The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-08-24
THE Alton Democrat of Thursday in an

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editorial says;
Dr.. Radch, president Of he state board Of health
| Ia, returned o Chicago rom CARO-, where he has
been cooperang with his colleagues to prevent The
introduction Of yellow Fever ipio this sac. call
was upon him 10 learn tue results ofhis oh eryatons
| He said that for the last three weeks the amos
! pheric copdt ons at Cairo have been favorable to
the development and spre. Of yellow fever. 1t I,
only by the utmost vigilance that II has been kept
ont.
As We predicted in our issue of yesterday,
this SANDER of DR., Rauch upon our city
would obtain widespread publicity by
reason of emanatng from an official source.
OF course truth will be slow in overtaking
the doctors calumnious assertions, hut it
will prevail in the end. THE BULLETIN has
maintained right along that our atmospher-
&c conditions were unfavorablc to the prop
aga,ion of malarial diseases, and cited in
proof OF our position the experiences Of
thirty years, backed up by the OPP Mons Of
our leading physicians. DR.. Rauch, by the
grace OF Gov. Culom president of the
state board of health, comes among us and
in a visit covering period not exceeding
ten days, Discovers that our atmosphere is
favorable to the spread Of yellow fever
We do not believe that the doctor under
stood the full import Of his words when he
gave uttcrance 10 them. His mind reflected
hi, feelings, and his feelings were narrowed
up with fright Added 10 this was de-
>iro--a weakness rather with really great
dpctors-to take advantage Of the pub
lie interest cenleriDg in everything per
tain NJ To the scourgc, and display himself
in the role of a SAVIOR who had impcrilled
hi, noble litc in behalf of thrcatcncncd hui
mainly. Had the doctor confined himself
TO cxtoling his owh extraordinary efforts
here, we should not have complained much,
although we believe the city Of Cairo, ana
not Dr. Rauch, or the board he represents,
will have 20 foot the expenses Of all protec-
tive measures 50 far adopted. But when he
forgcts to talk about himself for "A moment,
and drops into saying thinos of us which
/ are already working to our injury, he
| should not vince at criticisms upon
/ his opinions of our atmospheric conditions.
/ The experiences we have spoken of--Our
| freedom from contagious disease Of every
| form-has been matter Of record for years
| in the medical scn ice of the United States,
and DR.. Rauch, while in that service would
| doubtless have become familiar with that
record if he had applied himself with pro-
per zeal to the duties of his profession.
Dr. G. r. Allen, medical inspector L. S. A.,
in a report to the head of his service said
that Cairo was the healthicst spot in the
West on which the government could erect
marine hospital and that during the war
the number of deaths in the military hospi-
tai located here was less in proportion to
the patients treated than at any other point
in the West In assigning the causes which
led to such bcncfcent result, he explains
in scientific manner what every old and
intelligent citizen of Cairo knows to be a
fact from experience. Says Dr. Allen
But the great canse ever operating to free Cairo
from miasmndc, endemic and epidemic influences
exists In the fact that the water on one side OF
Cairo. In the Mississippi river, II brought from the
far north, where the Fpthcr Of Waters" drinks his
ncvcrfailing supply from the crystal bosoms Of an
hundred hypcrborcan lakes; while large part Of
that In the Ohio river, on the other side Of the
town, flows through the Cumberland and Tenncs.
see rivers from the very heart Of Dixie and " Al
ways several degrees warmer ,hrn the former where
their channels meet The air over the ohio at Cairo
is therefore, corrcspondngly warmer than the air
over the Mississippi on the opposite side Of the
city The necessary result Of this palpablc fact Is
that the warmer air over the former river asccnds,
and the cooler air the later rshes In to take ii-
place nnd, consequently. they constantly have very
free and cool breeze from the Mississippi, over and
through Cairo 10 the Ohio, that promptly drinks up
every gus as rapidly M II IL generated.
DR.. Allen was located here for years.