The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-11-11

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off the fowring and scattering of the
seed.
Cd BY educating the life to know
the causes of diseases. In complete
ly organized government laws should
be executed by officers whose well-con-
ceived mission is to enforce them. Cit
liens by other interests in civilization
have not time to form societies for doing
the work of salaried officers, and to de-
mand legislation on subjects of obvi-
Gus importance. Town boards should
not need an indignation meeting to
prompt them to efficient action. But
taking society us we find it, the people
must be educated to self-reform and
associated effort to secure the same in
others.
Diseases are the result of many
causes and Of effects insignificant in
themselves, but in the aggregate of
enough magnitude to destroy life.
Teach the need of exercise to destroy
ennui, and to remove the degenera-
tion of tissues and to give tone to the
bod Y 50 that it may not succumb to
acute diseases. Train the young in
the observance of principles, and
widen the range of henious sins so that
it will include offenses against the
laws of the body.
Instruct in ideas of liberty so that
we may not incur the criticism of
Herbert Spencer that the Americans
submit to impositions, and do not
growl enough against intrusions of
their rights. No one has any right
to arrange his premises so that air will
be poisoned and water polluted, or his
business so that pure food will be
adulterated and man will starve while
eating. Organize tract-distributors
who will discriminate, and with
tract on baptism, will give one on the
cleansing by water and the washing of
the body; and with exercise of the
spiritual faculties, activity of the body;
and on salvation from sin against the
Holy Ghost, one on sins against the
Temple of the Holy Ghost, whose tenn
pie We are. Have text books of
Hygiene III all public schools En-
gage teachers who can distribute
games according to the peculiar
physical characteristic of the
pupils; who will not allow overcrowd-
ing, and lily ventilated rooms.
(c) By giving the health officer
police power to enforce the laws.
Men may be chaste, temperate and
obedient to every law of health yet
may be poisoned by nuisances on
ne1ghbor's premises. Laws may be
on the books for the removal of
ofienses. While one is held back on
account of delicacy from preferring a
complaint against good but careless
neighbor, he is breathing in disease
and before the slow process thro com
pelling sanitary conditions, is ended,
many lives may be sacrificed, and an
endemic started.
Every state and city should have
its Board of Health and its Inspector,
and the people should support him by
such laws as are needed. The health
officer becomes an important factor in
the decrease of evils from intemper-
ance, and his strict enforcement Of the
penalty upon adulterations of food
would secure pure materials for the
building up of the body. Heavy fines
and forfeitures of licenses for selling
adulterated liquors, would secure to
the lowest as pure wine as the wealthy
use. Premises would be inspected and
communication between sinks and
wells would be stopped, and pure
water would be obtained. His power
would extend to tenement houses, and
the nests Of disease would be brok-
Ell up.
His authority would prevent the
crowding together of children in
schools and secure proper ventilation
and attention to all sanitary laws.
And this is doing to a certain extent,
with quarantine for imported animals,
inspection of public buildings, inspect
ors Of food, and National, State and
local boards Of health. These organ
izations are doing their utmost to Sc
cure the health of cities, and many
good laws are on the books. But to
be effective each individual must give
up part of his liberty for the public
good. Public sentiment must encour-
age. These bodies are the outgrowth
ot christianity and the church must
and stand in the front of
this truly righteous work.
\ reference to the work of these re-
formers will show the possibilities of
conquering all the diseases coming
from sin against the body. The raw
ages Of small pox were checked and
controlled by vaccination and isola-
ton of patients, thro the work of Jen-
ner. In 1893 his discovery was made
public, and in the following decade
the death rate from this disease fell
from % in every 1000 to s per 1000
in London The terrors
Of scurvy were destroyed by the work
Of Capt Cook. The Jail fever was
broken and prevented by Howard, by
the removal of filth and effecting good
ventilation. In Munich the home
IF typhus fever 4 per cent. died year
". With effective sanitation now
1900 lives are saved annually, with
gain of 100000 from lessening dis
ease. In England a century ago, the
leath rate was 80 per 1000 inhabit-
ants; it now is Is and is steadily de-
,reasing. In France the rate is %,