The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-03

the Cholera visit Wheeling the coming
summer, The action of the people in
regard to sanitary measures can alone
answer this question, for experience has
clearly shown that the cholera rarely
visits those places which are kept free
from filth. Our city, appears outwardly
clean, but there are yet many deposits
of filth in alleys and yards that ought
to be removed. We would call the at
tention of our citizens to the sanitary
condition of the city, because there is
depending upon it not only human life,
but in great measure business prosper
ity: for the presence Of an epidemic
like the cholera virtually puts an end
to trade from abroad and depresses that
at home. d % . f.'s
There is but little that man or mu-
inequalities can do to avert the cholera,
save to cleanse the foul places Of the
city and remove those existing causes
in the shape Of filth which are permit
ted to accumulate in sewers. cess-pools,
cellars, areas and bye-places on private
premises in different parts of the city.
This is all that can be done by law to
promote health. Bodily cleanliness,
rest, temperance, and other measures of
comfort which tend to the protection Of
the individual from attack by disease
cannot be enforced by law, and must
come only by the voluntary action Of
men. The public measures will do
much-perhaps all that is requisite-to
avert cholera. There is no time to be
lost. The work must be COM
pleted the ensuing month or it
will be of little or no avail. The Board
of Health has the power, and it must
use it with rigor and without favor. 1t
will be sustained in anything it may
do looking to the abatement of huis-
ance. No Board Of Health ever became
unpopular in consequence of its sever
ity. The inspectors should give but
one notice to q party tolerating mis-
anee on his premises. If he don't pro,
coed to abate it, let the law be applied,
and let there be no remission of the
penalty. If the author of nuisance
could alone be made to bear the incOn-
venience and sustain the consequences,
then We would say let him revel in his
filth and die as the fool dieth. But it
is often the case, indeed 1t IL usually the
fact, that the author of nuisance re-
sides at distance, and is not immcdi.
ately damaged or affected thereby.
The authorities of New York are adj
vised that cholera prevails in some of
the larger inland cities already. Ifsuch
is the fact then we reasonably conclude
that it will prevail the coming summer
wherever it is invited by the neglect
of the people of cities. We think there
is more danger now than was apparent
one year ago, hence all the more need
Of action. The weather hereabouts
has been cold and vet and the season
opens late. We may reasonably ex-
pect hot summer and great change
1t ia this that will do the mischief. We
must prepare for cholera in Wheeling
and do all tLat can be done to avert its
presence. We may be able to prevent
its appearance, or to make its presence
less horrible if it comes. We may say
what we will of Providence; that Al
mighty power rules, only under laws
and does not sustain man in violating
them. Ifman does his.dnty Providence
win do the rest. Il