1893-1894 - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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AI'PRXDIX. 20.3
Dr. ,Samuel Morril,
Fannrilli', Pitl covniij
"Your circular of April 20th received. In the s-ection of country I
travel over open wells are the rule. Driven wells are now being used to
some extent, with inii)roveuient of quality of water and general health.
I have been urging tfiis matter personally for some years.
B. M. Lewis,
P. O. Dongola, X. C, congratulated himself that the year after he bored
a well his doctor's bill was less than it had been in j-ears.
"John T. Barrett, Farmville, N. C, is, or was, enthusiastic on the subject
of driven w'ells, and undoubtedly there has been less malarial trouble
in his family.
"Suthcient time has not passed in other cases to prove anything—less
than a year only since commencing their use."
Di'. W. W. Lane, Wilmington, X. C:
"In regard to your remarks on the production of malarial diseases from
the use of surface water, which includes our shallow wells, as well as
branch or ditch water, you are certainly correct. I have made many
observations concerning this question during my past life, and have been
long thoroughly convinced that surface water drinking plays a far greater
part than climatic influence in causing malarial fever, as well as many of
our hepatic troubles, including obstruction, jaundice, colic, congestion of
the liver, etc."
Dr. J. F. Garrenton, Coinjock, Currituck county
" I agree with you as to surface water, etc. I believe that threefourths
of the diseases in this low, flat country are produced by malarial
poison, and most of it is taken into the system by drinking-water
(surface
water). I have a well or pump driven twenty-seven and one-half
feet deep, and there are no malarial diseases in my family. Cisterns
will
not do unless they are perfectly tight, and no water exposed to the
air in any open vessel or well in this country is tit to drink, for it will
absorb malarial poison."
Dr. A. B. Pierce,
Weldon, Halifax comity
" While I cannot call to mind any particular locality affected to any
considerable extent by surface water as the cause of malarial diseases,
yet I agree with you, and give it as my opinion, after an observation of
fifty
years, that surface water, as a drink, is the fruitful source of much
of the malarial trouble of malarial districts. As an instance: In the
region of country in thelower part of this county and the counties adjacent
the wells are very shallow, and the drinking water must more or
less partake of the surface water, as in a great many of the wells the
water is but a few feet from the surface. It is my observation that
regions of country thus situated are subject to a great extent to malarial
troubles.