Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-08

relating 10 the epldemle,-7 The folioWlng is
| part of his report as published in the Knox
vile Chronicle:
''More than 2 quarter o q century ago
sn immense pit was dug in the very center
| Of lie own, and 3 closca erected over it
with capacity sufficient for the sccommoda-
jiou OF The eRtire community during al
these years. a very short time before the
erGpting ofthe disease by which the town
| has been depopulsled, an energetic citizen
Enormously emptied this pit, and has the
| cor,ents wsgoued through The town, and
spread upon the face of b Il on the
| northwest verge of the corporation, the con-
ents from thu tit spreading over a very
considerable surface Of wet ground, exposed
for several days to = fiery Gun. Then there
| occurred the heaviest rain that any citizen
of GreereVille lad ever witnessed. 1t was
| the eastern side or slope of the Ill on which
the deposit was made; ard Of coaIse he
wash Of the bill was into and through the
town. The heavy wash Of this rain carried
all the surface soil from the hill, and as the
water covered an area Cqua, to three-fourths
of the corporate extent of the town, the
debris from the pit whichh held, fairly
divided, if not di solved, was distributed to
just so much of the SUI face of the ground.
Blu this is not all; the pile is yet incom-
plete, The town of Greenev lie is a town
of gardens, each householder probably
having garden, to which he gives atten-
ton during all the tine not required by
his r, gular vocation; ard each garden OWL
er iuoulgiDg an emulation az to who would
have the bess grspes-alI the gsrt.eDs having
grape srbors of less or very large extent.
The discovery belongs TO a citizen Of Greene
vIlle. and the experience, fOIsOotb, OF one
man was adopted SIS beyond caVil, and in
every essential right, that applied bY every
garden owner in The town, that the debris
Of tie human economy, the focal deposit,
made BY men, women, and children, is of !
all things, the best 10 81 vigor TO the crane |
vine, fuliDess to the grape, and luscious deli !
catenes S to the flavor, aud mellOwuess 10 the |
Odo- Of the juice of the fruit. Every cloacs |
in the town surrendered its contents, |
and at the root CT each main stem, was
buried, in wet earth, a pile of human tx
crement, in process OF chemical action, re-
sulting in products and eCUctS, readily /
communicated to & e atmosphere snd In /
parted TO water and then, as vehicles or
carriers, presented to the absorbing SUIT
faces Of the living mantle skin and the
mucous lining of The mouth, lungs, som
ach aud bowels. The consequences are
seen and read of ali men, in the hearts
that have been rent, in the closed dwellings
snd business houses, in The fcrsaken streets,
in the absolute desolateness of the town
Of Greeueville. In the overflow several
wells were contaminated, the waters Of
which, of course, are poisonous Cow, bu:
outside of the overflow, there Is no
reason to bel eve the water of the
town to be otherwise than pure. The clio
sce of the town are without pits and are
all Quilt upon a natural or ar ifcial drain
or sewer, communicating with creek that
passes from q northwest point, running
east and then south through and on the
edge OF the town, and soon entering and
passing through farms more or less CONT
guous to the town. The stock on these
farms drink the water of this stream from
GreeneVille and SIS far distaUt rs FIVE miles
from town and on this stream cases Of the
disease have occurred. 10 no instance of
occurrence of the disease in Greene county .
as it been difficult 10 demonstrate a direct
Jr indirect contact with GTeeQeyille at
nOsphere, Greenevilie water, contaminated
~ human focal matter"
The above facts confirm all that We have
ecently said against communicating The
river with facal mst;er in this
iSy, Even muEntsin stream viii not kill
seds Of any kind floating in is waters
Running water is one of natures ways fer
distributing plsnts of all kiuds-it rarely
destroys them. DR.. Ramsey's statement
bout the use Of raw cxcre mcuts IS garden
manure coincide with our plan Of sHhjecting I
Ich fertilizers to a thorough chemical f
lsnge in a nigat-soil factory before usirg
lem.
Let us now turn our attention to cholera :
acts in Gallatin. In the month Of June
lst past, according to the Gsl.;in E1an,-
~, one person in fifteen of its entire pop
la'ioy died, ard nearly all of cholera. This !
a greater iOas in ore month than has &C. G
ured in the most siekly year in Calcutta, a
twelve months. One in Is is g per y
IN. Of the population killed in a SINCE
Ou,h. The higLes. death rste in Calcut-
has been less than four per cent. in /.
Velye months. The de-th rate in one L
.Onth in Gallstin is greater by over so Y
II cent. than any on the Ganges. TIE
rGnliner says: a
oIf an inhsbtant If Gallstin could have P
reseen on the 1st day of June last
at ono person in every fifteen would he
ing in a grave, he would have been ap- ;
lied at the fearful picture. And we are E
al that our absent lends were lot here "a
with ess ibe terrible scenes of the past E
onth, the deserted streets and closed Il
fuses; tie general gloom that Swallowed /,
at brO0ded over all, and broken only by IS
c rumble Of htaIses over tie stony pave Is
ents, or the lamentations Of The stricken s,
ryigors." e
A place which IS generally heal-by, suff IS
.ost from the advent Of any uauausl DO = In
r. 1t IS like one takin. a large dram of 81
randy, who before had never received a zI
op into his system. By some mistake, u
lllstin has produced, and neg =
ted many germs of cholera. :
Re lesson should not be los on the Lublic sn
large, for it teaches one and all what ms
lease may do in ons short month, in a IN
AL town as well as in large city. 1t is ou
m a deep senee of duty that we dwell on * i.
S subject, because our colored population
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