The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-03-02
A SANITARY SUGGESTION,

BE NEEDED
We are going to give good advice TO our
citizens They can take or leave il Us they |
please, But we give notice that if it is not
taken, and sickness kills our people next
summer ana fall as il did last year. we shall
point at those whose duty ii was to act
upon our advice, and say oftcn--say with
reiteration that must certainly offend some
body: "Wc told you So
We advise the immediate organization of
a Sanitary Association. The best citizens,
the poor, the well-to-do and the richest
should be members Of it, and its object
should be to take care of the sanitary con
dtion OF the city, and in thi, way help
TO keep of any epidemic that may
again threaten the valley OF the
Mississippi, and to provide Tor
the proper care OF the sick and burial
of the dead in the event that another cpl
denic should appear among us.
We must have no more OF the dreadful
mismanagcmcnt OF last year. There must
be no more junketing quarantincs-no half
quar0ntining quarantine that will open
to the SESAME" OF bad women or ctftr
persuasive people with influence" in the
quarantine office. We must have no more
OF the pomp and ceremony of medical ig-
norance publicly talking over telegraph
wire, and Intellectually doing a great deal
of nothing in the worst possible manner.
We must have no more OF panic alarm
in everybody and making abandonment
in sickness and a dogs burial in the event
Of death assured facts. We must
have no more OF the bravery that results
from incbrietv or the malice that rejoiccs at
the death from pestilcucc Of this or that
citiznn-that makes the doctor mean
enough TO say of a death Good, and the
public officer to follow tn" expression with {:
Il hop, it viii! 60 on till it kills some
other Of the people don't like" We must
hay. no more of that condition Of affair,
that gives opportunity 10 any
one to speculate in corpscs Of citizen, as
in cords Of wood, We must have no more
Of the condition Of affairs that mounted
Harlequin ON death wagon and allowed
him to drive furiousiy through the streets
stopping at the doors Of houses in which
the pcstilcncc had done il work, dumping
the bodies into collins, throwing the coifins
into the wagon and driving horribly away
with them to unknown places where they
were hastily crowded into shallow holes
without friend to do the last sad rites OF
the dead. We must get ready for the worst
and. if the wors. comes, be ready 10 receive
it with becoming dignity. This may be
done by the organization OF Sanitary As
cclation,
Suppose We had organized such society
last sprng-in March, for misunderstood
month, before the epidemic ragged in Cairo
Suppose the membership OF the Association
to have been two hundred. Mr. Blank wa
president; Mr. Enterprise. secretary; Mr.
Richman. treasurer; and Messrs. Ears, Most
and Eyes executive committee Each mem
Der had paid in s. initiation fee, and :.
: monthly ducs. The fever became cpidcmi,
F, in New Orleans and Memphis, and alaru
! began TO grow in Cairo, The uxecutiv,
, committee began to use it, Ears, its Nost
} and its Eyes, and the people were tol(
. through the Association to clear
+ their premises If they neglected the As
I ISOLATION compelled them to do the worl
or did it for them The Association CAV,
the authorities support in making an effec
tua quarantine The Association die
,everything to prevent the disease from get
ting into the city. But, being wise, TIT
Association prcpared for tho worst. /
hired i've or ten professional nurses. It en-
gagged men to bury the possible dead.
, determined where they should be burict
and how. IL determined how the house.
! in which fever deaths occurred should D,
disinfectcd, and how their live inu,otc,
should be isolated and cared for. Il was
reported to the Association that man or
; Poplar street had the fever. The A%ocia
ton sent nurses to look after the patient
aud took care the house was isolated
The nun died and was buried with de-
ccncy. The bed on which he died and his
, clothing were destroyed without parade
, This family was taken care of. Other cases
, were reported, and the Association acted