Board of Health Newspaper Clipping Scrapbooks at City Archives of Philadelphia, 1891-1908
Typhoid Fever and sewage tainted drinking water: An 1889 report from the Philadelphia Board of Health
Kensington Water Supply in 1883
Relative to Philadelphia's water and sewer systems, this includes pipes, pumps, plants, water works, reservoirs and other water storage facilities, and other aboveground and underground structures related to the city’s water supply, sewerage system, and drainage. In a larger sense, infrastructure includes many other human-made structures, including roads, highways, bridges, tunnels, canals, and other things of that nature.