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what for domestic purposes having become polluted by some cesspool.  No taste or smell can be detected in fact the water is sparkling & pleasant to the taste, for the bacteria is lacking in "it"!  Can the bulls at Camden have in any way become contaminated?  The subject has been frequently discussed in our home by men thoroughly acquainted with it - and I was amazed to find from this great a distance this bacteria may filter thro' the earth into a bull.  We have [indecipherable] a spring under the house which supplies us with water & altho we thought from the distance that no contamination could possibly take place, still by the advice of the sanitary office, we have had all our out house buildings closed up & purified.   Do not think me assiduous in mentioning this - I have heard the [indecipherable]

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