Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-30
BOARD OF HEALTH.
state-Thousands of People Dying
Unnecessarily.

+ ITO the Gazette.
81 Is there q necessity for q board o
sshealth? AS we'll ask, is there a neces
ssssity for police force? It Is the bust
Syness of the latter to protect the lives an,
Improperly of citizens. It is the bushes
aof the former to protect the lives anC
apreserve the health of citizens, and max
%life worth living and property worth pos
sssessing. What is life and property wortl
saif citizens are sick and dying off by tn
tshuudreds from the effects of disease
\ that could be avoided with properly o
s3ganized and Systematically carried on
tsplans. 1t costs money, and n good dea
;Sof it, too, to run an effective police sys
latem, and nobody grumbles about it
3either; but when an effective health sys-
sitem is asked for, every dollar granted
sltherefor looks as big as q cartwheel
Notwithstanding the benefits arising from
iathe latter would be many times greater
Ethan from the former. The truth is We
lshave been running III ruts so longit j:
,ahard to get out of them. 1t is almost
1simposslble for US to believe that sick
'2ness aud death is really proven able
give are skeptical. We are like thi man
l9who says he believes in future rewards
laand punishments, believes IN a devil and
lahell fire, and yet by his conduct gives
1.-THE lie to his profession. Way down in
'sthe depth of our hearts we don t ielieve
Iswhat these "health cranks' are rating
,sabout. What's gwine to 10 will
Isbe,'' and that is the end
iof it with great many people =.
'sThe sickness and death they enoounter
iaare the "vlsitations of God''--a foul
ISLANDER upon a merciful and beaefcent
sCreaior.
4 The Creator OF our bodies, at tleir cre-
Sation, ordained certain inexorale laws
flor their government and en1ow us with
Sufficient intelligence to interprt these,
flaws, just as he endows the brue crea-I
ation with instinct for this purpoe, and iii
lis plainly our bounden duty not only to|
study the laws governing physical organ;
sization, but be governed by then.
4 When our loved ones are stri1en down
with typhoid fever, 1t will not 20 to cryE
tout, "an effective dispensatioi of PROVO
sidence. I" Rather let US acknowledge
sthe corn and own up, that it VS. broughtS
sabout by drinking contamlnted waters
(which could have been preveDed, if it,
chad been somebody IS especial business tos
slook after the purity of our drnking wal
gter. Let there be no dodgina but lets
Sthe responsibility rest where ; belongs.
I'VE have been long enough mzing Prov \
yidence scape-goat for our sis, both off
somission and of commission.
The trouble in the way is, tat there is 4
mo one to attend to these matters.
i"What is everybody businessN
lis nobody's business. - Each oneE
sfor himself and the evil takeE
the hindmost" will not o for this
sphilanthropic, benevolent ad enlight- 4
sened age. Combination, Oganization,
sunlty and concert-these 40 the tails q
manic words needed. A ste board ofz
health with complementary ocal boards Z
ifll the bill-meet all the iiications in 4
1.-THE case-maklng perfect anitary sys-
item for the whole state. 1tnay be saidS
1 that our present system is suicient If they
flaws were only carried out ed enforced. =
1t is answer enough to this SAY that veg
have tried this system and find it want 81
ling; and if those whose dy it Is madeE;
10y our present laws to lookifter healthy
matters were ever SO mucl disposed toy
act in the capacity of sanarians, theyS3
;have neither the training Necessary to fitkl
lOE INC Va thCll
duties nor the time to spa from their23
Iother duties. Their time fully takenE'
iup with what they considerheir regulark1
business. Their health dies they re- Sc
gard as a kind of extra-tty arrange rs
iment, which they may or ny not do, assS5
their convenience or innation mayE;
dictate. 81,
Either "a what is said amt prevent
!; t. innf cn
lis not SO it is q delusioI cheat, as
fraud, lie and soubody ought El
ito undertake to expos the sham Is
liz it is SO, then the people@
fought to speak out in unntakable Ian "a
'guage and let their servas, the legis- IA
!lators, know their min-just as theyga
iare doing now as regards failroad COM s
mission. s
1t is estimated that therare 5000 peo-N 3
pie dying annually in TIES unnecessa-
'rily, and that SO 900 ZOO p lost annu- 81
ally to the state that mht be saved.
Think of it, If 1t is not sthen show itp
prove it. We make thelsertion, an d
have given the proof tlu and agaIu,
and challenge refutation Ism It this a 4
Question of sufficient impance to ar ~,
rest the attention of tfpeople? TheHt
railroad question dwarfsito insignifi- Esi
canoe when compared widths question
of preventing disease I'D aVerting @sc
death. al
The doctors, although tir pecuniary N
Interests would be injurdthereby, areEA
almost q unit throughout entire state Esst
for the enactment of la making it the sssl
especial business of cern parties toE3t
lool. after the health intets of the peo- Sdt
pie, lust as is now the buses of certain sci
parties to protect their liy and properties
IN another way. Sc
CAN that q man hathll he give for Fit
his life. Job IL. 4. 9l
+. L. CUNNETAM, NJ. d. SIS
Fort Worth, Tex. jury, 1880. lc
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