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paid $1 a day, saw to it that no one entered or left. Then, 11 property owners
were "ordered at once to clean and disinfect all privies, hog pens and premises
generally."

Cholera, influenza and typhoid fever also prompted quarantines. Typhoid, caused
by contaminated drinking water, was rampant during those years, and Round Hill
relied on a strong spring with pure water. Its stone base still can be seen, a few
hundred yards west of the town limits, by the old railway right of way.

But with a population that grew from 318 in 1900 to 379 in 1910, a stronger
water source was needed, and by the summer of 1913, potable water was
supplied by iron pipes from a spring-fed reservoir on Scotland Hill.

Other health ordinances prohibited horses, hogs and female dogs "while in heat"

from running loose. Cows could stray about between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m. but were
to be penned at night.

Mayor Ford was responsible for carrying out the town ordinances. He came to
Round Hill from Page County in 1877 when he was 24, and the store he opened is
now the town office. In 1901, he ran for the state Senate and served two terms
representing Loudoun and Fauquier.

"Honest George Ford," was his sobriquet, as illustrated by the time young Albert
Purcell brought some aged chickens into Ford's store for resale. The clerk gave
him the correct price for older chickens, not the price for young fryers. But when
Ford sold them in Washington, he got the fryer price and handed Albert the extra
change.

Reference: http://www.loudounhistory.org/history/round-hill.htm

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