Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-01-31
CHOLERA.
Facts which Should be fOld to
Every Person in Lafay.
cite County.
HOW THE DANGER OF CHOLERA MAY
49, BE REMOVED.
DRINK ONLY ABSOLUTELY
PU RE WATER AND F)L-
LOW RI 1RUI IE3oF
CLEANLINESS.
IF You are q Roussh oldsr See tina
There is No Contamination Of .
Your Drinking Water.
BURN CONTaMsNATED BEDDING
AND CLOT'sING IND USE
- iDISlNEECr rANTs


:- "a: ,DISlNEEC rANTs
And AboveAll Give the A ut no rifles
Your Toral support
In Their Efforts to Take all Necessary
Sanitary Measures. --
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.... From the St.Louis Republican, =,
At a meeting of the commercial club
last Saturday evening the committee,
consisting of DR.. j. NJ. Leele, chair
man, and Messrs. Silas Bent, j: e.
Chapman and Robert Moore, appointed
to consider and report upon the sa ii
tary condition of st. Louis with special
reference to Asiatic cholera, reported
through its chairman as follows: 80"
"Mr. President and gentlemen of the
commercial club: Your committee,
appointed to report on the sanitary
condition of the city, with special ref
erence to Asiatic cholera. have decided
to lay before You two papers. One,
prepared with the concurrence of Drs.
j. B. johnson, Thomas y Reilly, P. G.
r ,binson and Guslave Baumgarten,
facts, and conclusions based upon those
facts, as would, if laid before the peO-
pie of st. Louis, convince them that
they ought, with the least possible de-
lay, to adopt and enforce such meas
ures as will surely prevent the use of
water for drinking and in the prepar-
a. ion of food that is poisoned by human
excrement and other disease producing
filth; and such other measures as will
prevent the storing of human excre-
ment in cess-pools and privy vaults ad-
jacent in dwellings.
"The other, prepared by Mr.. Robert
Moore, though having the same general
purf ose, gives somewhat more i'll de-.
tail the facts i'll regard to the propaga-
ton of cholera by drinking-water."
DIR. LEETE's PAPER. -..
The first paper, which was prepared
by DR.. James NJ. Leete and treats of
"The Sanitary Condition of St. Louis,
with Special Reference to Asiatic Chol-
era," reads as follows:
"The people of st. Louis should re-
member that whenever Asiatic cholera
has prevailed in Europe, as it has dur
ing several months just past, it has not
failed to reach this country and spread
through it. This was proven in 1882,
again i'll lS49, again In 1854, and for the
fourth timein 1866. Judging from ex-
perience, then, cholera will certain Y
make its appearance in this city in the
near fnture. 1t will be brought to US,
as it has been heretofore, hy immi-
grants and travellers, and i'm defiance
of any quarantine regulat lions tina have
been or can be enforced. THIS uisease
| is communicated indirectly by one per-
/ son to another. The poison or germ
4 that causes cholera is contained i'll the
discharges from the stomach aud bow
els.
| "In city like ours this most fatal
disease is spread chiefly by means ol
privy vaults and tile water of wells an.
cisterns. Cholera discharges are c,tsl
into privy vaults and by percolatioi
the wafer of wells and cisterns receive.
the cholera germ. To drink water de-
u disease that generally destroys halt
tacks.
1.-The people of St. Louis are called
upon TO decide whether ASiatic chol
cru shall again become IL widely spr,at
and destructive epidemic in tneir cit,
or not. Surely they have not torg' ltol
The cholera OF 1867. II they desire
repet tiOm ut that wears bitter expert
elice they should do nothing until j
shall be TOO late To Il" anything as i
Oug. t 10 bc done. The stubborn pursuit o
such Il policy, by those i'll auIinrit. II
ihis city, When Asiatic c"ol-ra threat
eded US i'll 1866, cost St. Louis 3.52
lives anu ali almost c,mpete 0epriv.l
tion OF trade during nearly thre
mouths. Cities that properly value,
pure water and cleanliness, and whos
preparations in anticipation OF choler
We're made in accordance with the bes
that Was known i'll respect OF cuntroll
ing the diseases, suffered vastly less
Brooklyn, N. Y, with d much large
population than ST. Louis, lost onl
5l7 by cholera in 1866. New Yur
city, with q popu alion nearly tuu
times as large as that OF st. Louis, los
only l,16S by cholera in 1866 u Us
cow, Scotland, with population Z
425 900, lost only Is by cholera in 1866
The city water used in Brooklyn all
New York city was good, aud The au
lhorities, taking time by the toreloch
destroyed or removed accumulate
filth that would most notably favor tn
Ispread of cholera, and prevented as ia
as possible the use of water from tn
!. small number OF wells and cisterns i
!, those cities. Glasgow. Scotland, la
pure water from Loeb katrine for tn
g.. use of all her people in 1866 and 10.
), uy CHI 'iera only 6S out of Il populato
of 425, 900, while in 1854, having col
siderably smaller population, who's
q conditions of life were about the sam
, as in 1866, except that their drinkin
!, water was notoriously impure, bein
:. polluted with excremental and seway
tiIth, she lost 1896 by cholera; and i
O lS49, having still smaller population
: and the same foul drinking water, sh
p lost 3.772 by cholera. In London,
q lS49, the greatest suffering from chol
era was along the Wandsworlh road
4 On the eastern side of this road the a
:, tack was of such virulence that in
= short time, there was not a house
which there was not ut least one dea
of cholera; and IN some houses thel
n was not one person. living. and the de;i
II were actually left so bury their deat
r. Those living on the opposite side OF IL
q road suffered from cholera scarcely ,
# all. This fact lead people to think tn;
some local cause had mnch to do wit
/ the disease. Upon investigation, the
. found that the houses OIL the two sid'
=, of the road were supplied with war'
by two different water companies: al
;, they began to blame the wafer. Pusl
Il ing their investigations further the
20 found on the eastern 81 e, where ii
- chO era had destroyed go mamv live
" that the pipes that shou d have COZ
/, veyed wafer solely Tor the cleansing
Ia closets, allowed human eXcrcmcnt al
, other filth to regurgitate ami pui>C
:. the water that they constantly used +,
i, drinking and other domestic purpose
i, In this touling OF water with huma
l.. excrement the cholera on the ea>tel
i >ide of the road had its origin. II
same causes not operating Oh The we
tern side of the road, the people wi
lived on that side suffered from chole
scarcely at all.
"During the epidemic of cholera
ms London in lS53-56. Il district containil
h. n S54 houses aid IL population OF 10,
, 9U6 that were supplied with whn
lscme water, lost cuIy GIL bv cholel