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From its inception the Hygienic Laboratory played a major role in the study of water-borne diseases such as cholera and typhoid fever. The Laboratory's bacteriological experts conducted many studies of the biochemistry of sewage and industrial wastes to isolate and identify the causative organisms, and devised better physical methods for treating various kinds of waste. In 1913 the Public Health Service opened a laboratory in Cincinnati devoted exclusively to the study of water pollution.
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