The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-11-18
xr.stieal Results Of Sanitary Science.

nfaS&ical Results Of Sanitary Science.
I would submit the enclosed letter,
written to the Council Of our Society OF
Arte. to show the money gain. as wen
y tho gain in health and life. achieved
here. as vet by incomplete, rudimentary
sanitary measures l hope to see early
samples of their more complete apPh-
cation in the United States:
ssThe first British army went out TO
Crimea under the established curative
or medical service, and it was lost.
Sanitary commissioners, trained in serv-
ice under the first General Board OF
Health. were then sent out to reform
the condition of hospitals and camp,
and within three months reduced the
sickness and mortality from plague
rate down to an ordinary standard OF
health, and by the end OF the summer
of 1855 to a rate lower than that OF the
best hospitals at home; and the War
Minister declared in Parliament that by
the application of their science the sec
.ond army had been saved. Formerly
the death rate in the Indian Army was
50 DER 1000 per annum. The average
mortality from 1869 to 1873 was only
2O.4l; there was, therefore. q gain OF
1859 per 1000, or, on the present force
out there, q gain of 1850 men. The
-death rate of the army at home was
formerly IS per 1000. In the year 1879
it was 7.55, being a gain OF lO.ao per
LOCO. As the strength OF the army IN
that year was $1,000, the gain was o43
DER annum. The total gain to the army
In India and the army at home. and the
rest of the army, will be 3, 43S men per
annum. As each soldier is estimated
1t ElOO, this represents in money value
f344, 600, or more than third OF q
million. It is not very easy to get az
the real amount of the sickness; but the
total gain, including the Diminished
death rate, is considered to be underra-
ted at E5O0, 900 per annum.
"The total number of men killed on
the battlefield and on the deck, IN
Guiding those killed at Waterloo. Ira
faigar and the most severe battles DUR
inc the twenty-five years war, was
according to the army returns, 1880
The lives saved from premature de-
sruction by the civil sanitary service
during each of the ten years OF the de-
.cade. was p. 900. The wounded during
the TWENTY-FIVE years war were 79,709;
hut. taking serious sickness as equiv.
aient to a wound. the achievement Of
the sanitary service has been, during
the Same period, some 5000. 600 OF cases
saved by the civil sanitary service. The
deaths by steam explosions, in mines
and on railways, amount to about 5.OO(
annually. but the lives saved by the
civil sanitary service in England ane
Wales are five-f0ld greater than tht
lives thus destroyed by civil academia
violence. A reduction of the death rat'
by four and one-half per cent. is onl.
an installment of sanitary progress. Thu
in the instance of Croydon, visited b.
the delegates of the Congress, tn
death rate has been reduced from TWEEN
.ty-five to sixteen per one thousand
chiefly by the methods introduced D.
the first General Board of Health. b.
which spring supplies of pure water ar
carried into the houses and the foule
water carried at once Oat OF the house
and out of the town, by one local boar
-aUCnOrlCy, WINie oil pun oSSA"ho
ter, instead of remaining for month
and wears in conditions of putrefactior
as undecomposed. and flows upon tn
land within two hours. So in Salisbur!
Harrington and a number OF othe
places. At Croydon, it has been state
Sbv DR.. Alfred Carpenter that, by con
.pIete sanitation the death rate might 3
reduced to ten in one thousand. In tn
metropolis the death rate among tt
wage classes in their common dwellinE!
isu upward of thirty per one thousand.
the model dwellings in London It'll HOY
ever about sixteen or seventeen, eve
with surrounding deteriorating COMO
lions. On the demonstrations OF val
Gus model instances it may be held tn
the reduction of the general death "a
by four and one-halt per cent. as 7
ported, satisfactory as this is. cannot
considered more than one-third of &
results obtainable by advanced santa
administration and further santa
works. "-EdWin. Chadwick, IN the Sd
starry Engineer.