New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-05
CAR1NG FOE The HUMAN MACHINE.
LECTURE BY PROFESSOR CHANDLER.
THE BAD ARRANGEMENTS OF MOST HoUSES-THE
NEED OF PUBLIC PARKS.


NEED OF PUBLIC PARKS.
"Health in the Home was the sube of plain,
practical talk sanitary matters oil Importance III
everyday life, which given by Professor Charles
f. Chandler president of the Board OF Health,
last evening the fourth in the course Of monthly
lectures at the Seventh Avenue Chanel OF the ruth
Avenue Presbyterian Church. Professor chandler,
who was accompanied by DR.. Cornelius X. Agnew
and John Patton, was introduced by the pastor OF
the chapel and spoke in part as follows;
The human body n machine which assimiates food
the sum- and in which combustion ia constantly In pro.
gress the products OF which given OH IN the forms OF
sent the conditions running this machine for the long
est time and in the best way. Half The deaths
IS 600 people whose deaths were re-
ported in this city last year 10000 ought not to have
died The way prevent these deaths for every per
apply the best knowledge obtainable to the care
of his own machine No Board OF Health or City Gov
eminent can do away with sickness unless each one
carefully guards himself For every death there were
twenty eight cases OF serious sickness or cases
the human machine must have pure air II requires
oxygen must nave pure watfr wholesome o o sum
tagous diseases many OF which are within our own con
troll and IL must have rest and recreation
The atmosphere Is always contaminated with
dust containing minute germs or fungi which cause
fermentation and putrefacton. and it is now
tagicus diseases are caused b germs
the air is pure. except IN marsh places but III the city
have sometimes foul streets and cutters which are hot
bed for the development of these germs Bad odors
rarely disease except indirectly by making people
close their windows and in consequence
appetite of those IN feeble health In houses
have not enough air TO breathe for the human machine
needs an enormous amount daily. People are careless
their cellars where they store food and vegeta
blcs in winter from which fungi develop which spread
through the house. Not fifty cellars IN the
city have proper 1oorings, which should be
perfectly tight ana Of asphalt, which If the only safe
material 1ne ground In every large city is poisoned
with emanations from A special apparatus for
circulating these germs often exists in the furnace the
cold air box OF which seldom perfectly tight Then in
the upper rooms there Is danger In mis-
managed stoves, which when the daper in the pipe to
Then TO the danger from the plumbing it IA easy TO
build houses properly Every fixture connected with WITH
so D, pine S, n b run up tHroug Taf the ro a
and and i LETT open to avoid the danger of causing
a in the fixture pipes and thus eInptylng the
rush of water from above, each must be ventilated
BY an air pipe: There should c1u.I be o trap
inlet for fresh air to the before the house.
Unfortunately the city is so laid out that houses are
hundred feet deep This results IN many dark rooms,
and in tenement and apartment houses ia a great
evil but by the law recently passed every room III such
houses must have windows opening out OF doors
consider that the dangers pan and Il. bad 6aG
outside is most important, especially for children They
Should be taken every suitable day for eheIcse IN tee
ought oafInSnOt to be park Sii6 Within easy reach
city The propertyowners ought to feel interest enough
to lake active steps matter. Some trying
down here Large parks are not unnecessary, but a
park the size Of block would be infinitely bene-
f as E Square live 100000 Or 100000 people
with no time to go up TO Central Park and with 10
breathing places among their tenement houses, where
there ought to be several small parks Even trips ON
The organizations for taking children into the
country for day or week have done most beneficial
work
IL Is not necessary dwell the water OF the city
because il is 50 good and knew it to hurt any
body However, water should not be used that has
stood night in lead pipes or comes from leadlncd
tanks mother i'll fifty knows how TO feed ner emil
for the first three years. and on this subject
need general education Avoid patent medicines
and don't continually dosing with unknown cureals.
There is not remedy among the patent medicines
and advise when necessary, but quacks lake some
prescription useful In one disease ana advertise II
10 cure everything. Particular attention should be
given obtaining plenty OF light IN selecting house or
rooms. Special Diseases consumption aud other pull
troubles which begin with colds. can be guarded
against by prudence. Dysenteric diseases,
which rife the latter part OF July and the
first OF August, and prevail most among cnnuIen uls
ing from colds filth dirty streets and cellars, have al
reduced by the visits ana advice OF corps
fifty bysicans, VINO last year made 10000 yisis
There nearly 900 OF contagious diseases
here last year. most OF which could be prevented by
strcness the part Of each family III sOlatlng the pa
We should have hospitals FOL such cases III the
CITY, but there is ignorant opposition, although
hospitals Now cases OF contagious diseases
remain in tenement houses without isolation. Smallpox
is The be feared because we can guard against It.
There nave been 100000 people vaccinated by
Instance OF q person injured by II. There
has a great Improvement already in infant NOR
tally statistics show fail fron % to 40 out OF 100
since 1867 which shows that 1900 more children would
last had the rate OF mortality OF 1867
tnued, and in addition there would hayo been 10000
more cases of slcAlees