Investigations of Stream Pollution: A Review of the Work of the United States Public Health Service in Investigations of Stream Pollution

In March, 1901, Congress provided for the erection of a laboratory by the United States Public Health Service, “for the investigation of infectious and contagious disea ses and matters pertaining to the public health,” and in the same year a Division of Scientific Research was organized in the Bureau of the Public Health Service. Therefore, the year 1901 may be said to mark the establishment of systematic and continued scientific investigation as a recognized function of the Public Health Service. Considering the role which sewage-polluted drinking water was playing at that time in the spread of typhoid fever and other infectious diseases, and recalling that the membership of the Hygienic Laboratory Advisory Board included the great leader in sanitary science, Professor William T.