San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-05
ghe Daily Eight.
SATURDAY, JANUARY. 5, 1889.

of privy construction Of adaptation shot,l,
be enforced. People should not be permitte,
to be a nuisance to themselves or their neigh
bors. They should be made to bear the ex
pense Of such alterations or new construc
lions, and they might thus be taught K
value them more Frequent removal, espe
cially in the warm season, should be enforced
No man or householder should be allowed IL
do his own scavenging or to clean out his
vaults or cesspools and spread their contents
over his grass or garden land. If cesspools
are permitted, the kitchen drain should ter
inmate in separate cesspool from tho soil
pipe of the water closet. In thickly settled
districts no wells, except those driven through
the clay and receiving their supply Of water
beyond the possibility Of surface contamina-
ton, should be allowed to exist, and all ex-
listing old fashioned wells should be filled in.
House traps should be inspected from time
to time, and every outlet for fluids from
houses should be trapped No cesspool or
vault should be ventilated into a house
chimney,
AIDS OF HOUSE CLEANLINESS.
House sanitation is most largely within the
control of its occupants. One Of the most
important aids of house cleanliness is thor
ough ventilation. As this cannot usually be Sc
cured by ordinary methods, it can at least be
aided by giving all the rooms in tho house
every fine day a thorough air bath. Sun
shine should be invited rather than excluded
Who has not been disagreeably affected by
going into certain houses and being met with
a rank, filthy atmosphere, loaded with the
exhalations from human bodies and lungs,
which have become 80 persistent by lack of
proper ventilation as to impregnate not only
the air, but the carpets, furniture, curtains
and bedding of the house, and even the cloth
ing of the occupants, which gives public
notice of the fact every time they board
a horse car or a steam carr Many people go
into the country or down to the seashore in
the summer months, shutting up their houses
closing them against light and ventilation.
In short time the water remaining in the
kitchen and water closet trap dries up, leav-
ing free passage for the foul odors from
sewers or cesspools. Then the microbes take
possess on, and revel in the humid atmos-
phere of the August days.
By the lSt of September the family return
from the country and occupy their houses
They have not, as a rule, taken the pre-
caution to have their house thoroughly
aerated for a few days before their return
Perhaps not window is raised. Can it be
wondered at that, with such unhealthy sur
roundings, one OF more of the children or the
adults fall sick in day or two, and that-not
realizing the dangers of home-the cases of
typhoid fever thus developed are said to have
been brought home from the country9 There
is no manner of doubt that cases of typhoid |
have been imported from summer stopping
places. but how many are produced in the |
way mentioned are rarely or never suspected |
Mi is another fruitful source of typhoid
cont lgion, but just to what extent it is |
is not quite certain. A milkman |
does not, except in rare cases, raise the milk |
he supplies which is derived from number I
Of sources and usually mixed, any one of |
which supplies, if it furnished infected milk, |
would render dangerous the other supplies |
with which it was mixed The milk supply |
should be carefully looked after, and the |
places where it is produced should be visited |
by competent men and inspected with re-
gard to their sanitary appointments
Herald,