The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-14

form at asbestos cake and celluloid an
gel O IN such a way that if the orig
NAL cost of the groceries and the work
We're not considered, the clear profit
was thirteen dollars, after the hall rent
was paid. And why should the first
cost OF the groceries be reckoned when
we stop TO think that they were inyol-
UNFAIRLY furnished by the depraved
husband and father.
l must add also that in the above es-
innate Doctors bills ard funeral ex-
penses are not reckoned.
Facts for the People Regarding Cholera.
The state board of health of Califor-
MIA has issued the following bulletin,
which contains some good advice.
cholera upon these shores Is a for
eigner, and has never yet visited us,
except by importation, and then only
alter ample warning. Last year the
warning came to us from France and
Italy, this year it comes from Spain
and the shores of the Mediterranean.
How soon it may reach New York or
other seaports upon the Atlantic bord-
er Is a question of time. 1t is sure to
come along the highway of travel, and
one landed on our shores will make
its way cross the continent quite
speedily. Had the question of ouaran.
tine, efficiently eNerc sed, been enter
tanned by the last legislature. and pro.
visions made for its maintenance. we
believe we could have kept cholera.
yellow fever, and smallpox out of Cal
ifornia. The highway is Low open.
and we must expect to reap the fruits
OF Grim nal negligence, and stupidity
of our lawmakers.
What can we do in the way of pre-
yention locally? Much may be done
If the officers of health. or the prop
erly constituted authorities do their
duty. Cholera, as was said before, is
a ~preventable diease; its habitat is
among a crowd; it revels in filth and
decomposing organism, but failing to
md suitable conditions for its growth
and maintenance, it dies out. Conse.
quently, the very first thing to be done
Is for each individual to see that his
house, clubhouse. and yard is put in
| good sanitary cond. ton. Do not wait
for any health officer, see to it. YOUR
self. Have your drains cleaned out
and flushed with water; your privy or
cess-pool empted and disinfected i'm
mediately. See that your cellar is
is cleared of all decaying substances,
have it thoroughly whitewashed, and
all filth, rags, ETC., burned. If you
have q well, see that the water thereof
H not contaminated by drainage from
the house or outhouses. If YOU have
the slightest suspicion that it is. boil
the water before using, or, better still,
shut up that well and dig another
away from all such contamination. If
you use river water. VIII CHI is always
more or less polluted. see that it is
boiled before drinking it, and you will
save your health for the trouble.
Avoid crowding in sleeping rooms.
See that each room is properly venti-
lated, nothing being SO conducive to
d sease, as an over-crowded and ILL
ventilated apartment. While there is
danger OF cholera, or, indeed, any
epidemic disease, developing in your
midst. it is an act of prudence to avoid
excessive fatigue from any source, as
the system, when tired or exhausted. is
much more liable to infection and less
able to resist it than in other con-
ditsons.
Temperance in all things should be
enloined, and especially in alcoholic
beverages, as it is found by experience
that the incorporate, or those addicted
to drinking Intoxicating fluids habit
ually, are the first to die in an epidem-
ic of cholera.
Disinfection is the destruction of
poison of infectious or contagious dis
ease. Deodorizers, or substances
which destroy smells are not neces-
sarily disinfectants. and do not neces-
sarily have odor. Distinction cannot
compensate for want of cleanliness or
of ventilation.
DISINFECTANTs TO BE EMPLOYED.
Roll Sulphur (brimstope), for fumi-
CATION; this is a cheap and efficient
substance for fumigating rooms; it is
pos. lively destructive to disease germs,
when efficiently used,
solved in the proportion of one and a
half pound to the gallon of water. is a
cheap and reliable deodoriZer and an
tiseptic for privies, cespools, sewers.etc.
SnlphnA of Zinc, in the proportion
of four ounce of sulphate and two
ounces of salt 10 the gallon of water,
is efficient and atmless for clothing,
bed-linen, blankets. etc. 1t should be
used boiling hot, and the art Giles to be
d~isinfected plunged into it and thor
oughly boiled.
Co2rosire SubiiHaate, in the proper
ton of a quarter of an ounce to the
gallon. is an unsurpassed germicide
and disinfectant, but has the disadvan-
tage of being excessively poisonous
and therefore dangerous for general
use.
Carbohc Acid is of uncertain
strength, is expensive, and experience
has shown that it must be employed in
comparatively large quantities to be Of
any use. 1t is also liable, by its strong
odor, 10 give a false sense of security"
One Thing that She Forgot.
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