Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-06-27
THE CHOLERA.
Causes OF the Disease aud Prevcntlves
Circular from the American Health
Association.


! Memphis and Nashville has been rapid,
| and is significant Of it's onward tendency
I That il is propagated, as in former vista.
tion, by tho excremental discharges Of per.
sons affected by the cholerated poison
aided by local causes, is as true now as in
the former visitations.
To combat and arrest the progress, and
prevent the epidemic prevalence of thii
scourge of sanitary negligence, it is neces
ssry that the inhabitants of every city and
town should promptly resort to the most
effectusl publication and the best known
means of disinfection, and that this sani
tary cleansing & preparation should, as fai
as possible be undertaken before any OassI
of cholera occur, and that in the disease
these sanitary duties should be enforced in
! every household, and throughout the en-
/ tire district. Experience has proved that
the best way to prevent both pestilence and
panic is to know and prepare for the dan
ger. 1t is the only way to deal successful
ly with cholera.
SANITARY CLEANINGs.
The local conditions that chiefly pro.
mote the outbreaks and propagation ol
cholera are
l. Neglected privies.
p Filth-sodden grounds.
8. Foul cellars and Filthy or badly drain
ed surroundings of dwellings.
| 4, Foul and obstructed house-drains.
5. Decaying and putrescent materials,
whether animal or vegetable.
6. Unventilated, damp and uncleansed
dwellings and apartments.
These localizing causes of cholera should
be promptly and very thoroughly removed
| before a case of the disease appears in the
town or district; and if any sources of pu-
trescence or of extensive moisture remain,
even these should be controlled by the
proper cleansing and disnfection.
Thorough scavenging and surface drain
age, with the application at the same time
OF quick-lime and coal tar or crude carbol-
ic acid whitewasning with fresh quick
lime; the cleansing and thorough drying
and ventilation OF cellars, easements, cham
bers and closets and daily care to cleanse,
flush, ventilate and purify the sources OF
defilement about all inhabited premises,
will afford almost complete protection If
suitable care is taken of personal health.
The security OF personal health require
pure drinking water, fresh and substantial
food, Temperance, and the needful rest and
bathing.
DIsINFECTIoN AND DIsIEFECTANTs.
The principles relating to disinfection as
a means of destroying the propagating or
infectious cause of cholera---the "cholera
comtagium"--- readily understood, and
may be so explained to any family that the
household may insure its own immunity
against the introduction and spread of the
disease. For popular use We append a
brief statement of these principles at the
end of this circular and we respectfully
recommend that the statement and the fol-
lowing schedule of rules and methods be
given to the press and to all principals of
schools superintendents of places of public
resort, Railroad dcp)ts, ferris, hotels and
public Institutions and TO the masters Of
ships and steamboats,, and the conductors
OF passenger trains throughout this conti-
nent, belcvsing, rs we do, that by the time
" application OF these measures the prevail
ence OF cholera may be prevented.
RULES Az D METHODS OF DESTRUCTION.
For privies, water-closts, drains and sew
ers-- Eight or ten pounds Of sulphate of iron
(copperas) dissolved in five or six gallons
Of water, with hall II pint OF crude carbolic
acid added to the solution, and briskly stir
red, makes the cheapes; and best disinfect
ing fluid for common use. 1t can be pro-
and if the carbolic acid is not at hand, the
solution of copperas may be used withoutit.
To prevent privies and water-closets
from becoming infected or Offensive--POur
a pint of this strong solution into every
watcr-closet-pan or privy-seat once or
twice day.
To disinfect masses of filth, privy-vaults,
sewers and drains--gradually pour in this
solution until it reaches and disinfects all
the foul material.
For the chamber-vcssels used by the sick,
and for the disinfecton Of ground upon
which any excremental matter has been
cast away, for disinfecting extensive masses
or surfaces of putrcscent materials, and Tor
drains, sewers and bitches, the "dsad oil"
of coal tar, or cOal-tar itself, is available
coal-tar may be used as a disinfecting paint
upon the walls OF cellars, stables and open
drains.
Quicklime is useful as an absorbent and
dryer upon such walls and in damp places,
and whitcwashing with it should be prac-
tised in common tenements, factories, base
ments, closets, and garrets.
To disinfect the clothing defiled in any
manner by excremental matters from the
sick, throw all such articles Immediately
into boiling water and continue the boiling
for half an hour; or place them in solu
ton, covered, made as follows: One pound
of sulphate OF zinc, six or eight gallons of
water, to which add two or three ounces OF
pure strong carbolic acid.
Keep the soiled articles saturated until
they can be boiled If the acid is not at
hand use the zinc water alone.
Apartments, bedding and upholstery that
have been used by the sick with cholera
and diarrhea, should be fumigated by the
burning of several pounds OF birthstone
(sulphur) upon 4 defended iron pan, with
the place tightly closed for several hours,
under physicians directions.
PRINCIPLES AND DUTIES TO BE TAUGHT.
l. That thorough cleanliness, domestic and
civic, and an abundant supply Of pure and
clean water are esselial means Of preventing
cholera in any household where the disease is
near.
2. That general cleansing, scavengng aud
disinfrction should be attended to in every city
and town before cholera makes its appearance;
and that wherever it does appear, that house
and the exposed premises should be constantly
disiuiected. .
3. That in the words OF the Chief Medical
officer of Great Britain, 1T appears to DO char
actrriStic Of cholera, not Onl Ot the disease in
its developed and alarming form, but equally
Of the slightest diarrhga which the epidemic
can produce, that all matter which the patient
discharges from is stomach and bowels are
infective that the patients power uf Injecting
from nther persons is represented almost or
quite exclusively by those discharges that
they are comparatively non infectivs at the mo-
inert they are discharged, but afterward, when
under ding accommodation, acquire their maxi