-----------------+-----------+--------------+------------------------- | | Deaths from | | | Typhoid | | | Fever. | City. |Population.+------+-------+ Water-supply. | | | Per | | |Total.|100,000| | | |living.| -----------------+-----------+------+-------+------------------------- Birmingham | 26,178 | 69 | 264 |Five Mile Creek 1. Denver | 106,713 | 232 | 217 |North Platte River and | | | | wells 2. Allegheny | 105,287 | 192 | 182 |Allegheny River 3. Camden | 58,313 | 77 | 132 |Delaware River 4. Pittsburg | 238,617 | 304 | 127 |Allegheny and Monongahela | | | | rivers Lawrence | 44,654 | 54 | 121 |Merrimac River 5. Newark | 181,830 | 181 | 100 |Passaic River 6. Charleston | 54,955 | 54 | 98 |Artesian wells yielding | | | | 1,600,000 gallons daily 7. Washington | 230,392 | 200 | 87 |Potomac River 8. Lowell | 77,696 | 64 | 82 |Merrimac River 9. Jersey City | 163,003 | 134 | 82 |Passaic River 10. Louisville | 161,129 | 122 | 76 |Ohio River 11. Philadelphia | 1,046,964 | 770 | 74 |Delaware and Schuylkill | | | | rivers 12. Chicago | 1,099,850 | 794 | 72 |Lake Michigan 13. Atlanta | 65,533 | 47 | 72 |South River 14. Albany | 94,923 | 67 | 71 |Hudson River 15. Wilmington | 61,431 | 43 | 70 |Brandywine Creek 16. St. Paul | 133,156 | 92 | 69 |Lakes 17. Troy | 60,956 | 42 | 69 |Hudson River and | | | | impounding reservoirs 18. Los Angeles | 50,395 | 34 | 67 |Los Angeles River and | | | | springs 19. Nashville | 76,168 | 49 | 64 |Cumberland River 20. Cleveland | 261,353 | 164 | 63 |Lake Erie 21. Richmond | 81,388 | 50 | 61 |James River 22. Hartford | 53,230 | 32 | 60 |Connecticut River and | | | | impounding reservoir 23. Fall River | 74,398 | 44 | 59 |Watupa Lake 24. Minneapolis | 164,738 | 94 | 57 |Mississippi River 25. San Francisco| 298,997 | 166 | 56 |Lobus Creek, Lake Merced, | | | | and mountain streams 26. Indianapolis | 105,436 | 57 | 54 |White River 27. Cincinnati | 296,908 | 151 | 51 |Ohio River 28. Memphis | 64,495 | 33 | 51 |Artesian Wells 29. Reading | 58,661 | 29 | 49 |Maiden Creek and Springs 30.