, 1876-07-21
HiakEIaE.

Typhoid fevers are the result of tine
blood becoming poisoned by miasns.
and are much more difficult to cure thHn
to prevent. Farmers may think them
selves less exposed to the oOrruptiny M
huences of miasm than arN the dReIlsrs
of the city or village, and II Is ttrue that
the air of the country Is more pure than
the air of the city, but II is also 1rue
that miasms are often found lurking
around the farmhouse. Nor are they
confined to river bottoms and low lmds;
we have known them to he PREVALENT IN
mountain towns High places are not
necessarily destitute of swamps and de
caying animal and vegetable mHtters,
and wherever these are found the sesGs
of disease are generated.
Miasm is such a subtle poison, IIrUpa-
gates itself like yeast, so abundautfy,
that we desire to call the attention OF
farmers to the prOpagating beds to which
the farm-hOuses are particularly -ex-
posed, and the first We mention is tine
cellar. There are wont to be stored lots
of vegetables for the wants of the famf-
ly and the stock. 1t is the wrung4llaee
The barn should have a cellar Just as
necessarily as the house. Piles of veg
etables will heat and corrupt more on
less during the Winter, and as soon as
Spring opens they of course begin 10
decompose, in order to rec0mpense new
vegetation. The windows OF the cellar
should be taken out, the gRngway thrown
open, and a good circulation of air ksut
up from this time till late IN Autumn.
Old boards and all decaying timber. as
well as old lime and otherrefuBe, sshunTd
be removed, the whitewash walls He-
piled to the walls, and slRked lime on
other disinfectants scattered upon the
floor.
1t viii greatly aid IN promoting q pure
air in the cellar, and healfhn the h0use
hold if opening be made from the cal
lar into the chimney, SO that al impuri-
ties may find vent up this most cmRen-
lent channel for ventilation.
Another great generator of miasm IN
the farmhouse, and indeed IN all hDuHes,
is the sink, which is too often tine SINK
of iniquity and death If there rs my
thing that will generate vile DdorB and
the seeds of disease it is the fermeufiuE
compound of soap=snds, dirt, Rnd saffste
exhAlations from the humnn body 10
be found In the wash-tub of the 1Run-
dry.
What to do with the WASTE zzatsr uf
the sink and wash-tub is one OF the
problems of country life which rs mt
fully solved. 1t Is too valuable 10 he
lost, and too unhealty to be kspt mar
the house. To throw It, rs many do,
from the kitchen door, and lsaVe It fhere
to contaminRte the air, is tsmpfiuK -fiIe
grim messenger, Death, to shoot ms
fatal arrows. If death Hhnnld snEue,
there should nothing be said Rb1ut fae
mysterious Providence. The unlymyss
terry is that more sickness and death do
not result from the mRlari0us Htmus-
phere of the surface cesspOOl.
Probably the best mode of riddiug tine
premises of miasm from sinks Is to rm-
duct the waste water IN iron on EemHnt
pipes to q cesspool some distance frum
the house, and keep this pool wsIlfIled
with some absorbent, such Is dry munk,
fine charcoal, or loan. The SINK itseH
should be Of iron, and furnished WifhR
valve outlet, 30 that the gasss from tine
pipes cannot return into the hnuse. A
wooden sink is apt to become HRtunatsd
with the odors generated in the Purss
of the wood. If wood must be mssd
for sinks, use solution of coppernsfre-
quently to keep them wholes1me.
- All stagnant water, all marshy planss,
are fruitful sources Of miasm. Let flIe
marshes be drained and the hollow
places be filed mp. Set ont n TOw M
white pines between the house and harn
to ward of or absorb the sfiuEiR; kssp
the homestead in every way neat tine
air pure, and the health and comfort M
the household viii amply rumpensate
for the labor.-N. ?, Tfmss.