Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-18
po.Rp OF HEALTH SYSTEM.
go, vouId Guard Against Cholera, Yellow
rsyer and other Diseases, She Must
Organize and Clean Up
FORT WORTH, TEX, June Il, 1890.


Totbc Gazette, .ao,z.,os p-o..
-, alarm is occauioned by the continued
- n cholera at Puebla Du Rugatt. The
fP''1- -;.fos are making strong efforts to stamp
s. ".,. disease. but so far their efforts have
o. .,rsrecessful and new cases are reported
Hsl-.r--Evening Nail, 18th inst
GU L', one were so unfortunate as have been,
j 81! to traverse some of the alleys of
10 oeHTSn-tb between O. clock at night and day
hE1t --oTrE-he would mol be surprised 10 hear
II hS "g2 the plague or the black death was
tbs! bieb carnival right here III our midst.
l2ustIs hoard OF health, whose business 1t
o. Or a. he to attend 10 and remove such null
sa3ces,, TO show the apathy, the stolid indif
ID VI and the profound ignorance-not only OF
fsreLCo in general-bUt of those high in au
i6t Fv-F and specially intrusted to look after
bcil' ,o-rprs I quote a few extracts from "a
teailn "a al tbe meeting of the American pub
PsPgf.,.Tt6 association. Brooklyn, October "a,
Y ED br Dr.. ;. 5 RiIvington, health commits
-, - n Minneapolis, etc
f9len ~ I'm the majority of our cities the
ne .,,oble1n OF the disposal of waste matter is
re T-gclcally unsolved, and that 1t Is so is
~ ~" ,.to the absence of methods, not to the
fls ,i,y Of inventive skill, nor to lack Of in
Palet..y in deviSing means to this desirable end,
.rerv large measure 10 official indifference
~ 'r,,-uisr ignorance OF sanitary essentials.
Sl ~ might be able to present to the asso-
Hytr"a179 digest Of statistics which would have
e.A-.0-e teal value, the chairman of your COM
~. ,ss issued some weeks ago circular letter to-
r. health officers Of 1I5 cities IN the United
ss,es The interest which 1t awakened may be
e,.l.sr-ed by the fact that it elected replies
~ int siyfv-six. OF these less than one-third
t335l-rad the possession of sany statistics re-
ding the quantity OF waste materials disposed
gA-'-5 5rnuHI. This letter also invited an ex-
r4Tarrv TsNfa nNh NrFi~ for -QrNi
~ bsst method of disposing of refuse
s,sris and the committee lis
EaI 10 acknowledge very gratefully
"a t,,rfs made by few of its correspondents
q, roset the request. But how little real appre
elton Ofthe pressing Importance of such an in
~, exists, either in the professional or the
tbii- mind is illustrated over and over again in
hi,rgar number of these replies. Health Of
Is IN cities ranging from 100. 600 to 500, 900 in
ronrlatjon remark that they ''have no thought
i56rt Il. that they have no opinion on the
INFECT - and that they ''have had no expert
80 and entertain no views;' while on the
nc hand Que unfortunate health officer in
,i.- Of some 3d. 900 people. himself enthusiastic
n. sanitary reform, plaintively declares that in
ist8vn MS i'm ancient SodOm, there are not ten
,-rbtqrus" enough to manifest the least interest
Health measures of any kind But although
tFsse reoorts from cur principal American cities
Az. rich neither in figures nor in practical views,
'Esy offer abundant testimony TO the fact that
m The matter of waste disposal we are, for the
most mart, in 8 deplOrable condition.
five do not share the fate of the ancient cities
oitHe plain, and are overtaken by no Nemesis
IN fhe way Of regenerating fire and birthstone;
II Ike the Europe OF the Middle Ages, we are
MOI to be purified by the plague; if the cholera, Z
In some Of its periodical tray els from its IndiaH
home does not lind foothold upon our shores,
IL /, simply because we are endowed with =
wealth OF air of soil and of water, whichs
permits us 10 violate, for a time, with seemigS
tnylni,y the laws of health. The most importA,
l1t bar to the progress of health measures lies
10 the tOrpOr OF public sentiment, and it should
B, the highest function of this association to
stimulate the education OF the people in those
interests We have relied too long and too i'm
picly upon our natural advantages. to the
neglect of those precautions which would tend
20 preserve them
The hrstthing for us to do is to get board OF
health system. Texas has no s9eh system, al
though thirty-one other staps have. What
tttteE lime than now to agitGte fhe subject?
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