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JAMA. 1966;196(12):1085.

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The maintenance of health depends largely on the provision of a healthy environment. Attention must be given to the earth's substrata and surface; its waters; its plants and animals; the foodstuffs produced, processed, and served; and the atmosphere around us. With the growing population, with an increasing degree of industrialization and urbanization, and with a greater tendency to use the great outdoors for recreational purposes, the health and sanitary aspects of the outdoors become more acute. Much has been written and said about fighting pollution of the large rivers as well as about disinfection and hygienic upkeep of artificial pools and lakes; however, some of the smaller creeks, streams, lakes, and ponds are widely used for wading, swimming, and fishing, and these areas can easily escape the eye of the public health officials whose duty it is to protect them from dangerous pollution and contamination. The tiniest creek or a . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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