‘During the existence of the present outbreak of Typhoid Fever in the City the Inhabitants are particularly urged, as a matter of precaution, not to consume either WATER or MILK until the same has been THOROUGHLY BOILED.
By Order of the Health Committee,
W. T. PAGE. JR.,
Deputy Town Clerk and Clerk to the Urban
Lincoln, Jan. 27th , 1905. Sanitary Authority.’
By the time the first public warning about boiling drinking water came out it was already too late…