The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-09-04

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That our whole experience in In
dia, where is cholera never Ii
absent, tends 10 prove-nay, actual
| iy does prove-that cholera is
not communicable from person to
person.
That the disease cannot be as
cribed to somebody else" that is,
that the sick do not manufacture a
especial poison" which causes the
disease.
That cholerAis local disease
an epidemic affecting location, and
there are depending on pollution of
earth, air, and water and buildings.
That the isolation OF the sick can
not stop the disease, nor quarantine,
nor cordons, nor the like. These,
indeed, may tend fatally to aggra-
vate the disease, directly and InnI
rectly, by turning away our atten
tion from the only measure which
can stop it
That the only preventative is to
put the earth, air, and water and
building into a healthy state by
scavenglng, limewashing, and every
kind of sanitary work, and if chole-
ra does come to move the people
from the places where the disease
has broken and then to cleanse.
Persons about cholera patients do
not "catch" the disease from the
sick any more than cases of poison
ing ''infect" others. If number
of persons have been poisoned, say
by arsenic put by mistake into food,
it is because they have taken
'it,' the mysterious influence" of
one another.
In looking sadly at Egypt
Egypt, where cholera did not begin
anywhere along the route from
India to Europe, but at Damietta,
where no ship and no passenger
ever stops, and where the dreadful
insanitary condition ofthe place ac-
counts tor any outbreak of cholera
in sorrowfully looking at Egypt
and at Europe now, one might al
most say that it is this doctrine of
special poison emanating from
the sick, and which it is thought
can be carried in package, that
has (mentally) poisoned" us.
People will soon believe that you
can take the cholera by taking a
railroad ticket. They speak as ifl
the only reason against enforcing
quarantine were, not that it is
impossible to enforce quarantine.
"If only we could" they say, ''all |
would be we'll"
Vigorously enforce sanitary
measures, but with judgmene, e. G.,
scavenge, scavenge, ,scavenge; wash,
cleanse. and limewash; remove all |
putrid human refuse from privies |
and cesspits and cesspools and |
dust bins; look TO stables and COW
sheds, and pigs,ies; look to common
lodging houses and crowded places,
dirty houses and yards. ''Set your
mouse in order" in all ways santa
ny and hygienic, according to the
conditions of the place and "all will
be WE'LL
l heg to send you the best thing
that has been written upon the sub
ject-where also what can be said
about quarantine is fully stated in
the best manner-the lecture of DR..
Cunningham, sanitary. commission
er with the government OF India, on
the Sanitary Lessons of Indian
at the beginning of the
Times, which l inclose.
The real danger to be feared is in
some body else and not oar
own selves for such an epidemic Wis
tation. As a matter of fact, if the
disease attacks our neighbors we
are already liable to 1t.
To trust for protection to stopping
Intercourse would be just as l
ational as to try sweep back an in '
coming food instead of getting out
If its way.
With the most earnest wish that {
America as well as England, may '
set her house in order," and so de- S
y cholera and turn its appearance t
lsewhere into blessing, pray be- 8
Ieve me,
Ever her and your faithful SER '
ant, FLORENCE NINGHTIKGALE