Excerpt from Nineteenth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Ohio for the Year Ending December 31, 1904

The Board has given careful consideration to all plans for water supplies or sewerage presented to it. In each case it has endeavored to insure the selection of a water originally pure and where this is im possible or impracticable, the introduction of purification works Of guaranteed efficiency.

When water works are once introduced their future is largely under local control. A supply of water originally pure may, with our rapidly changing conditions, become impure and unsafe within a few years. The act of the last Legislature giving municipalities the power to punish and prevent the pollution of their water supplies for a dis tance of twenty miles from corporation limits will be helpful, in pre serving their purity, but the remedy is inadequate. The evidence is abundant that polluted streams may extend their baneful in¿uence much farther than twenty miles. Furthermore, municipalities cannot be depended upon to enforce this act. It may be questionable how far the State is warranted or authorized to interfere in local affairs. But a public water supply permitted to become dangerously impure, ceases to be a local matter. It more or less threatens the entire State.

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