The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-05-13

proa,.ced by deeompost',g a,;ia,ag AMI pegef-
obte substances. by damp and Jf.th, ana
close and ouerc,o,cded GWeilsngs, prevail
among the population in every part wi .,.e
* .nx,:om, whether dwelling III separate
houses, in rural villages, i'll small towns,
in the larger towns. AZ they have been
found to prevail in the lowest districts OF
the metz opolis. @
Of these pcetilential diseases, and that they
exist wherever these causes are found
even in the smallest towns and this was
the case precisely with the movements Of
the cholera In this country, although that
disease seemed to be less governed by
these causes than typhus and plague.
hut sqs s, IN 9ue
''That high prosperity, in respect to en-
ployment and wages, and various and
abundant food, have afforded to the labor
ing classes no exemption from attacks of
epidemic disease" 1t could not, unless
they changed their locality, their dwellings
and their habits; but 1t is we'll known
laboring men do not this merely from one
reason, prosperity, but only when they ac-
Quire competence.
A third proposition is: "That the forsa-
ton Of all habits Of cleanliness is obetruct-
ed for want Of proper supplies of water
We understand that this subject is now un-
der examination by the Board Of Public
Improvements and the City Council, and
nothing can be more important. It costs
done New York, no hesitation should be
felt in adopting q plan for the permanent
supply of pure HGter. The present Water
Works are only temporary, and perma-
nent plan should be fxed upon.
A fourth proposition will startle those
who have been talking about the losses Of
sCaT. THAT the annual loss OF life froln
filth and bad ventilation are greater than
the loss from death or grounds in any wars
IN Uhieh the country has been engaged Il,
| modern tiMes.''
This corresponds precisely with what We
have said repeatedly, in the course of the
war, that the losses Of men by war were
comparatively small. The nation will re.
cover them very quickly but the loss by
immense. 1ntemperance, the diseases OF
vice, the pestilences continually eDgender-
ed by filth, Incidence and exposure, the
weak aud neryeless constitutions of child
| rem coming into the world only to ole
young, or live diseased these are part OF
the great catalogue of woes of which war,
with all its horrors, is but single exam
pie. We cannot here quote other conclu-
sions which are equally startling and
equally important to the clergyman, the
physician and the legislator; for as we
have said, the public morals and the pub
lie health are bound up together. We now
cite two or three statistical results which
can be understood by all minds.
| The first fact we cite is that the NUes OF
those who inhabit large houses, open
grounds, get pure air, good water, and
have intelligence to take care Of Them
selves, "are on an average at least fifty PEI
cent. longer than those OF the poor and ~.
norant who are placed N opposite condi-
tions." We quote two examples:
| BOLTON UNION.
Average
No. Of age G
| deaths. Profession. death
ls3.... Gentlemen aud professions - 3
| SSH. Trades men.
2232 mechanics, servant ana laboreis IL
LIVERPOOL IN 1910.
49,. Gentry and profession .............3.
1S3.. Tradesmen
5,597.. =. Laborers, mechanics and servants Il
These are tremendous facts in the histo
ry Of our civilization. They show how
vastly short of its theory falls tho practice
Of our common Christianity for, If the
great principle of loving your fellow men
as you love yourself was practiced, &c
such state of things "a this would exist. Il
is in the light of facts like these that We
can understand Christ's address to the
4
bave We none in our country Look at the
statistics of New York city, and you vii
find on . large scale what most sOf oul
towns more or Less exhibit, We have to
ken the facts from the ''Report on the La
boring Classes'' Of England, to illustrate
the general causes and laws Of pestilence
We proceed now to some Illustrations IL
our own country.
4. We say that pestilence is not climatic
The yellow fever is supposed to be an in
hxbitant of the Gulf of Mexico. But the
yellow fever has visited the Northern cities
repeatedly. VIM. Penn was yet alive, IL
1899, when ga mortal disease, called thu
yellow fever, swept OF great numbers o
people, in Philadelphia. They said it hat
but was yellow fever known among thu
natives, before the whites built towns anC
INDUCED in civilized filth. In 1888, wheI
Philadelphia was yet small city, the vel
low fever killed some 3, 500 persons-oro one
tenth the people. In 1897, 1t visited Phila
delphta again, and killed about l,VO per.
sons. In the year l72S, Charleston, South
4 Carolina, was visited by very severe
drouth, burning everything up-it was fell
lowed by q terrible hurricane, which over
flowed the town, and was followed by thl
4 yellow fever with dreadful virulence. 81
y frequent were the funerals, and SO numar
GUS the sick, that white persons wer,
eC0C6lY 10 % OUUU 6umCloOS W VOIy VII
dead. In 1894, the yellow fever visites
New Haven, Connecticut. In 1888 the vel
low fever was epidemic in New York; AMI
in 1922 It again visited New York. In tn
last case IL was % limited to the low ant
filthy parts Of the city, that It never visitet
1.-The upper part of the city Ut al.
II Let d now turn to some very recent AM
very remarkable facts. Prior to 1851, tn
records Of New Orleans will show that tina
, city IVES never, In many years. entirel,
ire from the yellow fever. 1ts return Va
looked for % . matter Of course, and II
most years Il was . terrible plague. Blu
? Aimee 1851 ~ have heard Of 10 yeNoso Jsoe
} oe Neso Orleans. The first work Of Genera
) Butler, anticipating this .courge, vas
drain and cleanse the city from 1t: nth
He bed men enough 70 do It, and II ~
! done. New Orleans owes Butler debt
: gratitude which nothing can repay. -
, will live in history - benefactor. II
D governed New Orleans In the only way
J. f6ould be governed. Yet this ~ the ma
: the rebels called "beast" It 10 not YER
strange, however, that they hated the ma
!. who, u al others Ia the country, BEST On
4 (dersto0d the moral ~ we'll as physics
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