Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-10-14


sion of the most dreaded disease.
The pig sty may be classed with the
privy, it being as near as cousin if not
twin brother.
Slaughter-houses, unless the greatest
precautions are observed, are prolific
in the production of animal mlasm of
a very virulent character. An illus
tration of the effects of animal miasm
was recently seen in neighboring State.
A large tomb containing thousands Of
dead bodies was so foul from their de-
composition that ventilators were put in
the vault; Immediately the neighberhood
was flooded with the most horrid smells,
putrid diseases of various kinds pervad-
ed the once healthy section for several
seasons, until the cause was discovered
and removed, Immediately the epidem-
ceased.
The practice Of leaving dead sheep,
lambs, calves, dogs and other animals
on the surface Of the earth is very per-
niclous, and has been practically illus
lustrated in Granada. the yellow fever
stricken city of all the south.
Our best authorities are agreed that
yellow fever is invariably produced by
filth. The main sewer crossing the city
Of Granada became obstructed, and to
repair it, it was necessary to uncover
considerable portion of it; it was found
filled with carcasses of dead dogs, cats
and rats, the sun pouring its heated
rays on these remains, filled the atmos-
phere with stencil and disease, and with
in one week seventy of the two thousand
inhabitants g 1-3 per cent? sickened
Of yellow fever, and fourteen died in
one day (seven-tenths of one per cent.)
The dangers of stagnant water, and
the SO called dry mill ponds in hot
weather are patent to all.
Wells without covers are dangerous,
bushels of leaves finding access thereto,
and many small animals aid in impreg-
mating the water with disease produc-
ing elements.
The fact Of the increased prevalence
of diphtheria in our own country of late
may very likely be due. in part at least
to the more artificial mode of treating
children, its more common victims. For
it is shameful fact, that as results
Of modern fashion few children now,
~nonS vIsSooss, P.~r~.
or covering for their limbs, and still
smaller number take their food with
strict regularity, abstaining from it be-
tween meals as we'll as from candies,
raisins, nuts and other injurious and in
digestable trash, as they should.
The disease once produced by Of the
above causes may spread by contagion.
infection or incubation. Contagion is
the act or process of transmitting dis
ease from one person to another by di-
rect or indirect connection. Infection
is that which infects or causes the COM
municated disease. Inoculate is to COM
municate as disease to a person by
inserting infectious matter in his skin
or flesh.
To prevent this disease, as we'll as
other putrid febrile affections, children
and adults should take proper food with
strict regularity, should wear suitable
clothing, the arms and legs of children
being we'll covered and protected shoul(
} sleep in high. dry and clean apartments
be kept cleanly in person and dress
should avoid all unwholesome and indi
gestible food and trash, and all risk o
contagion from cases of the disease.
e Sink-drains should be rendered a
e perfect as possible, priyies placed remot
2 from dwellings and kept thorough
cleaned. hog-pens, stables and barn yard
: should be kept clean aud thorough
r disinfected, the drinking water shoul
l be pure. and only proper food should b
! taken with strict regularity by all, ol
j. and young. nothing being INDUCED
It between meals, except for children frol
!, one to four years old. Temperate
should be rule. and gluttony, as we'll 9
It intoxicants, including tobacco, shoul
If be avoided.
Is A radical reform in these respect
r and an avoidance of the pollutions
i and about dwellings, barns and ou
lr houses with proper sewerage wou
or greatly diminish the number of cases
$, well as the malignancy Of this and 9th
ar putrid diseases.
Id Such rational and proper cours
10 persevered in for reasonable tim
he would doubtless render them extinct,
er some of them at least.
on The disease being present the si
sr, should be isolated, in high, dry, all
MS cleanly room, with a southern and eas
or ern exposure if possible. The least p'
,ss sible furniture and no carpets, rugs
to mats should be in the room. The be
ding should be kept thoroughly Gle
of and well aired. Ventilation should
ID, reduced to system and insisted upe
ng Disinfectants, carbolic acid, sulphuro
ng acid gas, chloride of lime and ch