Morning journal and courier., 1885-04-22
HEROIC DEED.
Surprising Even the Deeds of Prosess
of Everyday Life.

Surprising Even the Deeds of Provess
of Everyday Life.
A few months ago the country was thrilled
with the account of girl who, at the risk of
her own life, when the whirling food of the
swollen rivers were wrestling great bridges
from their foundations, skipped along the
ties of western railway, lantern in hand,
and saved train from certain destruction.
The State of Iowa awarded her suitable
medal for her bravery. In this instance it
was child who saved the lives of many
adults, but, as rule, the life of the child in
in the hands of older persons.
In November, 1888, little eight-year-old
son, of Danish parents was suffering with diph-
liberia. The attack was not severe, but he
did not seem to rally after the throat ap-
peared perfectly we'll Nausea, headache
and low fever succeeded the soar throat, and
two or three days afterwards his limbs began
to swell mysteriously. The skin became
very dry, vomiting was frequent, nose bleed
persistent, and nothing would stay in his
stomach. cit was evident to our minds, %
says Mrs. Thomas Schmidt, wife of the vice
consul of Denmark, residing in netherwood,
N. j., ''that some mysterious maltdy was
working ruin in his system. Our physician
said he had the terrible Bright's disease
To our suggestion that certsin preparation
be tried, he made no objection. We gave
him six doses day, two teaspoonfuls at q
dose, in sweetened water. It remained upon
his stomach, and within week there was
marked improvement. The bowels became
regular without the use of cathartics, and
nausea diminished; in three weeks there was
a subsistence of the dropsy, and by the mid
die of May the limbs were perfectly normal.
He had good appetite, and could take three
pints of milk daily. By the first of May he
yyoa nv, fho7ub he had aTart siY months
in bed, he did not feel particularly weak. In
June he was out, feeling perfectly well, and
in July he weighed eighty pounds more than
he did before he was taken sick. To-day
there is only slight unfavorable condition
in his system, and the physicians say we
have every reason to believe the child will
be perfectly we'll"
Mrs. Schmidt is certainly to be congratu-
lated on the good results which followed the
use of Warmers Safe Cure, and she says:
stWe feel bound to make this truly wonder
full result known, and are perfectly willing
to have this letter published" Gratifying as
is the result wrought, it is by no means
singular, for thousands of children, who
seemed weak and puny, have had their en-
tire nature changed and their future assured
by a prompt use of the same preparation.
Such disorders are transmitted by inherit
ance, or arise from children's epidemic dis
eases, the evil effects of which often prove
health of many children is that their kidneys
and liver are not performing their natural
work.
1t was brave feat of the brave girl who
crossed the swollen stream on the bridge to
save the lives of the passengers; but it was
a drawer deed, and one worthy of wider
recognition, which, seeing the perils awaiting
childhood, free from prejudice, with pur-
pose only to save by any effective means,
preserves to us the lives our children.
AGAINST CHOLERA.
The Medical NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to
the MayOr-Recomnaend
cal Precautionary Measures Against
the ScOurge.
The New Haven Medical association has
presented the following address to His Honor
Mayor Holcomb regarding the cholera ques-
ton.
A Memorial to His Honor George F. Hol-
comb, Mayor of the City of New Haven.
The New Haven Medical association,
knowing the city to be in danger of pesti-
lence during the coming summer, believes it
a duty devolving upon the profession to
warn the citizens and especially the city
government to take immediate, energetic
and united action to avert the calamity that
threatens. The surface and underground
conditions of back yards, well as of count
less buildings in this city, are such
as to cause a terrible epidemic, if
cholera should once settle upon
US. People residing in no1ious districts be-
come insensible to odors and sights the most
depressing and villainous. Acclimated
though they be to their surroundings they
rapidly fall victims to new epidemic of in
testinal disease and their abodes form haunts
for the scourge always ready to break forth
anew and invade hitherto wholesome and
clearly districts.
These two facts show that the common
safety depends upon general freedom from
conditions which are disease feeders and that
jewellers in given district become obhvious
to its condition; both demand intelligent and
active efforts on the part of these in authori-
ty to fortify against the impending evil.
We therefore advise and solicit you to
take immediate and extraordinary action
against matters that may compicate gen.
eral outbreak of Asiatic cholera.
Prevention includes not only suitable diet,
drink and cleanliness, but the rigid expung
ing of all that pabulum of disease, potent
Or concealed filth, recent or of long standing.
A most important measure TO be I'M
and one which includes in itself
many others, is that a more thorough
system of inspection be Immediately insti-
-uted and that the condemnation and re-
moval of unhealthy or suspected conditions
follow at once Not only must privy vaults
oOOAAoAAONA
possible, and sewer connections made on
severed streets, but there must be vigorous |
of house plumbing and wells,
likewise of tenement houses too often foul |
and overcrowded. /
We strenuously urge you to prevent the |
digging up and dumping of rubbish or refuse !
materials within the city limits in sunken |
OTIS or yards and to defer all extended exca-
7ations. such as will be necessary to con-
truct the proposed boulevard sewer. The |
lpheaving of a. large mass of earth during |
,holera times is almost uniformly attended |
" fierce epidemic in the region round
bout Let enterprise be directed for the /
ime rather to the abolition of all manner of
18th and to the dissemination of sanitary
among the people.
Let there be printed and circulated to ev-
nv house plain and authoritative instruc-
ions and advice in regard to diet, water,
buttons and the disposal of excrements, as
yell as upon the use of disinfectants. We
'elieve this to be universal necessity, for
ften the homes of the wealthy and well-to-
10 are in unsanitary condition as the
bodies of the poor. A drain with a faulty
lope retaining part of the effiuvia, to de-
ompose and exhale noxious vapors through
sprung pipe joint or a tubular ven
ilator at the housetop, may be as
ruly indus of disease and more treacher-
us than the less concealed carrion heaps in
he apparently more neglected parts. The
nost aristocratic grounds are. honeycombed
y cesspools, old and new, always contami-
ating the good ground. In sandy soils,
Ike New Haven, there is an underground
urrent of air accompanying and intermin-
ling with the wind above the surface. In
warm weather this ground air is most fer
lie culture field for disease germs of the
arious intestinal disorders. So that, AS
tatistics in other countries show, New |
haven cannot rely upon her sandy soil fol-
immunity from pestilence.
Finally the irregular distribution in this
ity brings the rear of the most carefully
ppointed estates in juxtaposition to the
most unsanitary conditions found in neigh
,ering establishments Thus we see no one
an have exemption from the deleterious in
luences save in a general and well organized
ystenI, applicable to all and sustained by an
authority which all must respect.