Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-11-02
DIRT.

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front door of some dwelling in nearly
every square in the city, will suddenly
wake up to the discovery that the city ID
not in a good sanitary condition.
Ii is astonishing that until these sable
signs begin to appear, nobody can see
dirt, nobody suspects dirt, nobody VIII
acknowledge dirt when they see 1t.
The city employs Health Officer
at what is supposed to be an adequate
salary. The City Council has Health
Committee The Legislature, at rs
Last session. enacted an elaborate bill tor
estate Board OF Health, with sub
Boards in every town and city.
All these make no sign.
They are all emiuently clean. Ihey
have washed their hands Of all suspicion
OF dirt.
They won't talk Of dirt. 1t is only
when the continuous rumble OF the iu'
neral cOr;ege along our streets exc,t'S
public alarm, that men begin to suspect
that disease and death are, i'll soiuc mys-
FERROUS way, associated with dirt.
The msjority OF men won't eat dirt.
The majority of men won't sleep II
i;rt, ii they know 1t.
The majority oil men have 4 repus-
nance to dirt about their clothing.
But what's the harm OF brSothiag a
little dirt?
That's d common thing to 10.
Everybody does that, and makes no
mouth at it.
Themost iastidious ladies' breathe dirt.
Who's afraid?
Ii the dirt don't smell, what's tie
difference
If the breath of the neighbOring sewer
don't offend the oliactories; il the ten
thousand cess. pools OF the city are IN
odorous, men are observation-disclosures to
the fact that the most deadly pOisons
are iuoderous.
But the medical men agree, without 4
dissent, that the diseases which are
swel.in: the mortality lists OF the pres-
eut month are.
|. Preyentable diseases.
> Caused from impure air.
In other words, good eating, good
sleeping, aud 4 good regimen generally,
are nothing ii We don't have good
breathing pure air.
The air We breathe is, in fact, the
chief factor in our living-the inditter-
ence OF all men TO the contrary, IN any
wise, IS aforesaid, nevertheless, not
wi;hstanding.
Bad air will kill rats.
It's killing nice people all over the
city to-day.
It's killing iastidious people.
It's killing people who turn up their
noses at all dirt except that which they
breathe.
Go from a confined room OF foul and
poisonous atmosphere out into the uD-
polluted fresh air, aud feel the immedi-
ate thrill of new Lie which follows I sin.
gle draft into the lungs.
That's the difference between fonI air
and fresh air on the system.
TO from the fresh air OF the heavens
into "a crowded hall with no ventilation,
where thousand people have Tor an
hour or TIVE, been breathing, over and
over again, each others polluted enema.
tons from the lungs and skin, and feel
the quill, supplying sensations lmmedl-
atelv creeping over YOU, deprivlng you
of your wits and putting you to sleep.
That's the difference between fresh
air and foul air on the system.
\ hyperdermic injection into the blood
is not quicker in its effect than a draft
oil foul air into the lungs.
A man who Oreathes continually only
/ good air is imperyious TO disease. Like
/ the biOOnt l4lo 10
continually purified by tue influence Of
the life giving atmosphere. He could
hardly poison himself it he should try.
Go up on the mountains, away from
tilth, or upon the sea-shore in the pure
salt atmosphere, and you can eat what
YOU please. The same course OF living
in foul atmosphere would put you
under the sod in short meter.
In short, dirt IN the ar is an hundred
fold worse than dirt in the pot.
Dirt in the air is almost certain dis
ease.
Dirt in the air has darkened perhaps
an hundred homes in this city durin!
the past month.
Dirt in the air is the deadliest thing il
the catalogue.
When will people learn that it is vei
dirty, disease breeding habit to BREATH
dirt"