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Photographer: Public Health Service, Lunden
Taken: 1914
Caption: Illustration of Pumping Station at Rockville, MD and Its Surroundings
(Lumsden, 1914)
Additional Description: This illustration from the Public Health Service booklet shows the Pump House and the private home that contaminated the well. Once the well was contaminated, typhoid was pumped to other homes through the city's water system.
Submitted: September 13, 2017, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p398505
File Size: 0.699 Megabytes

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