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
Sewers, Pollution, and Public Health in 19th Century Philadelphia
CITIZENS’ BUSINESS: 1939-1946
Petition of manufacturers along the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia for a new upstream water supply, 1868
From Creek To Sewer
The Water Supply Problem of Philadelphia, 1899
State of the Schuylkill River in 1876: Sewage pollution and possible remedies
Drainage and Sewerage Report, 1853
Dealing with the city’s wastes in the mid-19th century