Subjects Public Health

Includes activities to maintain the healthfulness of the city, and the animals (such as pigs) and diseases (such as cholera, yellow fever, and typhoid fever) that were the objects of public health efforts.

Finished Upper Roxborough filters, 1903

Finished Upper Roxborough filters, 1903

McDonnell filter advertisement

McConnell Germ-Proof Filters ad

Spring Garden water testing lab, 1901

Bureau of Water Spring Garden Testing Station, 1901

Black and white image of Philadelphia civic and business leaders watching the start of operations at the new Northeast Sewage Treatment Plant, April 6, 1951

Northeast Sewage Plant opening, 1951

Spring Garden Sewage Experiment Station, used to test water filtration methods

Outside Sprinkling Filters, Spring Garden Sewage Experiment Station, 1911

Two bottles of water from a river, one dark with pollution and one clear after filtration

Water Before and After Roxborough

Black-and-white photograph showing the completed Upper Roxborough Filter system. Vaulted concrete ceiling with beds of filter sand.

Upper Roxborough Filter Beds Complete, 1903