The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-03-24
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UIbhN VIZ
We have said II before and wa say II
egain, for II Il not trite quotation, that
"olesnllnoss !, noxl 10 goodness" The
spring Is upon US and with II, liz warm days
It's growing vegetation, and IL behooves Dali
las TO begin TO put herself 10 first class san.
itary condition. During the winter, with It's
unusual weather, It's eloeis, SHOWS and rains,
1t was next 10 impossible for the light street
and acsvenger force tho city has, 10 keep the
city clean, to remove its filth accumulations,
and the consequence is that now
the highways, byways, alloys, and
back lots of the city are filed to reple
ton with refuse matter. The cutters are
reeking, the garbage piles are beginning to
ferment and tester under the heat of The sur,
and unless our municipal authorities set
themselves vigorously to work, unlsose the
ci'y's purse strings and authorize the health
officer to have this city thoroughly cleaned ,
we are going to reap fearful harvest of dis
ease and death. We have not been as yet
visited with an epidemic, but Dallas for two
months or more past has been
scourged with the visitation of a
iirefully fatal sickness. Congestion and
oerebro-spinal meningitis have been very
fatal, though fortunately, not very prevalent
We read in the papers of the country that
fatal diseases exist everywhere throughout
the union. There seems to be contsg ion
and disease in tho very atmosphere and there
is no reason to believe or to hope that the
spring and the summer, always the sickly
seasons, will be any healthier. Why, then,
should we not prepare for possible danger
ahead? Whyn not do all in our power to avert
the danger, to remove the cause? The city
council can if it will have Dallas made as
clean and as pure as high rolling prairie
that never koew plowshare or the presence
Of man. Next month. we are to have q
municipal election, and this question of
cleanliness ought to be made &n issue in the
canvass. 1t is simply a question of health
and happiness weighed in the balances with
dollars and cents. 1t will cost something 10
have the city pat in good sanitary condi-
ton, but it will not cost much If it is not,
if the filth accumulatioss of months are
suffered to remain in the cutters, in the sew
ers, in the closets, in the alleys, in
the back yards Of the city, the rains
and heat Of the spring and summer will soon
start them to fermenting and decaying and
the foul gases they will emit, poisonous to
the human system, dreaded malaria thst
vitisses the blood and breeds all manner of
sickness, will impregnate the air and the
people will take it up in every breath they
draw. Decsying and fostering under the
rains and the heat, these filth accummula-
tons will soak into the ground and seaping
through the soil, find their way to
the wells of the city and poison
the water we drink and use for
csoking purposes. We ara not making state
ments at random. Every citizen of this city
who reads this article, knows that what we
say is true. Every citizen certainly knows
that if the city is not thoroughly cleansed
bilu hept 10, tuhb " WASH dos vi eiShh9sS WIZ
ensue this spring and summer. If this be
true then, why not clean the city? The high
est perfection of the medical science is TO
remove causes ard prevent sickness The
medical fraternity have agreed, all schools of
medicine, that ell manner of fovers md cpl
denies ara traceable to direct causes
brought about by decaying vegetable
or aoimsl m,ttar, or both. A cess pool,
garbage pile or something of that kind pro-
vides malaria. It emits it, and mingling with
the atmosphere it is taken up il the lungs
and tsinting the blood with its poison, ty-
plus or some other kind of fever ensues and
suffering and distress is entailed. Ask tho
intelligent wellinformed physicians of this
city and they will tell you that if wise and
stringent sanitary measures are not taken,
and promptly, that much sickness will be
natural and poitive consequence. The HER
AID Is not an alarmist and is not saying a
word in The nature Of anything sensational,
bu. IN an abundance Of caution, 1t " es that
the city be olesned,