Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-04-18
sickness ila Cities.

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the country is comparatively healthy and free from
disease, naturally lead the inquiring mind TO ask
the cause Of this difference-why are The inhabi
tants Of the city, generally so delicate, feeble and
sickly a comparison with the robust strong and
healthy country peoples Numerous reasons can
be given to prove the superior health of the coun-
try to the city. Contagious diseases are frequent
ly brought to our shores by emigrants from the
| old world who arrive in thousands at our Atlantic
seaports often in the most sickly and destitute
condition Cholera small pox. and other foul
diseases, are mostly imported in this way The
atmosphere of the crowded city is impure and be-
comes impregnated with the ozone ofdisease, while
the pure balmy air of the country-the odor OF the
! flowers fields and forests--promote and stimulate
health. The habits and modes of living OF many
persons in the city, when compared with the reg
uar and natural life of the husbandman. will also
show the bright side in favor of rural life. Anoth-
er and most fearful cause of sickness in cities,
| is found in the consumption of unwholesome food.
! The New York Herald publishes the following
horrible statement relating to the poisonous milk
furnished to the citizens of New York. The sub
iect demands the most severe interference Of the
authorities.
1--WE have from time to time exposed the
mockery, deusion, and snare, palmed upon
creduous community as pure Orange county milk.
We do not refer to the chalk mixture, or the CO.
pious additions from the hydrants, which are SO
notorious. Croion water will do no injury to
health, though after already paying tax for it,
it may be hard enough TO have to pay for 1t again
instead OF milk Cur alluson is not TO these d.
lutions and adulteradons, but to something much
more horrible. We have recently received vari-
Gus communications, giving descriptions of the
menagerles up town, where milk is manufactured,
that are sufficient to make each particular hair of
ones head stand end, like the quilts of the
trettul porcupIne. Orange county means that re-
giOn comprised in the Twelfth, Sixteenth and
Eighteenth wards and as for the purity of the
licor,' yclept milk that is distributed thence
over the lower wards of the city, we leave the
reader TO determine after peruSng the following
details The stables consist of long ranges
oflow shantees, where hundreds ofthe unfortunate
animals are cooped up for the term of their miser
able lives. Once they enter, they never return till
they are brought out dying or dead. They are
fed with intoxicating 'swill,' and grains from
the breweres and distilleries which so stimulate |
the flow of milk as to greatly increase the quantity,
while the quality is sadly deteriorated. This |
would not be So poisonous if the animals were al |
lowed 10 go into the open air. and had some ex-
ercise. But they rendered so sckly, bloated |
and dropsical by the confinement, the foul air, and
the distlery stuff together that the milk is not only
unfit for human beings, but positively deleterious
TO health. The stencil ofthese menageries cannot |
be described. 1t can only be judged by bring
ing the olactory nerves in contact with the ef
fuvia al some sixty or one hundred yards,
which would be about as near as most people
could venture 10 approach these denominations.
Let any man who is able 10 endure close prox-
e, i !,
find some Of The animals bIoa'ed 10 extraor
dinary degree, the prelude 10 more advanced
stage of disease, which is marked by extreme
emacaion, hollow eyes. the udders and Ieals
spoued with leprous sores some of them so
far used up, thai, if they lay down, they
could not rise, and they are therefore propped
by belly bars, while their eyes drip rheum, dis
colored puruent mater is pressed from their
ieats, and The animals operated upon seem as
nsensible as if under The Influence of chloro-
form The skins Of all Of them covered
with filth, presenting horrible picture of cru
city to ANIMALS. But the cruelty, alas ! does
not stop here-ii is cruelty of the worst kind
10 human beings destruction of the health, ay,
and TO he lives Of thousands Yet, the out
skirts of The lazar houses will be found well
washed, reminding one Of 'whlted sepulchers;'
and wagons may be seen handsomely painted,
amp bearing the following words in large let
ers-'Orange county milk, pure Then when
he animals die, or about 10 die, in these
lens, they are conveyed to Hoboken and 9th |
,r places in New Jersey; and having been |
'utchered there in due form. they come TO our |
markets as New Jersey meat And the calves c
aiken from them, dead, are also sold TO the !
'oor, as appeared from paragraph in The Her
i'd TWO or three days ago. BY these means It
nen have grown rich-passng rich and hold i
heir heads as high any Of The 'ishy' aris- c
ocracy; no doubt believing that dollars smell 5
s sweet coming from felid stables as from a
linking Goldfish. When these establishments b
re permitted by the authorities, The owners are
OF 10 blame make what money hey can of
nem. The people themselves are in fault, and
hey pay fearful penalty. Can il be wondered v
lal the blood of the children Of this cy is i,
linted with scrofua aud other frightful dis d
ases that so many Of our population are pre- Y
ia,urely cut off in childhood and youth, and Ii
lat SO many OF those who attain 10 ripper years O
re afflicted with maladles which render their ii
yes burlhen TO them! Blu, we have May a
r, and Common Council, Board of tealth p
nd sanitary laws! Thrice happy people h
ndIan Starvation and Cannibalisn. II