Excerpt from Papers and Transactions for 1917 and Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting at Hartford, February 19 and 20, 1918 Up to 1914 this plant furnished all the water for the city, and in 1913, gallons passed through this area of a little over one acre. With the new plant opened in 1914, and including nearly six acres in addition, this heavy load has been relieved. The sand is washed by hand in concrete troughs (seen at the left of Fig. The typhoid rate for the city of Yokohama for 1914 according to the figures given in the Summary of the Yokohama City Annual Statistics, No. VII, was 144 per which would indicate that the water supply is of excellent quality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.