Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-07-01
Health-The Roman Campagna-The
Eucalyptus.

Mr.. Edst0r Very few people who have
not given the subject some attention, realize
how greatly our material prosperity, as well
as physical enjoyment land through sym
pathy with our bodies, our moral charac-
teristics,) are affected by attention or mat
tention to the principles of sanitary science
The Report of the Board of Health of New
Haven, Conn, whose President is Professor
Brewer, of Yale College, is a convincing
statement of the close relation between
good sanitary condition and the wealth of
community In reviewing this report, the
Popular Science Monthly for May, says in
substance; An individual to prosper must
be reasonably well the same is true of
State. No sickly community can be pros
porous; IL may be intelligent, moral and in
dustrious, but it must be poor. A single
pestlenee, such as recently visited Memphis,
will set the most furnishing city back for
many years. 1t took New Haven eight or
ten years TO recover from one visitation of
yellow fever, besides permanent loss in
the development of the city from the diver
sion of capital and population to other
places. No community can afford TO be
visited by an epidemic. Such visit would
cost more than the most expensive system
of sewerage and of garbage collection.
Can Rockville or the other growing and
flourishing villages and communities of our
county afford TO run any risk? Attention
is being turned to our breezy hills, with their
pure water and health-giving air (when I'M
CONTAMINATED as II convenient refuge from
the heats and maladies of our neghboring
cities. One epidemic of typhoid fever from
neglected cess-pools, contaminated drinking
water or vilely smelling pig pen, would
turn the tide of summer and permanent
visitors to other localities, and our material
prosperity, TO put it upon no higher plane,
would be seriously retarded Let il once be
understood that whenever we perceive an
odor, however disagreeabe, it is from parti-
Giles of the offensive material actually en-
tering our nostrils and mouths, and we will
be less amiable as TO enduring the repulsive
smells that 100 often burden the air
Great attention is being paid to sanitary
science by able minds. The single number
OF the Popular Science Monthly before al
luded to contains an interesting article on
the malaria Of the Roman Campagna, Ms
modified by the Eucalyptus tree; notice
of Prof. Brewers report above mentioned
of "Draining for Health" by J. Wilson, NJ.
d., and Of american Sanitary Engineer
ing" by Il. S. Philbrick, @. Il.
Prof Diapers article is interesting as
showing what may be accomplished by per-
elstcnl anu luttliiBCnt tHOIt. 1OuI ItducIS
are doubtless aware that this desolate and al
most uninhabited region, strikngly beautiful
as il is, with its rank growth of flowers aud
grasses, is the abode of n pestilence most
certain in its deeterious effects. II was
once the scene OF busy activity; towns
and villages and hamlets covered its gently
undulating surface, basking in the heat OF
its Italian sun, and returning many fold, the
labors of the husbandman. While il was
assiduously drained and titled and was held
in small quantities by those cultivating II,
health alone was borne upon the wings OF
the breeze. Passing by degrees into the
hands of large landed proprietors, II became
gradually uncared for and uncultvated.--
"The consequences may be imagined, but, 10
those who have not experienced them, are
not easily described This once fertile land
is now a horrid waste, untouched, except
at rare intervals by the hand Of the farmer,
and untenanted save by the herdsman. Even
he, during the months Of summer, when the
malaria is at its worst, is compelled, If he
viii avoid the fever, TO 60 with his flocks 10
the mountains" Now, however, science is
coming TO the aid Of the wretched inhabi-
tants, and the self-sacrfcing Monks of the
Monastery Of The Three Fountains have