Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-09-14
Source OF Epidemic Diseases.

half century warrant me in saying
that the time will come when il will be
|disgrlcatul for u city or family to
have yellow fever, typhoid fever, camp
fever or cholera, as it now is for school
districts and families to have the itch
and lousy children. Through extensive
travel, from time to time, | became in
love with the beautiful climate and tu-
ture possibilities of the South, and soon
began to study the peculimities of its
dreadful scourge-the yellow fever. BY
drivingintothe country from thcintected
cities, | was aStOnished to find that no
cases had ever originated on the planta-
tons, clearly showing it was not Il eli
matte, but an Gndemical disease. On
further investigation | found that each
afflicted city had its infected districts,
while other portions Of the same city
We're in excellent health. Further
analysis showed the disease ragged worse
among the dissipatod and poorly fed,
showing c~onclusiyely the disease is de-
pendent on bad sanitary conditions.
Just the same with cholera and typhoid
feyerS in the North. Forty-six years
ago cholera made its appearance in New
York, thence communicating with the
filthy landings up the river, then from
Albany and Troy up the Erie Canal as
if it needed the waters on which to swim,
thus dealing destruction and death TO
all swampy stations through its whole
length to BRiIalo, but it had no power
to climb the hills where good sanitary
conditions existed. The same results
were again experienced in 1913 and
1852, clearly showing the disease was
endemic, and that it complied strictly
with the rules of %etiquettc-uever to
visit a place to which it had not been
invited by its bad sanitary conditions.
Fitty-four years ago arobust, middle
aged Vermont uncle, who boasteda lO0-
COW dairy, suddenly died of typhus fever,
generated in II field where the whey was
fed, being almost literally poisoned by
his own hand,
Forty years ago it was talked in Cen
trail New York that the diseases were
changing from malariul to u typhoid
VIZ "il'I "Glo Ilo c'4'oS' AI!S.l$,
causes. The feculent matter trom drains,
water-closots and grayeyards began to
poison the water supply, and often emit
UelT'Jl.QuS uses 5e25 c"usy2 "Ie gen
oi"I' ou. I'lt"5J' "'Io o''lc' Su'or more
Vha,l tus4' uiS'rloI3' O..
ti'oo1' wy Ict" anu L'lh o. 'IiaSt|9
al'u VIli,5 DoI"7 ~Ule"o'luIl "iIIlcleo WIN
S"L'Goa ''''G 'I'rG.'I' "oIliI, On 5h'eS-
uS3tlon, IL IS Illu,lea 20 ne'ghoorhood'
"'iH Pooply VI PeIulat h'o'Ia'
q lo" "IAloi'aEH II was '.I'a tlaJ Inl-
o"So was OeIDs "''i'eIGu "'Ih one most
Il".ISn'nD y PV Va sN"t'cJ lever Iu"I was
olot ALo"L' 90 LiucH alarmed was me
COUNTY IIol uarGu nov WISH Ihelr On
uaSo lII9,,1', anu lullor"I ceremonies
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~ PIo'lou'IJ Io"le ~ INC conGilSloll
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90 - ~ ~ '"' "D,uo 1 Ie'J CuIlou5 I'd
hho" .no cause Oh OhicaSo,S great allie
son lh'@sllTaVI9n showed that the dis
Gus WAS GoI'Ilteq 10 lHe alslTic's along
we oL",'c"t9 ol Vne CnIcago hl'ef, and
uho@yI5 10 llo Souyh oEaAch' where are
sle"' slaughter houSoS o1tho city.
fIur J,eaIS aSo came nome rom q
ren 95ss aosc"c9' ana was toId th25 a
lo'Sho9I'nS you"S i'uy Illd oled ct
llphoio l7'er' ana me rest u the family
Toa' l0t'g SIGN l was shocked lor' ten
u"Js po.olo, LI'9 sIiI ana ner iamliy
were among VhG most ROBUST to be met
on 'he street lnelr residence was on
Oio n'snGSO polHI III inns vicinity, and
suPPo2Gu 10 DC one o. inc most healthy
III nc oIIye' u couio De The cause
VI 'ngiL llllGSS' l ney were "eII-to'do and
lhteIilsenI farmers out' lke many farm
EiSi n y hurry lor spring work they
ntq letC tno spring cleaning OF the
Goil"ls lQL Il RAINY cay ana premature
"ga.het simulated decay IN refuse
AAf II M 1sna 10 -H ANl#l .l-aA l.