Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-03-29
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Franklin, Ind, village Of 12G Inhabitants,
80 are destitute and Is sick. There were
two deaths from pneumonia. In Union
town, KY, town of, 1880 inhabitants,
nearly everybody has suffered. Here there
are so destitute persons. In Shawnee Town
1900 persons are destitute, 125. are sick and
"a hapa died .of pnehmonia and othefSdis-
eases. Dysentery is almost epidemic.
About one hundred and twenty-five houses
were swept away or damaged. At least 7OG
persons are exposed to disease at Caseyville,
Ill. Nosrelief. had been furnished. There
were fOrty-fve cases Of sickness, mostly ty-
phoid fever. One hundred houses had been
under water and half Of them were ruined.
Roseclair, ILL.,, had been entirely covered by
water. The committee found family of
ten persons, the father and mother sick,
living in the engine room of an old saw MILL
New Liberty, ILL.,, had been entirely sub
merged and sickness to an alarming extent
prevailed. This information is obtained
from reputable physicians and agents of the
Board of Trade Relief Committee of this city
who were sent to distribute supplies.
CLEANLINESs.-Pre is the better
way of dealing with malignant diseases.
The common ailments of childhood can not
always be prevented but when they assume
the malignant forms, it Shows a violation
of natures laws, either in lack of cleanli-
ness, imperfect ventilation or want of eXer-
else. 1t is significant fact that the dis
eases from blood-poisoning are more preva-
lent in winter, when the unfavorable con-
ditions are most prevalent. I believe tits
fact that a great many people are more
uncleanly in winter than in summer. In
warm weather frequent changes of gar
ments, especially near the skin, and fire.
quent ablutions, are everywhere regarded
as necessary to respectability. In winter
there is apparently little perspiration from
the skin, and both bathing and changes of
garments are less frequent. Yet it is in
winter that people eat most heartily and OF
highly carbOnaceous foOd-not all of which,
in close unventilated rooms, is consumed
in maintaining animal heat. If we take
garment worn next the skin in winter for
even few days by a sedentary person, and
put it away in an air-tight box for week,
we shall find that however clean it may
have seemed, it is badly in need of washing.
Yet it is not infrequent for some. people to
| wear garments next to the skin in winter,
one, or even two or more weeks, without
changing. All the evil odors developed in
| the cold air-tight box are intensified in the
soiled garment kept warm by animal heat,
but with the difference that in stheg slater
case the excretions from the skin are reab-
sorbed into the system, to reappear in mallg-
nant blood poisoning disease. That there
| is no sensible perspiration is all the greater
reason for frequent bathing and rubbing OF
the skin to keep the pores open. People
who work so as to cause profuse perspiration
| in winter may violate other laws of health
may even appear to be uncleanly, and yet
suffer less than those who lead sedentary
life. The violent exercise which causes
perspiration in the coolest weather, not
only opens the pores, but SO floods them as
to. carry off much offensive matter that
would otherwise be retained. 1t is almost
true that the less hard work done out-of-
doors, the greater the need for frequent
changes of clothing next the skin and thor
ough opening of the pores in some way.
No matter how little call man may have
to work, he cannot afford for health's sake
to forego so much of exercise at least once
a week as will thoroughly open the pores
of his skin by profuse perspiration. If
more attention were paid to these physio-
logical facts, the cases of malignant disease
resulting from blood poisoning would be
much, less frequent than they e.-W.J.
r., nasC Country Gentleman. q , ~