Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-04-09
PERTINENT QUOTATIONS.



'HThe intention and object of domestic
sanitation is so to construct houses for
human beings, or if the houses be con-
structed, so TO improve them that the va
rious diseases and ailments incident to
bad construction may be removed to the
fullest possible extent. The diseases need
not be looked upon as necessities of eX-
istence, but may be recognized as results
of ignorance, or accidents which, though
they may not spring from sheer and wan
ton ignorance, are removable by accurate,
fore seeing and all pervading knowledge"
DR.. Richardson.
abundant evidence has been given by
DR.. Parkes in hissManual of Practical
Hygiene to establish with almost abso-
lutte certainty the fact that there is a con-
nection between sewer air and certain
preventable diseases, notably bowel dis
eases.
"a healthy person, having much out-of-
door exercise, may breathe sewer air with
impunity on the other hand people in
delicate health, women and children. may
suffer severely from breathing impure air.
the consequences being slight headache
nausea, vomiting, or diarrhpa, dysentery,
scarlet fever, cholera, diphtheria, etc.
/ WOrkingmen engaged for whole day in
cleansing sewers may feel less influence
of the deadly poison than a person sleep
ing in an unVentilated room containing an
untrapped washbowl or other plumbing
fixture"
at has been said that pure air and
plenty OF it. is the best cure for sewer gas
Pure air is just what is needed
in our homes, and shall repeatedly refer
to the necessity of an abundant supply of
this life giving element in order to effect
the proper ventilation of all living and
sleeping rooms in particular of all closets
and bath rooms of dwelling, of all
plumbing fixtures, soil and waste pipes,
of the house drain the sewer or cesspool.'
-WiUiGm Pau Gcrhdrd.
LAS the plumbing work of our houses
is commonly done, it would be better for
most of us if we had to bring our water
in buckets from public hydrant, and
carry our wastes to the culvert of the
nearest street or corner ~. c. BNylCS.
1.-The perfection of cleanliness would be
that all refuse matters should from their
very beginning pass away inOtfensively
and continuously and the principles of
approximation to that ideal must evident
ly be the continuous outflow of refuse as
fast as possible and secondly so far as
continuous outflow cannot be gOtl to
provide for the closest possible limitation
and the completest possible innocuOus-
ness of such refuse as is unaVoidably de
tanned. '-Dr. JOIH simon.
Meeting of County school Supe intend
ents.
A meeting of the school superintendent
of Chttenden county was held at the
Office of Mr.. II. o. Wheeler, superintendent
of public schools OF this city, Tuesday
, The meeting was for the purpose of pre-
pairing examination questions for the
. spring and fall examinations of teachers.
There were present Superintendent II.
) O, Wheeler OF Burlington, w. II. Narney
of Charlotte, j. f. Wheelock of Mil
ton, c. II. Hayden of Jericho,
t f, r. Stoddard of Shelburn, b.
!, G. Abbey of Essex, f. W. Hall of Boil
ton, Salmon Green of Richmond, \. o..
kimball of South Burlington, Mrs ORA
per of Wllliston and X. j. White Of Col
chester. The meeting organized by elect
: ing DR., w. H. Narney chairman and j. h.
Wheelock secretary Questions were pre-
, pared for the spring ana fall examinations,
which take place April u and November
10. The county examining board was APP
2 appointed as follows: j. +. Wheelock, ,.
) W. Landon, c. II. Hayden committee
of three was also appointed to take steps
for holding an educational meeting, con-
sisting of Messrs. Hayden, Abbey and
: Wheelock. a resolution was passed OPP
posing the custom among uperinteudents
| of endorsing teachers certificates signed
by other superintendent.