The double lines 1 and 2 represent the angle which the well drains. The slightly curved lines 3 and 4 represent the water line in the ground, the constant use of the well depressing this line below a level in the immediate vicinity of the well. The lines radiating from the cess-pool and vault illustrate the cause of said pollution, and consequently contamination of the water in the well. This sketch is in no way overdrawn: I have seen many wells apparently situated in precisely the same way. If somewhere in a near and convenient location to this well, as shown above, were placed a barn-yard and a pig-sty in addition to what we now see, it would represent the exact condition of many of our farmers’ wells. Yet the proprietor of this “best well in town” wonders why his doctor’s bills are so large! He bows “to the will of God” when cholera infantum takes the life of his little child, when his own ignorance or cupidity is the destroyer. How long shall the Almighty be charged with crimes that come alone from the ignorance, carelessness, neglect, and conceit of men? I propose to give a few illustrations of water pollution that are of a very marked character. The following diagram is that of a hotel in one of the thriving towns in this state, and the facts connected therewith I obtained from a reliable physician under the promise of not giving to the public the locality or his name. I have seen the hotel myself, and assure you that the location was as represented. A case of typhoid fever occurred the past season (1882) in the bed-room near the privy (see diagram No. 1). All the discharges from this patient were thrown into the vault without being disinfected. This vault was located about _fifteen feet from the well_ which supplied this house. Result: _Fourteen cases of typhoid fever, with one death, from the use of this water for drinking purposes_. [Illustration: DIAGRAM NO. 1.] The following description and history of a well in Newport (although I published the same in the last report of the State Board of Health) is of such a remarkable character that it will bear republication. The attention of Dr. D. M. Currier was directed to this well in the investigation of the cause of sickness in the family that used this water, and the analysis which is given of the water was made by Prof. Edmund R. Angell of Derry. ANALYSIS OF THE NEWPORT WELL.