Statement of the Cambridge Water Board.

Owing to the exaggerated reports which have appeared, the Water Board of the City of Cambridge has deemed it wise to make an official statement regarding the sanitary condition of the water.

Dr. Spencer, Chairman of the Cambridge Board of Health, Dr. J. L. Hill dreth of Cambridge, Dr. Greenwood, physician of the Waltham Board of Health, and Professor W. T. Sedgwick of Boston, have been added to the previous able medical staff, and have pronounced the sanitary condition of the water excellent and that there is, and has been thus far, no reason to attribute any cases of typhoid fever to the public water supply.