Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-29

ature and the longer the weather
continues dry the more malignant and
: pernicious the type of fever. The type
Of fever win often be quite different
even in the same localities Indifferent
years. This has been the fact here for
seven years; that the type of malarial
fever has been varied in appearance,
but it was malarial fever. 1t was prob
ably your q bad water" that varied the
type.
In India alone there are about mil
lion deaths from malarial fever a year.
The death rate is about 10 to 20 per
cent. SO that 80 or 100 million people are
made sick by "bad water" there Is
India's water so bad as that? Forget
ting "bad water, Rossier, just read OF
the malarial epidemics that have
i passed through Paris and other cities
when the water was not bad. You
know that a railroad was built through
the thickly built portion Of Paris and a
terrible malarial epidemic prevailed
The water was just the same before and
after. But men have found that disturb
ing the earth or excavating old
inhabited places will start an epidemic
of malaria that is almost foreign to that
locality
Roman swamps have nursed malarial
fever for 1000 years, but its water was
not always bad Common sense would
show that draining swamps, as in
Centralia, would make the water better
by making it percolate through more
earth strata. 1t surely ought to be
purified by trickling through more soil
with all its salts But experience has
demonstrated that the very draining in
Centralia has caused more malaria.
After long draining, however, expert
ence has shown that malaria will lessen.
1t has been demonstrated a hundred
times that newly broken up land will
cause malaria to spread. Men may live
in place to hunt and fisk for years
! entirely free from the disease but as
soon as new field is broken up the
inba abitants begin to show malarial
trouble. Also those families who live
on the side toward which the prevailing
winds blow suffer the most The 'bad
water" was just the same before and
after the newly broken up land.
Brother Rossier it has been demon
strated that soil of malarial districts
carried to Gon-malarial districts and
placed in the windows Of patients sick
with other diseases, will after a short
time of breathing the air blown through
this soil contracts malaria. The sFbad
water, was just the same before and
after in that place Winds viii blow
malaria over wide districts of country
without the aid of chad water"
The present epidemic of malarial
fever, pernicious type, originated
wholly in Centralia, and a mile of
radius would cover almost every case of
malaria that arose. 1t was very
contagious and the country eases were
acquired directly or indirectly in the
city. It was carried for miles in the
country and spread among the families
who received the refugees.
Friend ROssier you have seen what
your chad water has led to, what an
ssepidemy'' it has created It would
appear from the stress you laid on chad
water" that man can get no disease
into his system only through ''bad
water" that man can only drink
malaria. From editorial habits sc this
may have been so with you but other
men breathe and eat Eating may have
as much to do with it as drinking.
/ Prevailing winds show that breathing
acquires more malaria than any other
means. Whole regions blown over by
winds from malarial swamps are
infested by the disease while much
closer lands which do not experience
the winds from the swamps are free,
the 'badwa:er' being just the same. Now,
brother Rossier, ''bad water" is
undoubtedly bad thing, we will admit,
and does endless mischief in all kinds
of water works but really it does not
cause every known phenomenon.
! / When you write your partially inspired
articles do not be too sure before you
consult the health authority for you have
accused "bad water Of a grave crime.
Probably you did not know that malar-
la causes about one half of all deaths.
Just think, that malaria causes three
times more deaths than consumption
Why! brother Rossier please remember
that the most constant phenomena
connected with malaria are, hot dry
days, cool nights, and heavy dews-not
E 'tbad water" Allow us to remind yoU
that malaria devastates barren rocks
mountain ranges and high table Lands
as well as swamps. Much more might
be said relative to such an important
subject But probably sufficient has
been suggested to allow "bad water" {
few days rest and not to thrust on it the
brunt of every i'll like the poor innocent
, scapegoat of old. Rossier may you lift
+ long and be happy.
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