Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-01

| II they psr-ist to I'LL up the cup OF their
| abominstions. The APPEAL has often called
ia readers attention to The very subject The
| Rev. DR.. Cro,by so ably disousses, and it
now concludes with that genteman'e own
words: "No man should b. allowed to lord
it over the industries OF The land; no q an
should be allowed to hold sway over the
| highways OF the nation in an irresponsible
| sbsolutism. There must be limit to indi-
vidUal wealth If NE are 10 be preserved as a
republic
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THE BESEPITs OF SANITARY SCI.
! FACE.
Ii there is one question more than an.
| her in which all classes are deeply in. er.
e,ied it Is that OF health. Tue spring seas n
is always welcomed; but as the warmth Of
| the Gun iucreG-es, 80 do the fears of In. peo-
pie subject to epidsm cs. Upon the rigid
enforcement Of sanitary laws depends the
health OF all cities, especially those of the
| South. the cleaner city is kept the lower
the desth-rate will be, and every effort
| should be made to promote the general
health and 10 keep disease in check. Rome
had her squeducts furnishing pure water
aud she also built sewers, but there was
nothing ike the sanitary science Of the
present day. The plaques which dspoPU-
laed Russis, Rome ani England can now
be traced to the buildings, which were 50
constructed that breath Of fresh air was
an entire stranger. In England the people
had 10 pay a window tax, and so even the
light of heaven was excluded Dr.. J. II.
Raymond, the health commissioner of Brook.
lyn, n. Y, il his recent lecture before
the Long Island hospital students, demon.
straled the benefits of sanitary science. He
attributed the plague to filth and impure
| air-showed that the hocrs Of the house,
were generally made Of loan, streWn With
rushes, constantly pat on fresh, without re-
moving the old, which increased the filth
and frslly generated disease. In those
days the houses we're nothing but no b,ds
for growing disease. The remit was the
most ravsging peailences. The Black As
sizas, which depopulated Oxford in the year
1877, can BE- traced to filth, for every person
who visited the courtroom, with its filth
and wan; OF ventiIstion-ths judge, the sher-
if and 800 persons-died within forly-eight
hours. The sweating sickness, of 1922
was equally as fatal, and can be
traced to the want of sanitation.
DIR. Raymond asks, "What could be more
appalling than the black dsah of the iour-
teeulh century, which reappeared 10 cpl
demic form as che plague FIVE times in sev.
enty-two years; in one year (1665) carryiSg
off nearly 10000 persons, and in five yesrs,
$50 cOO?r So terrible was this disease that
one writer says: "The plaques of London do
commonly kill one fifth part of its inh abb
tants" We of the present day living at the
North eau have no idea OF such an epidemic
as visited London in the year 1865. D..
Hodges, who practiced in that city at the
time, has left a very graphic account OF the
plague as it appeared 10 that epidemic, and
the narrative of Dstoe depicting the scenes
of daily occurrence is full Of incident and
pathos. ali the infected house were closed
with a red cross. Written over the door
wac: lord have mercy On u.s." Dr..
Hodges tells us that in some houses
carcasFes lsy waiting for burial,
in Others persons 10 their last
agony. In the room might be he ard dying
groanr, n another the rawlings Of delirium.
no UTdsI, ase Ok SEA " spared. 1t was not
uncommon to see an inheritance pass sue
cessively TO three or four heirs in as many
days. Under wholesome laws, dictated by
sanitary science, Dr.. Raymond shows tb at in
Geneva, Switzerland, where the records Of
births and deaths have been preserved for
ceptures, that in the sixteenth century the
average period OF human life was little over
tweuly-one yssrs. Bat by careful SAINT ation
it has risen to forty years. Then more than
ore.fUurlh Of the children died in their e rst
year, now less than one-sixth. In the ak
tenth century only three per cent. lived to
see thsir lhree.scora- nd,;sn years; now eight
cen per cent. live beyond this age. AZ many
nav live to be seventy as then died at the
age of forty-three. In Liverpool, before
| proper sanitary measures were introduced,
| thirE eight persons in every thousand died
He then proceeds TO show how the mortality
in Engiand's Indian army has been reduced
froul sixty-niae in the thousand to twenty :;
how during 4 single decade more lives have
been saved in that srmy than formed the
entire British army at The battle Of Waterloo;
how in Croydon the desIh-rste has been re-
ducsd from twenty. five 10 sixteen; in Salis-
bury from forty to seventeen, and in Dover
from tweuty.six TO fourteen. They have no
plaques now in Europe as they had in other
days. The blight OF the black death fell
upon London 10 1908, aud destroyed nearly
half of the population in Marseilles in 1920.
Since that dread visitation in Southern
France it has NOT returned to Western Eu-
rope save 10 1915. when il crossed the thres-
bold OF Naples. La 1771 Moscow vas under
the cusae, and several times during the present
century has The plague passed over the Danube
10 led dance of death in Southern Russia
During The terrible winter Of 1S28-29, before
Diebitscb led sn army of invalids agross the
Balkan, and through sheer auaacity dictated
the pesce of Adrienople, The plague swept
Remnants until 2OOO villsges were infected
ard $1,000 Russian soldiers were lost in the
h, spitals. From May, 1928, to February,
1929, the SICK list comprised over 10000
names, and inssmuch as Won Moltke, the
historian OF the campaign, estimates that the
whole strength Of the army could not have
been over 900 men, every soldier, on the
average, wss twice in the hospital. As early
as May, 1929, the plague broke out on the
right bank of the Danube, ard before the
winter set in the victorious army was almost
VIII oily destroyed, for no, nj ore than 10000
men recrossed the Pruih, ard many Of these
were recruits. As sanitary science has adj
vsnced in every part of the world the death
rate has been diminis he'd, and il msy be ID at
science will become so pr feet as q pre-
venlive that more people will die in old age
than in thsir infancy.