[KS] water purification, facilities, USAMGIK, 1945-1948

[John P Dimoia (jdimoia@Princeton.EDU)]

  Hi,

  I'm a grad student working on American models of biomedicine and the physical sciences as introduced to the ROK, especially after 1945.

  Does anyone know anything about what facilities were available for water purification circa 1945 (that is, Japanese-built facilities)?

  Alan Milett's recent book states that the only such facilities were based in the North--similar to the situation with electric power and much of the heavy industry--and I want to try to be able to verify this through whatever records are available.  I'm interested particularly in terms of the incidence of cholera / typhus at about the same time.

  Thanks, 

  John  DiMoia
  jdimoia at princeton.edu