Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-05-21
NEW SERIES--V0L. IA, NO. 81

era in London 10 1854, the water sup
piled TO the city was examined micro
scopically !; and the report was, "that
there is no wator supplied to The me
tropoIis that does not contain dead
and living organic matter, both ami
NAL and vegetable" II was found
that some of the water furnished 10
tho city was moro free from such sub
stances than others, and that those
districts furnished with the puror wa
ter had but comparatively few deaths.
DR.. AckIand, OF London, says that in
1882, the parish of 81. Clements suf-
fered greatly from cholera, that the
water supply was derived from
stream into which sewers cmpticd,
and that as soon as water had boon
pbtaiuvd, frona . Puivi 4susam, thv
mortality greatly diminished. He
mentions another instance in which
the city and the county Jail Of Oxford
stand close TO each er,--the former
never having had case Of cholera,
while tho latter was visited by the
disease every time it appeared in the
country. The city Jail had good wa
ter supplied, while the water of the
county Jail was pumped from filthy
pond within ten feet from one of the
drains. Upon obtaining water from
another source the cholera disappear
ed. 1t is now an established opinion
among those best acquainted with the
diseas. that every outburst Of cholera
beyond the confines Of British India,
may be traced back to Hindostan
through continuous chain of human
beings effected with the disease, or
through water contaminated, or arti-
oles soied with their dcjecta. The
native villages and towns of British
India abound in green, slimy, stagnant
ponds, full of putrid vegetable and an
nimal matters in state Of decomposi-
ton, whose bubbling surfaces cxhalc
noxious gases, poisoning the air and
spreading around disease and death.
From time 10 time frequent heavy
downpours of rain flood the towns,
washing fresh cholera dejecta, with
all manner of impurities from the sur
rounding filthy soil into these ponds,
which supply the drinking water
But the great birth place of cholera
appears TO be the city, and the seat OF
the Supreme Government OF British
Calcutta, with native popula.
ton Of 100000 souls, placed in the
burning plain of Bengal. on the largest
delta in the world, surrounded by
marshes and jungles, and ore hundred
miles from the salt breezes of the sea
The Hooghly river, an arm of the
Ganges, supplies the city with water
into which the great sewers open
directly upon its soft, muddy banks
and night soil at the rate of one
hundred aud eigty tons a day is de
posted, converting harbor of refuge
ito nss, oi aisLness and The The, river rive. q .
death. From this great centre fol
the origin and distribution Of cholera
situated upou the eastern coast o
Hindostan, Bayard Taylor found the
roads swarming with pilgrims, apc
one afternoon he passcd thousands
each and every one carrying his two
jars Of Ganges water 10 his far dis
tant home. Those who are attacked
with cholera on the road general,
slaoqer on until they get near som,
weIl or tank. from which TO ouenct
their thirst and as thew recover. wad,
;nto the tank up 10 the middle, tax,
og and wash tbeir garments soileo
Nth cholera driec,a. then mass on
and ;mmediatelv some man or woma,
nav he seen not Ear off filling Al
aar,ben lar or skin full of the con
,am;nataa waters for domestic nur
nnan. Thrs ,ha disease soon reache
S Pon,hov mon ,be western coast o
iT;ni"s,an f,hen nm ,he pers;an Gul,
naIi a"nb;na ,hs Casn;an Blaok and Med
.aasn oas soos and SOON afferward
: ~ .S,saH .a;shh hor;na conn,r;es NJ Epron,
Tno ~. 'o,sis obsSiara - Isai was carr;ed h,
: '"o s" snnS ,Sa puss;on cara~an rad
, p"s,'o "" w. .nano',o p,ss;a iror
~ os"''" =. ~ aehaS parl;n ID =,
huss'a ~ 'J"p ,arr;a'
ourg anu o".o r.,asa " ad - ~
0 from Lonuom " i'''""u' "aI :" y"
/ spring o. io'I ,a ~ "a' ~ So ,-anad % nm
grants RON i'e.a"u ~ ~ ,.;,'on,n 1 OBJ %
down 'ne OF, Law,eloo ., i'N'. ~ T.-:.s nas
' Erie ana Uh'ar,o' 'ne"oc " ."e NY. ~,