The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-02

From Savannah the report also comes
that one man was killed and six
others mere or less injured by falling
chimncys Three distinct shocks were
ielt there, the last one at $40 IA. m. yes
terday.
Pure Air. Pure Water and a Pure
Soil"
Editor PALArKA NEws.
IIippocrates said, when asked for a
cardinal hygienic formula, Pure air,
pure water, and a pure soil, and we
shall never be able u say nything so
true and applicable in fewer words.
Nor shall we find sickness where the
conditions named by the sage philosopher
are found.
| We are unqualiii,diy the great un-
washed. and unless we change our san
itary conditions for the better. We shall
keep for ourselves the proud distinction
of being filthy community wherein no
sane man lives.
We bear with commendable PATIENCE
! sickness IN Its seveTa' forms and never
murmur; but " hen an epidemic Of sue-
| ciai mal'gnaucy shall have carried oil Il
| large number OF our citizens, young
| and old, Ht,H some of our good people
will say that OmniscIent and far seeing
| Providence has seen lit To visit Us with
this sad aiilIction.
The Almighty does not take ), tr.rguN.
! putFcfHing matter, HHh, tHty,t,rc Wtt,r,
and HySdIsf0ug surroundings for wc:tp-
| ons with which T. chastIsc us. sui.
| there are I, OILS enough IN this town who
attribute all sickness and deaths Ia the
wrath of God. Science says, ''If YOU are
sick, you have offended natures Ian =;
| and If you search you viii find the source
| of t-.ubie.
1t is very handy and cunVer,ont IL lay
all of our sickness ami deaths 10 the
wrath of the Almighty" but II i the
ran kest nj of bla 1phemy to say that
God has nothing else Ia do than To stI.ile
us with dyScHtCry or jcccJ' when the
| the fault IS clearly our own.
| Every one" says Or. stephen Smith,
lis born To health and longevity: disease
is abnormal, and death expect from old
age is accidental, aud both are prevent
| able by human agencies
There a~e Is deaths Ike place every
hour that might have been prev p"
In England we find that of 100 who
die, not 10 reach the age of ij-that OF
| 100 who are born, scarcely Il live - L.
come 5 years old.
The horrors of war are nothing when
compared to the horrors of disease. In
| % years England lost by wars, -, 700
men. In one year she lost 10y cholera
alone III, $50 men, women and children.
And if we place 81 ntOHcy rdivc upon each
case, we are appa led. Each case OF
sickness according to carefully complied
| data, represents S5O-who shall dare
place a value upon Hfc'
DIR. Austin + iint says: Typhoid fever
| is very rarely, If ever, communicated 10y
means of emanations from the bodies of
patients afflicted with the disease. 1t
does not spread from eases III hospitals
to fellow patients, nurses and medical
attendants. Isolated cases are numcr-
Gus, occurring under circumst ;uces
which preclude the ImpOsSihihty of con
tagon. It's specia, cause may be pro-
duct of the decomposition of collections
of human eXcIemeHt. And Br. Flint
hits the nail on the head.
DIR. Simon speaking OF infect.ve mat
teIS on the mucous membrane OF the in
testinal canal says: whether they have
been breathed, or drunk, or eaten. or
sucked up into the blood vessels from
the surface of foui sores, or directly m
lect III into bloc Il vessels 10y the ply sio-
logical experimcntcr, Their" peculiarly
the effect may he locked for; Just ,ts'
wine, however administered. would get
into the head" So the septic fcrmcnt,
whcncesoever it may have entered, is apt
to find it's way To the bowels. and there
as a universal result produces diarrhea.
He believes that typhoid fever is ''spe-
cific diarrhea," and every discharge
frOm,the bowels of the pat !ent must TEEN
with the contagium of the disease.
1t is settled fact in the minds of scion
tiiic men, that the active distributing
agent, the common carrier of typhoid
fever, Is moisture. We frequently no
tice in early mornings or durIng the eve
nings, banks OF fog suspended over some
portions of our town. Often those por-
tions subject To these mistS pc quite
thickly settled. These banks of fog are
due to the cooling of vapor rising from
the ground, and are specially apparent
after sunset and before sCIrise. Facts
will show that the greatest number of
cases OF sicknt s. in Psiaika are located
| in the districts subject u these hanks of
fog. TSphuS germs 2~e kept alive 10y
moisture. and are washed down from
the surface of the ground 20 the ground
water level and there taken up aud car
ried along to our wells.
During drougthS the moisture at the
srrface X eVaporated, and the capillary
attraction of the soils 'ncreased; the
ground water : sucked up, and with it
| the gems OF ''Nc"' Sc. Ih.Se germs, an
Hfs, and ready u commence work upon
the human system at once, are waited
into our houses, breathed in, or drank III
our well water, and some one Immedl-
ately falls a victim To typhus.
We even contact the disease from
fresh milk, when the COWS have b,,p
drink ing polluted water. The instanc.
are numerous, where whole commuI
ties have been ravaged ty Pythogenic III :
eases Introduced through fresh miit
from apparently healthy cows.
CFSSPOOIS
are insti umental in killing more re,I.e
than any thing that know of. The &C
ton Is briefly this: Your a-chitaCt plans
for you a house. with all mode i'm
p pvements, including oUthouses and a,