Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03
MALARIA.
It's Cause and q Description OF It's Abiding
Places.

occurs in hot temperatures and near
swamps and marshes, near shallow
and muddy ponds. Heat and water
are the principal forces that induce
this annoying and often severe malady.
Like nearly all other diseases, it comes
in various degrees of severity, depend
ing upon the activity and abundance
of the causes and the susceptibility of
those who are exposed to oitsinfuences.
Heat and water induce vegetal and
animal decay. The process of decay
generates certain germs, that are SO
light as to be easily waited long dis
tances on the air.
AS warm seasons lengthen and high
temperature strengthens, the malaria
/ becomes more and more severe and
fatal. Malaria generated in marshes
covered with a mixture of salt and
fresh water, is often unusually severe.
Malaria is usually limited to low
grounds. Heat and moisture are the
| ordinary causes of malaria. When
| once generated it spreads slowly
through the air, or by it is waited to
adjacent lands, unless it's course is
! checked by forests, walls and hills.
Malaria may travel long distances by
water, and spread over localities that
otherwise would be healthy. Fortu-
nately, however, the extension of these
| germs is not always present. They
sink to the surface of the earth as the
| shades of night come on, but rise again
in the late morning hours. Those who
reside in malarial districts are less apt
| to suffer, when the sun and air has
lifted them from the earth.
The severity and fatality of malaria1
fever depends upon the heat, moisture
and the amount of vegetal decay oc-
curing in company. And so it hap
| pens that it is more mild in moderate
temperatures, and more severe and
pernicious in high. Malarious maladies
may be checked, or cured, if those
affected by them move to some more
genial climate. Even if cured, the suf-
ferer may be revisited by the disease
| so long as he remains under the influ-
ence of the cause. He can not fully
| regain his former strength of mind and
body, but these will gradually lessen
until he can no longer live. It may not
quickly and greatly impair health, but
may often induce other maladies that
ultimately weaken the system and unfit
it to meet and repel maladies. Chill
| ldren and adults should always be kept
well and vigorous, that they gnay be-
able to repel the many evil influences
to which they are exposed. A poor
supply and poor kind of food will
diminish this power of resistance to
exhausting influences.
These facts indicate what those
should do who live in ma1arial districts,
and wish to resist influences so disas<
trous TO health and life. With all the
efforts to resist these influences, the
disease may come and art can not en-
tirely remove its severity, but may
greatly mitigate it. One means of do
ing so is to largely diminish the amount
of moisture in the soil on which thev
live. Dwellings should be placed on
high and well drained lands. The
drains should be so deep as to re-
move moisture from the subsoil.
Drainage contributes not only to early
and remunerative crops, but to health
and comfort. Houses should be
SO placed that the prevailing
winds may not drive malarial infn-
ences into them, or into their Vi
cinity. The more distant they are
from malarial sources of disease, the
surer they are to be free from this
source Of disease and suffering. Avoid,
then, slowly moving and muddy rivers,
whose shores are widely covered with
watery and decomposing vegetable and
animal materials. If houses must be
built in malarial localities, encircle
them with growing trees that naturally
absorb large quantities of moisture,
and so remove one cause of generating,
malaria. The location of a dwelling,
then, should be well drained. It should
be encircled, but not densely shaded,
by rank growing plants or trees. Even
in the temperate zones we perceive bad
odors rising from cesspools and sewers
in the early morning and late evening
hours.
Those, then, who reside in malarial
districts should guard against exposures
to malaria whilst the sunny rays are
absent. Experience shows that very
little, if any. dangeris incurred, if ex-
posed during the warm parts of the
day. AS malaria is heavier than air il
cfeeps upon the surface and rises as the
expanded air lifts it up. And we find
it safer in malarious districts to enter
the outer air at midday than in the
early morning hours. And then again
as malaria sinks in the evening and
keeps near the surface of the earth, il
rarely is found above four feet above
the surface. We may inhale it if WE
sleep near the level of the ground. Up
per rooms are always safer, freer from
malaria than the lower ones. Our
readers must see the use of keeping the
house warm and dry, and the adjacent
| lands free from NaoaVinO m at
In many localities in our prairie lands
the water used for drinking is impure,
especially when it is drawn from wells
that ere near cesspools and sewers and
other collections of dirt and filth. H
such water must be drank, let it be wen
boiled so as to remove all impurities
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