Sanitation Surveys : Presented at the Sixth Conference on Sewage Treatment at Ames, Iowa, October 28-30, 1924, October 29, 1924

(1924) Sanitation Surveys : Presented at the Sixth Conference on Sewage Treatment at Ames, Iowa, October 28-30, 1924, October 29, 1924. Iowa State University

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Abstract

One of the greatest constant dangers to our health is the possibility that animal waste may gain admittance to the body through some tract, carrying with it disease germs which the body is unable to overcome. One of our objects in building and maintaining sewer systems and sewage-treatment plants is the destroying of the harmful organisms before they are released into any stream, dry run, or water-bearing stratum where they may endanger the health. It is the opinion of the writer that, since determining the general sanitation of the community or state starts with the water-supply, surface or underground, and ends in our streams as the effluent from sewage-treatment plants, the proper sequence of a sanitation survey would be to start with our streams and work up stream and inland.