The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-16

parent m the csi~e II sewerage. AMI the
purely Theoretical man viii md that. IN
The hands 81 such a. he. theory i 4
boomerang tEat hits the. thruwtr a say-
az thumi. NHre than one man VIII
has been graduated frlm a technica.
school lra- found thI, % he 81
IL - said that NJ clnIIut all nj a Sy>-
tenn al s'.wsTa.,e-that We 10 not need IT,
! his - manIfe,tiy untrue. a. anyone can
SO. We An afford the ,.NIenSe. and
We isl need AMI must have "A correct sys-
TEN ot sewerage.
sanitary improvements, always ntr,--
state slne IuCOny rnlen.sT, which seem
u the ignorant 10 h.. more serious than
th" iutur" ben.-lits would warrant. II
~" Try 10 tearh the IeoTl,. that it -
>nlIni economy tp furnish the cost ami
lab"r that l. nee.ie,i. .e must recognize
the fact that in many eases IrIvy vaults
ami Cr>StrrnlS cause no immediate INJURY
10 the health of the people living in TN,
midst OF ar over then.
Water poisoned hy sewerage i, drunk
with no apparent III effects, by many
prisons, ami prIpr To- the outbreak of an
erl'ir".c W. cannot often shaw that tin.
sickness or the death rate uf town ht~
l~em or is effected by filth. Especially
l. THIS the cit-e where the filth j. unSeer
hut rs retained by the snil beneath. A.,
a community We have no idea. no CON
rtrtInn of the Various WAYS that AR,
Water and fool are poisoned by sewage.
or lts attendant gaseous products. Tia.
: III OF one Of our largest rltieS Is a COM
plct" honey comb uf vaults and cesspooIs
the number running up to IA larger figure
than seventy thousand. certain II j.
that the ground ~ that city Is 81 satu-
rated with filth that tlrr. is not one well
IN TIA" place which supplies water til tor
use. Other elites hay" such badly
planned and poorly built sewers. that the
entire system Is nearly level. leaky AMI
clogg-I up such a system as that must
seriously impair the health of towns. fol
the soil around H." lire Of sewer i, on.
vast c,Sspool 4 gigantic death trap.
These systems AZ" the buried monu
inrnts al the ignorance pf the men who
planned them. the ylllainy Of thu. Llill
rrS, and the criminal nrghgenc" of thosr
who are responsible Ter the adoption AMI
continuance 81 Ill" system
The lesson taught us by thu advent of
An epidemic i easy to learn, but We
neglect to profit lay il. and the whole
matter Slips our mind. Any man who
Is not "A food can trarr with certainty the
raIl-" of slirh an rphi,mic. We have
but Ia refer to the disease So prevalent
amongst our children IT," past season.
anil a., All.,ll a ~ l,.t., -.
pie reason To locate the cause of our
grief. However disastrous the result
may Il" from cholera AMI typhoid. it Is
small when compared with The ~ liry IT,
health and loss of life du. IT, the slow
POISONING produced upon u community
hy the products oi filth.
In order To- better get NJ the deaths and
inroads upon health which occur m tins
way. W. must carefully sean the vital
statistics Of on cltlrs ami ontlying dis.
tricts. for long periods al time. u will
h. seen that IN MI towns and ,,tlrs where
IN "a correct ~ stem of sewerage has been
built, the death rate shows u decrease.
and that the annual number o' eases Of
typhuid fever has been greatly lrssenrl
Let ~ have "A few teur,s To- look ut il
may ,lo w. some good. Taking Munirh
for an example. W. iinl that from 1851
to 1879 lrahy ccsspools were in use and
the deaths from typhiis alone ~ per
TOO. from lSii', To- 1861 ccsspools wtr,
made water tight and the rate was II :;
from 1865 to 1873. "A partial system Of
sewerage WAS in effect, and the rate WAS
l@.3: from lS,ti to lSS:i, when the sewer
age was completed, the rate had fallen
to q, agrattyirg decrease, surely.
Then IN llamharg, from lN'S to 1871.
with no sewerage, the rat" per 1000
deaths due 4" t,rhus was 80; in 1850.
with sewerage completed tins rate had
fallen To- 1873.
Improvement to health is not ininr-
,liatr. for it takes n year ar eighteen
months to remove the filth from the SOL
by natural processes, aided 10y sewers.
We have one Of two choices in this
matter of sanitary improvement either
hire n competent engineer and build u
suitable system uf srwcrs. ur dtop iii.
matter and become way station, filth.
! soaked and Disseminating. In the first
event We shall grow to ho "A strong,
healthy community in the latter event
the sooner We can sell out our holdings
and get out of the town. the richer and
healthier we shall IT,. rENN EcE.