- ■ ing, the track of which is left for others to follow. A business which is not advertised must rely upon the personality of its proprietor, and personality in business is a decreasing factor The public does not want to know the man who owns the store—■ it isn’t interested in him but in his goods. When an unadvertised business is sold it is only worth as much as its stock of goods and its fixtures. There is no good will to be paid for—it does not exist— it has not been created. The name over the door means nothing except to the limited stream of people from the immediate neighbor hood, any of whom could tell you more about some store ten miles away which has regularly delivered its shop news to their homes. 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