Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-15

who MAJ be called s'leper extraordinary
to his royal highness the prince Of
Wales. In fact, having knocked
around the world and annexed as much
OF it as ae eougd lay his hands on, John
| Bull finds that he has annexed many
countries in Which leprosy is at home,
and has thus brought the
disease to his own doors, as it were It
is good old-fashioned malady, and the
opinion that it can not flourish outside of
Asia or Africa is erroneous. Greece had
plenty OF it once, and Aristotle IS ieseFip-
ton of the disease-the earliest known
was made from personal observation.
The Persians were the first 10 put in force
against il the scheme of rigorous iSola-
ton. That was about 600 b C.. This is
probably one of she contagious diseases
that man did not ges from the lower ami
mails. 1t appears to be related in its
origin to the use of a diet of putrid fish,
and only the dog, of all domestic animals,
would share that diet with man Some
nations are yet fond of putrid food in the
form of cabbage, cheese or game, and
the ancleuts had q weakness for offensive
fish. They use it still in the countries
where leprosy is epidemic. Having thus
produced q bacillus, the bacillus can be
passed along even to nations that abhor
fish.
In his paper read before the doctors
at Newport Col. Waring simplifed to
four points the requirements for putting
towns, villages and houses in a good
sanitary condition. He demands pure
water, effective ventilation, the regular
removal of putrescent substances gar
bage) and free water carriage for house
drainage. Against these requirements
oft +
would be foolish to anticipate any I'M
mediate reduction in our death rate. Our
water is only fair, and about one-half
the houses in the city are poorly off as
TO ventilation. AS to garbage, the
houses and streets are never free from
the odOr of it, and our water carriage
system of sewerage is just now a failure
for want of water. All over the city
there is wailing for water. In all houses
where the pressure from the reservoir
is supposed to force the water to the up
per stories, the upper stories are without
it-not merely the third and fourth sto-
ries, but the floor that is one flight above
the street. Only those houses that have
a large cistern on the roof supplied by d
steam or gas pump, are safe against the
evils of water closets without water. And
yet can anybody mention a year in
WHICH We nave uslU more Talu JQdu we
have had this year? If with rainy year
the supply is SO short, in what condition
should we be with d dry year? If the
present scarcity is not necessary conse-
quence of the inadequacy of the mains;
if, as has been limited, it is a piece of
trioke1y to torce new expenditures, it is
a dreadful villainy.
The hyglenic congress to be held at
Paris this summer will be an important
event. 1t is organized in eight sections
The eighth section has the subject of Gre
nation, and its proceedings will prac-
tically amount to a special congress on
that topic. The other sections are: One,
hygiene of infancy; two, city and coun-
try hygiene; three, baeteriology;e.fo four,
Industrial and professional hygiene; frye,
sanitary police; six, authorizations OF
food; seven, vital statistics. There will
be important discussions on the subject
of the removal of garbage and the treat
ment of unhealthy houses, giving the
experience on these points of the Paris
authorities. ss.Et5,sI