New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-03


| the sandstone. After waiting minute or two no
applied lighted taper to the end OF the other iron
R the that bs cas- ana
rcmns then tsok block Of -, !riGkwq9rk
eight inches in thickness, made of Philadelphia
brick, with plates and tubes attached in the same
manner as t. the sandstone. BY blowing through
one of the tubes a candle-light placed at the
| emu OF the other was ueueCteu
And this DETECTION lasted for some
time after the blowing had ceased, showing thai 10
took some time for the air to go through the Brlck
Professor Dorenus said that he told Judge Brady
! how this experiment was performed. The Judge
| listened to HIM atteutively, and then remarked
| Tell me the trick, Professor"
gas could be passed through stone IN the same way
AMI that the pressure necessary to accomplish IL
| was very small He then made one or TWO more
experiments to show how readily some gases passed
through water, and continued as follows;
What must do, il we have the gases in our sewers
does no good the gases will pass through the water.
We must have chemicals in the trap that will deconp0se
ring breaker" that will decompOse hydrogen gas and
every form of poison Suppose there Is case OF scarlet
fever in house, and tue walls become lmPregnasoa
with the poison. Chlorine or some other gas
shoud be generated that will decompose fGe
Atlanta arrived al this port with number OF cholera
Patients Sixty Of her passengers had already Gou AZ
the request of the Health Paysician Oh ne ny,
and by the authority OF Mayor GUNNER
and DR.. swinburne the Health officer, the Atlanta
with chlorine bromine and other active agents rms ms
was so effective that not sigle case Oh cho'oI" W
cured in New York or its vicinity.
Dr. Agnew has informed that about thirty years ago
the North wing OF the Ola New 1oIh 10 p pm
saturated with disease through the reception OF large
number OF snip lever patients. Ventilation was ItICu,
but in vain. The walls were scrapcd. but many
of the wOrkmcn sichened, and one AT least ul ol'
At the Lincoln County Hospital in England the Walls Walls
became magazines Of disease in the same way Ihey
Quilted ana replasercd but II did no soou tncy
then treated according to the HeDr1c System,
ana torn down to the very foundation. rev
years ago, certain wards In Bellevue HOHpitai were
Commissioners OF Caary and Correction atteGptcdt0
purify them by the use OF chlorine gas gcncrateu
during many weeks. Every few months now
the chlorine treatment, IN less vigorous
Dr. James K Wood stated, three years after the com
mencement 81 TINS trenent, In "a" yI h " SnnieJ
think that we are warranted IN saying thlt OWING 10
the rorous character of all walls ana tue decOupos-
ing power Of certain gases, can purify not oh5 the
walls but the very stones of any edcc II only the treat
llent eod rs hs dra OF ens On DtccmGcr l. last
was 20 deliver lecture, illustrated by experiments
in which ms SON fourteen years old to assist The
day before ho died from The evil effects of sewer gas
Another on IL ist recovering from the effects OF an
~ i,ueFi The 'u' President here TONIGHT woud
rather nave given my tho deaoiiest poison IN my
have had him nhlc this gas Tor tic deadly elects
OF which We have no remedy.
WHAT WILLARD PARKER SAID.
President Barker then said that he would call
next upon an ex-Prcsident of the Academy and one
whom those present knew was well acquainted
with the subject, DR.. Willard Parker who spoke
| briefly as follows:
Think this is subject Of the greatest Importance and
one which ii j.. our duty to be Interested in. In 1916
perhaps some Of You remember TIE snip rover WlieI
! think, but that There were many cases OF
mis- disease then at Beley ,iSo,, H naa5,;
bcng stretched everywhere on the floor In the morn
ing they usod to 20 through the wards and PICK up
dozen moro dead persons Yet tLcfS h2G al GTS Sn
patients Eaffa 'Or finally came in sac4 number, aa5
yard under the trees Aud nearly ali those who
thus exposed to the AR recovered suppose taal many
upon the shore at Perth AnoP }, sac
had had many cases of snip ieyeT on board ann
while these patients were confined TO inc sup iuey
nearly al died When the ship went ashore the patients
were tokcn ont and placed under hastily imprOyised
canvas covers; and not one OF them died These cases
only show the great Importance OF ar. ,,, , o,
buy i wrong Previous to the Introduction OF CrolOn
water in this city. don't remember single case OF
son,e which resembed dipbthera. and then 1t is
q disease which depends on malaria or
members mad "a friend physician, who depended on
lbs cellar for all tho air for ms furnace hls
and ali of them died. And there are cases OF
fiat description everywhere. say that II we have
II were 10 build house wonId not have it connected
a sort OF annex, where l should have
al the sewers, closets, and all the pipes Of the houses;
suppose most OF yon would object TO- haTm9 h ona'
and connected win it by, gipc Yet this
Water is no protection from them-from the germs OF
poison whica generate and live in the ioH air Tins
| matter demands most earnest attention, Tor we
are in a very critical and unhealthy condition.
OTHER REMARKS.
Dr. Barker then referred to the presence of two
physicians who had been members of the Board of
Health, and said he would call upon them in the
order of their seniority. In re .ponsa, DR.. Wander
pocl said in part:
It time for pbyslcans to know not only the clements
but they mast know the principles OF plumbing
and the sanitary construction oil houses 5" a. 20 poJ
ont their defects 1t is Impossible TO trust mere
mechanics defect not pointed out is that there Is no
soil drainage proper in New YORK, and although there
arr connecting with every house there IA h9 chance
for tlc moisture OF the soil to escape PhhS5 has been
shown here am in England 70 be induced by thls char
arer of the soil athou< IN England the Use OF PROPER
drains has diminished disease Ihrrc is much cd Spll
here aud provision has been made Tor the release OF
While il is advisable to have soil pipes exposed to view
CANT dwellings and in small houses space - too vaua,
ble At the Joints Of the pipes mere sAoIi DC careful
caulliup with tow lead and sulphur. But when tho
Pl.e, ~ S tin coUiling is consequently often done
ONLY half way around the remainder OF the Joint being
iii uutoucncd Ihe sanitary engineer is assuming an
I,rrt nIecc i'm tie professions and every house
should be Inspected
| Dr. Jaueway then said in part:
It is hard distinguish between sick
ness from gas and sickness caused ny no'ous
disease germs. conveyed in the sewers smallpox may
come from germs the sewers but no one would attb-
ute 1t gas In regard TO dPhtherl, however,
il IS icsa plain The portability OF dphthcretc poison il
greater than is supposed. In my own practice a
ca.s occuTrrd where It was carried from Brook
lyn to Florida in trunk, a child Lad
died from diphtheria in a fine house III Brook
I'm and the parents VITA two others went south. At
Pl9tLa the trunks uupackcd, and toy rabbit
taken out for a child which the dead cld td used Tor
naCthing I'm three days the child taken with dph
iberia which there no other cases there and in
five vas dead; ana the other child few weeks later
.uccllubcd to disease place In the interior
oi Florida where dphtheria had been unknown
The germs convey by the IaOp anu IN clo,nhg
Ne hDud be careful ia always att1butlng diseases to
sewer gas. .,.,,.-- a.. .....t. , a..
tvnhoid fever does breathing sewer gas,
but from drinking water containing the grrSO uStaae
taken INTO tho aimentaIy canal. In case
t'''Ln ,D, ohs.ryatlou. several children