The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-01
PHILOSOPHICAL PlTklN.
COL. p. @. WRIGHT TALKS ABOUT
THE SCARE IN THIS CITY.
A Perfect System OF Drainage, Pure and
Abundant Water and Beautiful State
Of Cleanliness Enough to Knock any
Possibility OF Epidemic Silly.

On Saturday Nashville American TO.
porter met Judge Pitkin G. Wright, who
had returned the day before from stay OF
two or three weeks in Memphis, and OBJ
tanned from him an interview up to the
standard Of Col. Wrights usual high grade
Of intelligence. The report states that the
colonel twas most enthusiastic over the
condition OF things there and OF the future
OF the Bluff City. In reply TO an inquiry
as to his fears OF yellow fever and OF the
scare there he said: There is no moro dan
ger Of yellow fever in Memphis today than
In Nashville There il not healthier city
south OF tho Ohio river than Memphis.
Its sanitary condition Is magnificent. ]
wandered all over Memphis and took no.
tcc OF the condition Of the streets and al
leys. have always boosted OF Nashville
ms a clean city, but II Ii in no way moro
clcanly than Memphis.
without one 1.-THE OF the natural al.
vantagrs OF Nashville in the matter oi
drainage, It's sewerage system IN much bet
Ter and moro perfect There Ia not n sur
face waier-closct, such ~ are common in
Nashville, in the city OF Memphis. The
whole city has been most thoroughly in
spcctcd, and all those old ccsspools and
cen,ers Of oontagion and death have been
hunted out and abolished. Wherever II
II possible they have plenty OF water
with direct sewer connections, where this
il not available dry dirt rcccptaclcs arc
used and removed At frequent intervals.
"TnE wAru SYSTEM
n tho best Of any la the south. II IL album
dainty supplied with pure water, superior
20 even the hillside spring, coming from
artcsian wells, which, at the depth oi an
average OF 40 feet, reach an incNhausiiblo
supply. There are some twelve or iiltccn
OF these belonging 10 private parties, aud
the Peabody aud GnyosO hotels, aud
others. aud thirty-two already drilled 10y
the waierwofks company. When this AVS
tenn was fir-t devised The water from the
wells was sent at intervals Of some months
20 Washington for analysis, aud after re-
pcaicd tcsis was pronounced 10 bc nhso'
iutely pure. These three elements care.
full sanitation, thorough sewerage and pure
wa,er-wM insure the health Of any city
"The yellow fever scare OF Scp,cmhc
will pas into history m one of the mos
scnarlcss craxcs this generation has seen
There WIS not q cas- ui yellow fever within
a hundred miles Of Mcmphis and scarcely
n possibility Of any. Even Il a few i'm
ported eases had developed there, ~ they
dill In Nashville In 1850, they could moi
have produced local attacks. Yellow fever
requires long continued hcatund excessive
moisture Tor H. Development aud M
rule. ior two weeks or more preceding an
outbreak ui yellow fever there h. abund
ancc Of nalarial complaints, chllls, oic
None 81 these conditions have existed TIM
past month Ia Memphis. Tho icmpcm
turc has been some 20 lower than the ~
cpgc ior seventeen years past, the u'il
AMI moisture las been very much lc'
than the average, aud Il has been r'mntl
ably free from al malanal diseases. Ia
death rate 1T September, 1855, Is nc lea
% per cent below the average Tor Scptcn
Der. Tor ;hc week ending the I'D the dcail
were only twenty aud siX Of those wei
still born.
"You ask, then. why all this rage e
quamntining. shotgun, nUn.inicrcUurs
and the consequent utter sioppagc oi bus
ncss and loss OF limo and money! Wei
Il came from the
"UNRrAsoNAWE FEARS
Of q few, aud the great aud, perhaps, q,
ccssivc desire OF tie officials Ia avoid eve
the possibility ui disease, aud nn over Hut
sitiyc discharge oi duty. II was hard a.
thosc Of H. citizens who had pussy
through the tcrrum Of ls5S'7p Ca rrllil
that the changed condition OF affairs hu
made Memphis ns free from danger Of n
epidemic a. any one Of the formerly mot
favored cities. hut such Is the truth and
have uo idea that another scasun will cy,
produce the ioam Of this one. There ~
always iu every community people goo.
reliable citizens, Who De- their recollection
AMI urir Evolutionary i,lr run away wit
their judgment and reason. Who. VIII,
thgy come tD themselves will Womb
that they were ro foolish aud will
disposed t0 Upelt Boo earnest the d
quiry once heard boo % somoI
WHY DO people No. 1s they DO doT Tho
who were frightened away constituted %
very small percentage ID the pupulatio
The public schools w,ry open each rch,
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