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

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Most larger cities of Korea had water purification facilities already in 
Japanese times. Cf. Hermann Lautensach: Korea. A Geography Based on the 
Author's Travels and Literature. (1988) p. 457: "In the period prior to 
1910 only Seoul, P'yong-yang, Pusan and Mokp'o were supplied by 
waterworks. Otherwise the water needed by the cities was supplied by 
wells, whose water occasionally was not sufficient during periods of 
drought and often was not pure, so that epedemics were frequent. At the 
end of 1937 74 large settlements already had an untainted and adequate 
water supply."

Eckart Dege

John P Dimoia (jdimoia at Princeton.EDU) schrieb:

>  Hi,
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>  I'm a grad student working on American models of biomedicine and the physical sciences as introduced to the ROK, especially after 1945.
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>  Does anyone know anything about what facilities were available for water purification circa 1945 (that is, Japanese-built facilities)?
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>  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.
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>  Thanks, 
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>  John  DiMoia
>  jdimoia at princeton.edu
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