ID#: 26844
Caption:
This historic diagram, digitally enhanced, depicts a properly constructed cistern outside a farmhouse. Published in 1915, it is one of a series of instructional drawings used by the Minnesota Board of Health to train state public health workers. Note that the home is situated at a distance from the cistern and that wastewater draining from a porch-mounted water pump flows into a pipe that terminates outside the confines of the cistern, thereby avoiding contamination.

The purpose of this and similar images, along with the associated training, was to protect water supplies from bacterial contamination. The descriptive information accompanying this drawing referenced a governmental publication outlining the correct placement and construction of such a system. The specific citation was “Minnesota State Board of Health, Division of Sanitation, Farm Water Supplies, June 1915, p. 27.”
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Minnesota Department of Health, R.N. Barr Library; Librarians Melissa Rethlefsen and Marie Jones
Creation Date: 1915
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Links: Minnesota Health Department
Minnesota Health Department; R.N. Barr Library
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