The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1864-09-28
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That most startling results accrue, among
the lowest classos especially. from due
attention 10 matters likely to affect health
ia aDnarcnt in the worry low mortality-rate
of the panpcr schools placed under prop.
or management In tho central London
district pauper school at Hadwel the la:o
Mr.. Aubin succeeded in reducing tho rate
60 less than two per cent, notwithstand'
ing that the scholars were taken from tho
very heart Of London, many of them be.
ing half starved, stunted sorofulous, aud
suiierirg from ringworm aud ,opthalmia.
II cannot be too widely spread abroad that
the secret of this clever and phianthropi-
cal superintendcnt's rulo consisted in the
practice aud maintenance OF extraordinary
cleanliness. Tho eight hundrei or nine
hundred children under his care were well
washed all over in warm water twice q
week, as we'll as down to their waists twice
day; and the younger children were
washed otter every meal. Directly gar.
fIient was soiled, il was changed, although
perhaps, it had only been worn few min.
utes; and in the regular way, every elder
boy was allowed three clean shirts week
ly. This prOfusion OF coan linen caused
as mauy as fifteen thousand pieces to be
washed weekly. But the system worked
wonders. Instead OF q hundred little
graves being made in the graveyard year
ly. the sexton was not called upon TO dig
many more than dozen. Far finer chill.
dren in country warehouses; furnish u
death.rate of twelve per cent, But this uu.
promising selection, with this management
yielded a smaller doath-ratc than the veal.
thiest communities in the and.
Thus it will be seen that the secret OF
the preservation Of health lies in one word
--cleanliness. This quality, long and wUr-
thily held next to godliness must be ap-
piled i'm it's widest sense, aud be under.
stood to mean cleanliness in our houses
our streets, aud our towns, MS well as in
our food, linen, and persons Air, earth
and water must be kept sweet and clean
and even our fires are not exempt from in
fluences upon health, for we may burn sub
stances that emit unwholesomo odors
Sanitary reform, therefore, resolves itsel
:nto an old, old story. The patriarch ia.
cob gave the pith of 1t when he command
ell lis household to "be clean, and change
your garments" !" and Moses only enlarged
the same command when he declared, that
il house should bo unclcan, tho priests
should look upon it, and cause il to bC
thoroughly screped aud cleansed and
should signs of unclcanliness again present
themselves, il should be taken down
stones, timber, and mortar, aud these ma
terials cast out of the city upon an uncle at
place; and in the minute directions he is
sued respecting repeated ablutons. II
will not be of much use to tell this story
even with its Syrian associations, to grown
up people--they know it already; but hab
it is second nature. and it is difficult fol
thom to change their ways. Those tC
whom sanitary reform must be preached
are school children. They should be
taught if we are dirty, we shall become
diseased If we sin, we shall suffer, as Ger
tainly as twice two are four, and twic,
four are eight 1t is in the minis of littl,
children that we should SOW this seed