, 1888-10-11
OUR GOOD HEALTH.
Climatic and Cleanly Condition
of Spokane.

Climatic and Cleanly Condition
of Spokane.
The healthfulness of a city is the first.
matter considered by all well to do peo.
pie, who come west to abide and change
their residence for life. Health il Is, first,
last and all the time, it being duty we
all owe to nature, to live as long as pos.
sible.
Spokane is very healthy place, and the
REVIEW can prove II TO be so. IL Is
healthier than any one Of twenty'seyrn
cities east of the Rocky Mountains, the
lowest rate of mortality among them being
1918 per each thousand population, and
the highest 2G,57; while the average
death rate here is but l,l3 per thousand.
This record Ia the result Of much cor.
respondence with boards OF health aud
physicians In the cities referred, to by DR..
A. 5. Campbell, our health officer.
A complete examination into our health.
ful condition shows IL to be not only on
account OF our naturally healthy climate,
fine drainage and atmospheric conditions,
but because even at this early date in its
growth, every means and precaution
known are adopted for Il certainty In this
direction.
The wisest and best directed methods
have been adOpted by the board OF health
of the council, the executive head being
the health officer; and the workings of his
administration are highly commpnilhe
The health department Of the city govern.
ment WAS enacted IN June, 1857.
PUBLIC SUIsANCEs.
The doctor has adopted system 20 re-.
move what are com monly known rs public
nuisances, and prevent their existence
here. Under his administration, In
spector j. O.. Bennett tan excellent o..
ticial, has doue good work in this ditec.
tion during the past six weeks. lie has
| filed 200 complaints, mainly against plf1-
vial privy vaults and offensive back yards,
The system OF notifications and executions
IN this direction is perfect and when after
suitable notification the pestfrrous spot,
do not disappear, the work is done by the
city and the property wherrOn the garbage
was is held for the expense. This Il all
right. No one citizen should maintain u
public nuisance.
In cities where this cleanliness is neg
lected, typhoid and scarlet feyers, and all
the zymotic disease spores are Rcrmind'
ted. There Is always great danger from
the accumulation OF filth and rubbish.
RECORDS or DEATH.
All deaths are at once reported 10 The
health officer, and perfect record of then
anu cause W htlN ny uIul' AhAo - q
proper thing TO do, as communications
from the east arrive here frequently max
ing inquiry about all sorts OF people, who
were last heard from at Spokane.
The entire number of deaths that have
occurred in this city since September |
1887 is 24l. This includes the prenatal
the pauper and the poor from the koOtl
: mai country, Idaho. Many of them wer,
from Occur d'Alene and Palouse. wht
died while here in the hospital, anC
should not be charged to t,e record OF tn'
city.
In a short time DR.. Chapman proposes
to have classified list Of all the diseases
entered for his annual report to the city
about the lst Of January next.
HEALTH IN THE SCHOOLS.
Last January, when the smallpox brok
out in Portland, Seattle and Butte city
on both sides of us, the health officer tool
safe measures to prevent its contagiol
here. He not only visited the schools TO
the purpose of inspecting the childrei
who had been successfully nccinnted
but he issued strin gent orders that etfcC
tually prevented any epidemic here.
DISTORTION OF GARBAGE.
Al recent meeting of the city council
the recommendation of the health CON
mittee for the construction OF garbag,
furnace for the city, was approved and
contract is about TO be entered into witt
the Eagle Sanitary and Cremation Com
pany at Des Molnes. Iowa, for crema
tory. the kind made there being bes
suited to our requirements, and less ex
pensive than other kinds. Their cheap
ness is because OF the small amount o
royalty to the patentee. The royalties OF
such machines range from $500 to $500
| on each furnapp