NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

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The order that closed the nation’s founding river was bureaucratically frank. The Virginia State Board of Health had become aware of conditions in the James River, from the fall line at Richmond to ...