Report of the State Board of Health Upon the Sanitary Con...
Health, Massachusetts State Board of![Report of the State Board of Health Upon the Sanitary Conditions of the Neponset Meadows in the Towns of Canton, Sharon, Norwood, Dedham, Milton and Hyde Park, 1897 (Classic Reprint)](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/187/18736558/CHSBZCOP0318736558.jpg)
Excerpt from Report of the State Board of Health Upon the Sanitary Conditions of the Neponset Meadows in the Towns of Canton, Sharon, Norwood, Dedham, Milton and Hyde Park, 1897The earliest notices of these meadows give evidence that even then there were prolonged periods of ¿ooding, and that it was found necessary to clear the bed of the stream from time to time of its obstructions, consisting of fallen trees and shrubs with the entangled rub...