The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-10
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Correspondence of the Herald.
NEW ORLEANS, Au gust 8, lsSO
The. HERALD has begun more benetlcent
task in cleansing the foul cities and villages
of the south even than that contemplated
when it would purge the Augesn stables at
Austin and Washington. To plumber
payers is Lad enough; but when men in
Office, through sheer ignorance, and because
they have lived in filth, inhaling foul odors
all their lives, forget to guard the people
against disease and death, and against yellow
skins and slow fevers, and against plaques
like that which finally forced Memphis to
wash AMI bsthe, and then to purify the air
inhaled, when men in office neglect this first
duty, they, too, like public plunderers,
should be execrated and expelled from
power.
BOARDS OF HEALTH.
Boston, like wisely governed cities Of
this and the Old World, has aboard Of
health" Not very long ago this body tested
the water used by the people of North Ad'
ans. The report showed that ~ better Sc.
ries Of samples probably could not have
been taken to show how universal this con-
tamination of the soil with hlta has become
in North Adams"
This report was made in 1877. The water
did not ch1nge its color. 1t was still bright
and sparkling, but it put many people, only
q few weeks ago, to slow death. The facts
demonstrate tine danger involved in drinking
the most pellucid water percolatng through
II HloI .rYtth Hanol 1Aianp ANn opnc -
taught that the infinite danger Of drawing
water supplies from wells or clsterhs, unless
very remote from sinks, vaults and sewers.
AN EXPERTS OPINION.
Prof. Austed who has devoted many years
and sedulous careful inquiry to the solution
of facts incident to the care of public health,
says in his recently published book, that ITO
be wholesome aud fl. for the supply Of towns,
water should be free from color, taste and
smell, giving no unpleasant oder either when
cold or heated to boiling. To secure these
conditions, it is now clearly determined that
it is better to go to the rivers and large run
ming bodies of water than to suburban wells
or springs Rivers are the natural sources
of water supply for all populations residing
near them. Fouled at certain points by
sewage they run clear and comparatively
pure water after an interval of few miles.
Specimens of Thames water taken on the
same day at short intervals from Hammer.
smith to Woolwich, and analysed by Profess
sor Miller, attest the rapid oxidation which
the sewage undergoes and the proportlonate
improvement of the water as it flows onward.
Even in the case of the lrwell, swollen with
the pollution of the past manufacturing dis
~ - anJ a,ounI Monnhaatar Ennland
DR.. Farmland found it altogether changed
at Warrington (sbout nine miles below
where it ceases to be an offensive stream
The latest experiments to test the rate of
publication in running water, made by DR..
Tidy, of England, prove that when water
containing one pint of ordinary London
sewage added to twenty pints of water was
allowed to fall slowly from height Of seven
teen feet in five and half minutes through
the air the oxygen required to neutralize the
organic matter at the twentieth fall was fifty
per cent. less than at the beginning of the ex-
pertinent, and after fifty fall nearly eighty
per cent. of the sewage in the dilution WAS
oxidized and rendered harmless. With such
data before the world municipal authorities
are responsible to provide water supply from
the nearest and Purest running water, and
should close up all suburban subterranean
supplies that can possibly be dispensed.
TEH LESSON TAUGHT.
1t should never be forgotten that Waco,
Austin, Dallas and San Antonio, resting on
river banks, can be made perfectly healthful.
n Every vault and depository of filth in each Of
these places should be filled with cath, and
eartAen pipes, leading to the river, substitu-
al Is oslynl NH Nf tho cptIthorp
towns lose the bloom of youth and beauty,
shavng yellow eyes and sallow faces, remem-
Der that they live in houses and not the open
!, air, and that they are poisoned first with
\ foulness of air and water. They are abso-
lutely put to death and make themselves old
! by the ignorance of selflshness of those that
love them most, and regard them most ten
derby in their fetid, poisoned homes.
POLLUTION oE RUNNING STREAMS.
Learned aldermen of Texan towns and
Villages have refused to provide for purity of
Air and water by substituting earthern pipes
under ground for the foul pits that send up
scountless columns of baleful odors in every
back yard in every semi.savage
town and city. Aldermen have
been advised, even by Texas doctors, that
\ the value of the water of a river for fish,
Breeding and manufacturing purposes would
be destroyed if the filth produced by 10000
people we're projected into it. The answer
to this assumption, given above by Professor
4 Ansted, is final, and the Legislature should
enact code compelling every incorporated
town and city of Texas to adopt scheme of
( thorough purgation. Then that barbarous,
Expressive and ruinous quarantine code will
20 into de.netude, and foul fevers and desc
isting plaques and jaundiced men and
( women will be unkno wn in Texas.
8 OLD TEXAN.