Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-05-28

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Importance of Ventilation, Cleanliness,
AND DRAINING, FOR TIE PRESERVATION
OF THE HEALTH OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS.
Brute animals, like the human race, are
subject to sickness, and this often to such
a fatal extent as to cause great loss to In
dividuals. This difference, however, ex.
ists-that human subjects generally recog-
nize their ailments on the slightest premo-
nitions, and are thus often led to timely
withdrawal from the sources of mischief,
or the adoption Of means for arresting its
further progress, whilst dumb animals,
when they once show their sickness, are
generally in very desperate conditions.
Hence the very large proportion of those
attacked with sickness that die, and the
great necessity of removing the causes and
preventing the occurrence of disease.
Districts of country which prove un-
healthy to man ARE equally so to the inferio r
animals, until these have become acclima-
ted. The symptoms will of course be
modified by the differences Of organization,
and they will therefore vary greatly from
those developed in the human family from
the action of similar agencies. Thus We
often hear of horses having the Blind
Staggers' or the "Yellow Water" or the
prevalence of the q Hollow-H Horn" among
neat cattle, the first named affection being
a brain fever or malignant typhus, whilst
the two last are forms of bilious fever.
Whenever We find epidemic diseases
prevailing amongst the human family, it
denotes condition of the atmosphere
which will exert a malign influence equal
ly upon animals, especially on that most
delicate and valuable one, the horse
Greater care than usual should at such
times be taken, to avoid the night air, and
all exposure to cold and wet, just as We
would act for the preservation Of health
with our noble selves But in housing
animals for protection against the inclem-
encies of the weather, they are often ex-
posed to great dangers from the arrange
ments of the stab les and other buildings
Dr. Z. Southwood Smith has devoted
great attention to the exploration of the
causes of sickness, and the means of de-
termining these, in England, from the
minute reports made through their COM
plete system of registration, which has en-
abled him to identify sickly and healthy
localities with great precision. Whenever,
says he, fever is frequent, there is uniform
ly bad drainage, bad sewerage, bad
supply of scavengers, and consequent
accumulation of filth" If map be drawn
or colored so as to designate the places
fcvers prevail or have prevailed to great
extent, and showing also the localities
where drainage has been effected by the
Health Commissioners, appointed to at.
tend to this public duty, it will be found
that where the Commissioners of Sewers
have not been, there fevers are still preva-
lent but wherever they have been, there
fevers are comparatively absent.
Filth and moisture, conjoined with heat,
are the greatest enemies of health. The
foul products resulting from the combina- |
ton of these elements and agents are de-
trimental to the health of all that breathe
the air with which they become blended.
The addition of lime and plaster to COM
post heaps, tends to arrest the too sudden
of vegetable and animal
matter, that would otherwise, by surchar-
ging the air, operate injuriously upon the
health of animals confined in stables or
cattle yards. Hog pens are perhaps the
most frequent generators of foul and pes
tilential air, since they are the common
receptacles of every kind Of animal refuse,
with abundance of moisture to cause their
rapid decomposition. We very often hear
of hogs dying suddenly, in apparently high /
health, and whilst rolling in fatness. Their
loss is generally aseribed to something
eaten, of a noxious quality. But the nox-
ious influence which operates in nine out
of ten such cases, is the foul air emanating
from the reeking collections Of filth which
are but too often found in and about pig |
styes. The losses from this source, If they
could be ascertained and estimated, would
make an aggregate that would much sur
prise many who have overlooked this mat
ter. And We may say the samG ia regard