New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-18

children. Have made that plain Don't
you see that whenever you have black
mans party IN this country against white
mans party you will have troubles 1t is
natural, and it will come. A voice-"How
do you mean; black mans party and
white mans party ~ [ mean when the
black men all vote on one side and the
white men on the other.
Cleaning the Cutters versus NIalariaI
Diseases
For some weeks the stagnant condition
of the cutters bordering the neutral ground
on Delord street, from Tivoli circle to the
Basin, has been noticeable. The matter in
the cutters was, in many places, nearly
foot thick, and was of course offensive to
sight and smell. Yesterday gang of la
borers was at work shoveling this stuff out
of the cutters and scattering it along the
middle of the street. This operation is pro
nounced by medical men a great deal more
injurious than letting the cutters alone en-
tireiy. Stirring up of this decaying organic
matter in the cutters, under a sun beating
down upon it at 90o Fahrenheit, simply gene
rates poisonous gases, and inevitably pro-
notes disease. tits best to keep the cutters
entirely clear and free from such accumula-
tions, but if this can not be done, and the
matter removed, it is better, in this mala-
rious season, to let it entirely alone rather
than spread it out upon the heated street to
boil and steam and simmer in the summer
sun.
DR.. A. w. Perry, Of the Board of Health,
hoe Il at MI
appeared in the last published proceedings
of the board. We make the accompanying
extract for the benefit of our readers,
which we commend to their due attention,
as this is a matter of vital Importance at
this season of the year:
At this season of the year, when the dry,
hot season succeeds the rainy season, the
luxuria and low organized vegetable life
which has been stimulated to growth by
the moisture and heat, loses its vitality,
and together with the dead vegetable mat
ter which has been kept from deeomposi-
ton by the excess of rain, enter into that
kind of decomposition which, though not
particularly offensive to smell, is most
fatally felt in causing, by its emanations,
all the malarial diseases-COngesti re-
mittent, intermittent and bilious fevers,
and host of other diseases which are in
directly caused or aggravated byit.
When vegetable matter is covered by or
completely soaked in water, malariOus
emanations are not readily given off, be-
cause the excess of water retains them by
physical attraction, and for this reason in
all hot countries the rainy season is not the
sickIy season. It is when the rainy season
ceases that the vegetable matter dries up,
and it is in passing into this dry condition
that malaria is given off, with all its evil
effects.
One of the conclusions arrived at, after
long and laboTious investigation by the.
sanitary commission appointed by the City
Council of 1854, to investigate the causes
and means of prevention of yellow fever,
was that any uptuFning or exposure of the
soil here, under conditions of great heat
and moisture of the atmosphere as shown
by high dew point would certainly cause
or propagate yellow fever, and all excava-
tion5 or digging bitches, canals, etc, should
be positively prohibited during the summer
and fall.
This exposure and turning up of soil
highly charged with organic, vegetable and
animal matter to the sun, is found in nine
out of ten streets in this city. The house
waters and slops are thrown, or allowed to
run in the cutters of the streets which are IN
paved, where they remain until by the evap-
OratiOn and admiXtur6 with dirt and solid
garbage, they are converted into Shiny
mass, green, and offensive to both sight and
smell.
Reflection will convince anyone that this
putrefyIng material ought to be removed
entirely; but no. it is once or twice week
scraped out of the cutters and thrown on
the surface of the street, to dry and give
off poisonous malaria at our very doors.
This is repeated over and over again. until
the soil Of our unpaved streets is saturated
with organic matter, which commences to
decompOse every time it is wetted, as by
occasional showers, and in deCaylng gives
off the most injurious ett1uvia
All the labor expended in this exposure
of slime to dry upon the streets Is abso-
lutely wasted, and positive harm is done.
To be sure, it pleases the public eye to
transfer the filth from the gutter to the
street, but it ruins the public health.
The soil of our unpaved streets, when
dry seems to be an innocent mixture OF
sand and clay, but it is only so in appear
ance. / have examined lately number OF
samples of dry soil from our different
streets, and found them to contain not less
than fifteen per cent of organic matter,
liable at any time to decompOse. What
more favorable natural conditions could be
imagined than these, which are thus pro-
duced artificlally Though not knowingly,
for the production of malariaL diseases
This is the chief cause of the unhealthiness
Of this city.
For the last three years in this city ma
larial diseases yellow fever excluded have
caused amortality respectively, us. y and
"a deaths in every 10000 Of population;
while in Chicago the mortality from these
same diseases, during the last ten years,
has been less than 1.5 deaths to every 10000
of population; while ia period of ten years
before a proper sy stem of drainage and re-
moval of offal was introduced, the mortality
in that city from malarial diseases was more
than four times as great as since that time.
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