The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-06-27
SANITARY.
Circular from the American Public
Health Association.

mits the following memorandum respect.
ing the most available means for arrest
ing and preventing the fatal prevalence
of Asiatic or malignant cholera in this
country:
The prevalence of this disease at sew
eral places in the Mississippi valley is
undisputed. Its progress from New
Orleans to Memphis and Nashville has
been rapid, and is significant of its on
ward tendency. That it is being propa-
gated as in former visitations, by the
excremental discharges of persons af-
fected by the choleratic 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
this scourge of sanitary negligence, it
| is necessary that the inhabitants of
every city and town should promptly
resort to the most effectual purifcation,
and the best known means of disinfec-
tion, and that this sanitary cleansing
| and preparation should, as far as posi-
BILE, be undertaken before any cases of
! cholera occur and that, in the pres
ence of the disease, these sanitary du-
ties should be enforced in every house
hold, and throughout the entire district.
Experience has proved that the best
way to prevent both pestiIence and
panic is to know and prepare for the
danger. 1t is the only way to deal sue
cessfully with cholera.
SANITARY CLEANING.
The local conditions that chiefly pro-
mote the outbreaks and propagation of
cholera, are
1. Neglected privies.
2. Filth-soden grounds.
3. Foul cellars and filthy and badly
drained surroundings of dwellings
4. Foul and Obstructed house drains.
5. Decayed 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 thorough
Iy removed before a case of the disease
appears in the town or district; and if any
source of putrescence or of excessive
moisture remain, even these should be
controlled by the proper cleansing and
disinfection.
Thorough scavenging and surface
drainage, with the application at the
same time of quick-lime and coal-tar or
crude corbolic acid whitewashing with
fresh quick-lime the cleansing and
thorough drying and ventilation of Gel
lars, Easements, chambers and closets,
and daily care to cleanse, flush, ventil-
ate and purify the sources of deflement
about all inhabited premises, will afford
almost complete protection if suitable
care is taken of
PERSONAL HEALTH.
The security of personal health. re-
quires pure drinking water, fresh and.
substantial food, temperance, and the
needed rest and bathing of the body.
DIsTNFECTION AND DIsTNFBUEANTs.
The principles relating to disinfec-
tion as a means of destroying the prop
agating or infectious cause of cholera -
the cholera cOntagium are readily
understood, and may be SO explained
to any family that the household may
insure its immunity against the intro
duction and spread of the disease. For
popular use we append brief statement
of these principles at the end of this
circular; and we respectfully recon-
mend that the statement and the follow
ing schedule of rules and methods be
given to the press, and allFprincipals of
schools, superintendents of places of
public resort, railroad depots, ferries,
hotels and steamboats,, and the cOnduc-
tors of passenger trains throughout the
continent believing, as we do, that by
the timely application of these meas
urcs the prevalence of cholera may be
prevented.
RULES AND METHODS OF DIsINFECTION.
For privies, water. closets, drains and
phate of iron Ccopperas) dissolved in
five or six gallons of water, with half a
pint of crude carbolic acid added to the
solution and briskly stirred, makes the
cheapest and best disinfecting fluid for
common use. It can be procured in
every town and by any family, and if
the carbolic acid is not at hand, the so
luton of copperas may be used without
It.
To prevent privies and. water-closets
pour pint of this strong solution into
every water-closet or privy-seat once
or twice a daY.
To disinfect masses of filth, privy
waits, sewers and drains, gradually
pour in this solution until it reaches
and disinfects all the foul material.
For the chamber-vessels used by the
sick, and for the disinfection of ground
upon whicn any excremental matter has
been cast away, for disinfecting extern
sive masses or surfaces of putrescent
materials, and for drains, sewers and
bitches, the " dead oil " of coal-tar
or coal-tar itself is available coaI-tar
may be used as a disinfecting paint up
on the walls of cellars, stables and open
drains.
Quicklime is useful as an absorbent
and dryer upon such walls and in damp
places, and white-washing with 1t
should he practiced in common tene-
ments, factories, Easements, closets
and garrets.
To disinfect clothing defiled In any
manner by excremental matters from