Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-07-30
DRINK PURE WATER.
A FEW WORDS THAT SHOULD IN
TEREST EVERYBODY.
Communities Often the Result of
Impure Water Supplies.
Prom the Universal Benefactor.

Communities Often the Result of
Impure Water Supplies.
Prom the Universal Bensfactor.
The people of this city have been
suffering for some time with bad wa
ter, and the fact is familiar to us all
that cholera is ON the increase in Eur
ope. The time it takes to step from
the Eastern Continent to. our Western
shore is very short. We must not
think that three thousand one hun
dred miles is much of distance with
our modern facilities when sailing
from Southampton or Havre to New
York. It is mere fraction of time,
when considering the immense power
that shoves steamer from shore to
shore. Let US be vigilant and meet
the danger behind the ramparts of
perfect cleanliness. Let us not slum-
Der with dreams of safety when dan
ger is sure to overtake US, and here
we must state that no agent is more
prolific in weakening and disturbing
the gastro-intestinal system than foul,
filthy ,uater. There is no agent in the
whole universe that enters so largely
in the composition of men as water ;
eighty percent is required, while only
twenty percent is earthly matter. This
shows the Importance of having pure
water to preserve. health. We append
the following, clipped. from the Amer
ican Health Primer, as sustaining us
in our position
"Of the dangers of injury to health
from polluted wells, it is hardly posi-
BILE to say too much. In one cholera
season in London 900 deaths were
traced to the use of single street
pump. Typhoid fever has been re-
peatedly, indeed many times, known
to affect whole families who resorted
to we'll for common supply, while
others in the same neighborhood, u.s.
ing different water, were not attacked.
Worse yet, perhaps, seems to be the
subtlety with which organic poison
may be conveyed, by water, through
milk in dairymen's supplies. Several
times this has happened in London
and elsewhere in England. In one in.
stance, so far as appeared, the only
mode of contamination was by milk
pans at the dairy being washed in wa
ter from a stream into which leakage
had occurred from a neighborine
vault. At another time, several we'll
to-do families in London, one of them
that of a physician, were affected with
typhoid fever. 1t was found that they
were all supplied with milk by com
pany which furnished milk from sey
eral dairies. At last it was ascertain
ed that cases of fever occurred only
in those families to whom had beer
sent the milk of one particular dairy
and q local cause of contamination o.
its supply was also traced. What ex
quisite cleanliness Of all things is en-
joined by this experienced! Nothing
is more sensitive than milk and cream
to all impurity. Even the water which
COWS drink, when marshy and bad
has been known to make their mill
-unwholesome. Butter can be made
good only where the most scrupulou
sweetness, cleanliness, and freshness 0
everything is maintained. This is thu
chief secret of good butter making
and the moral of it may be extended
and applied by saying that perfec
cleanliness of water. food, air, and per
son is everywhere absolutely necessar,
to perfect health.