The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-01-10
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.trHr HERALD:

the 6UAfO-
~.o importance OF soft, pure water
-, community or individual caI
70 az, he overstated. 1t is probabl.
nalu a important in some respects thai
NOR mo so lids Of food. Certainly than ill
'hs go s.sd food, since it permeates every
PsIt q the human system even thu
palsv n-ivate and all impurities being
mos sna division in solution as to bt
Of q .d Hat active on living tissues
imine so tine-so have been informed
Az onat, ia at the Vegas Spring pastured
theseasack on the alkai ranges there,
then 3 NJ drank the alkaline waters OF
ana m nr;ngs aud when killed for food,
me s the yiscera, stomach. liver, ETC.,
al ~ foIInd SO decayed as to be too ten
T ele handle. Examples of this kind
deL Ell y 10 Indefinitely multiplied. All OF
eguit ore called hard waters are
VIVA aood or healthy for domestic uses,
n no. Eorge ouantity of lime held in solu-
I !N 90 S9redisposing to diseases of the
uon h bowels, liver. kidneys and l
don't doubt but that many eases Of that
intractable complaint, Brights alsease
nf the kidneys; are o"Aii6 "
u ~ have often thought thatthe death
a ~ The lamented late 0rson Pratt origi-
TOD =. thus as well as many others,
f h% the nse Of hard water. A near re
I Il1n of mine. nearly lost his life thus,
j s.'r;,,S - Journey of only $50 miles. 1t
uua u,TS The most skillful care to save
I'm and he finally died OF diabetes,
nrineinalIy from this cause, VIZ. {: hard
water, l think. ,
ID N drinking rain water from
eSan0 c;sterns. like the taste
S ~ e. oven better than that of well water,
I'd oftpr q little using from moderately
d am | cisterns is found sufficiently cool
a aUa RnaIatabIefor quenching thirst, more
60 than colder water.
The most important and interesting
reason. however, in favor OF the use OF
cIond water, is found in its general
beaIthfulness. Rain water, is both
restorer and preserTer of health, and
This most important fact will not be
overlooked by the wise and thoughtful
in both city and country.
1t is a well established fact among
medical men that the stomach and
bowels are less 10th to dlsarrangment
and diseases, and epidemics under the
uniform uses of rain than of
hard water, and this is con-
firmed by numerous scientific
and medical reports. In the cholera
season of 1919 I resided in St Louis, and
will remember the greatest fatality was
in low and badly watered portions of
that city, and it is a well-known fact,
that when the populations of the cities
along the Mississippi river, live on high
bluffs away from that river where wells |
are almost impossible, and eisterns must
be resorted to, they enjoy remarkable |
exemption from cholera and kindred |
diseases.
A French commissioner of health, |
writing on this subject, remarks as fol-
lows:
1t has been clearly ascertained, both |
in Paris and elsewhere, that rain water |
is prophylactic antidote to cholera,
and that the disease was not epidemic |
IN any city where rain water is used for |
domestic purposes.
He goes on TO earnestly recommend |
the general use OF rain water, under all |
circumstances where possible.
DR.. Hobbs, of Memphis. reports as |
follows: "BY the exclusive use of els !
tern water cholera will speedily disap- |
pear This is known from both analysis |
and experiences of over twenty years. /
and he earnestly recommends its use
Tor all personal purposes.
John Lee, Of Cincinnati, writes as fol-
lows: ut is verified fact which will
stand the strictest investigation that the
exclusive use of rain water for all pur-
poses of drinking, cooking and bathing,
instead OF well or hard water,
IS sure preventive OF cholera and
bowel complaints, and that no city
supplied exclusively with rain water,
cholera,
from all this teStimony-and it could
De greatly extended-that the exclusive
use OF rain water is a preventive of
cholera and is highly conducive to
health, though plenty of other water
Is ready at hand for domestic use. still
fro Lae long run. the pecuniary saving
OF q cistern.
:; IN view OF the probability of vista
o uen Of cholera the coming season, and
v,a,; ,ong' on the great highway of the
- loiie., would 1t not be good sound
~ ~ LOT all to take immediate action,
ia oS i5t as possible, on these things. /
III lot refer to the proper care to keep
an naler clSternS clean, since all viii
Its necessity.
Ill ne darkness and cold of cisterns
I gai pIteveht much, If not all miasmatic
aIso when alllcn Is the cause of cholera and
M LII. iIullerable other forms of disease
s aHI WIN only ordinary care the water
a WI. Keep good and sweet from season 70 70
cInsiv .Le I1regonlg suggestion it is con-
0 ;;asi'eiy shown that the absence nj nm
;;tans water or springs is no valid oh
bomo on VI VI hlndrance to making pleasant I
-o.nes on our dry lands. and indead {
~. !ocallty suitable for homes on the
;fSiltIary' We think it is evident thar !
o,,s apparent distribution of water is in
=, me 1.. respects blessing, as it indu ces
III uIiyeS many people to adopt that j
,so 'u 4. greatly to their advantage the
ron, VI Gioud water, rather than that
,itia. me earth, which has become
nd III ~ impurities from its surface,
hs s si,e olsorptIon of deleterious earths
JCSo oIt on Its passage through it.
lotnn1.aalilIy on many of these extensive !
ill., o'auSi as Tor instance those of Kavs-
,b ,s section and Salt Lake valley
a Jere dry farming is largely in use. the
I,uotl9n OF good and pleasant sites for !
Ines aessteads where no water can be oh
a a,re! from the earth, the uses of els
vo-S Is both certain and a blessing. in
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