Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1878-08-24

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Eas-Iassrsssisg Csoaasteasiss
Srsa Dr. Frtsehsrd 81 rhsss
aud Kisdred sahjeess-
The following letter from DR.. Prtch-
ard, President Of the Board OF Health
OF Virginia. was received last evening
too iate for insertion. II will b read
with interest
Enron GoLp HILL NKws-Dsar Sir /:
I see in a late issue Of your paper IN
article on health /; and while I agree
with most OF the statements made In
that article. there are n or two
which I wish to tsks issue with /: that
| vegetables grown in soil vatsrsd with
sewage water are unvholssome I ques-
| ton. and I would like some authority on
the subject : or that there 10 any ANAL
oey between the grass irrigated with
sewage water fed to cows whose milk
vas infectious and bulbous vegetables
irrigated with sewage water 1 also
question.
The case cited in the Msrylebone dis
trict would be similar 10 n whore the
cows drank the sewage water. Lettuce
that has been vatsrsd BY sprinkiing the
water ON the top. ~ 10 dons here In
Virginia at the Chinese gardens. Ii -
filthy and unit for human food - the
milk from cows that = allowed 70
drink the sewage water or eat b sviii
FROM our restaurants aud boarding
houses.
The "a recorded In the London Ian
Get Of December. 1873. pags $50. IL .
very good one. II Is very brief. and i
would recommend those interested TO
read. The article referred 10 states that
cheese or condensed milk cannot be
made from milk from cows allowed sven
TO breathe impure air from either do
caysd animal or vegetable matter. What
then must be the condition OF the milk
from cows that eat dscaysd animal and
vegetable matter such ~ swill. and are
allowed N drink sewage water N well
as allowed and even forced 10 stand In
lots where old bones and dead animals
are undergoing ~putrsfaction ~ Ii the
case here in Virginia.
will call your attention 10 n more
very striking case on the effects Of i'm
pure water on cows milk, and II In
found In the Practitioner Of September.
1871, page 225. and states that DC per
cent. Of . certain d~Airyman's customers
we're attacked with eptsric fever. while
only three per cent. Of the families IN
the same district taking no milk or milk
from other dairiss were similarly At
tackled.
Since I saw the article on Health In
in your paper I have been to the Chinsss
gardens, east Of this city. and got
samples OF o few vegetables grown
there, viz {: onions. carrots. corn. turn.
ips and bests ; also . sample OF the soil
they are grown In. and also like samples
from Hatch Bros. grown on the Carson
river, and have made tho following ex'
periments upon them. viz 1 took q
portion Of each sample and scraped II
and put Il into clean glass tubes or bot
ties, and put two ounces OF clean
water on each sample and lot them stand
over night. thus making an infusion,
and I could smell no bad or offensive
odor or taste, different In those raised
in the soil irrigated with sewage water
and those from Hatch Bros. with the
exception Of the beet, and that only va
RED in taste and color. which may have
been caused by one being wiltsd aud the
other being fresh.
A member Of tho Board Of Health
happened in. and he thought the sample
OF turnips from the Chinese garden had
the hest odor. The specific gravity.
tested by the lactometer (Which Ii q
very delicate test) was the same In the
starchy infusion Of corn. and the Others
would not be expected to vary. This
morning I made decoctions OF them In
pairs At the same time and still NO bad
odor could he detected in the steam or
svaporations. This test may seem un-
important and cannot DO called an
analysis, bat you will remember the
faot that the disease-producing part OF
even swill milk cannot Be detected BY
analysis, or any miasma in anything.
and we only know Il Is UNIT for use by
its effects on the human System.
The yellow fever scourge canno be
analyzed by chemists. In the atmos-
phsre, and yet We know Il IL in II only
by its dreadful results. My olfactory
organs are good. and swill milk can b
told BY its odor alone. by almost any
one, a. compared with other milk. Tbs
lettuce grown by tho Chinese here 10
unfit for use, and sven woss-f wons
r.n ha-than avill milk.