Morning journal and courier., 1892-09-12

Thc Old SanitaTfan Com m II Is the Ef-
forts of the Boards of RseaIth-kie
Reveals the Real Cause of Cholera
and Hopes His Contributions TO
Science VIII Vet be Paid by an Of
fee.
To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER.
Are you alives Oh! the awful scourge!
OH the dreadful pestilence! Oh! the ter
rible plague! Boo o-ol the cholera! Oh!
the hideous choleral -o-o-hl B-o-o-o-oI
1t fills me with delight to see my fellow
sanitarians whoop things up and thereby
prepare the public mind for granting liber-
al aid to the cause of science. No one
thing in all my long life has more fully
shown the wisdom of giving ample power
to us than the scientific manner in which
the passengers of the Normannia were pre-
vented from landing and sowing the bac-
terra throughout our beloved land. OF
course, most of these passengers are not
sanitarians and cRrno. understand the
hidden motives for sanitary measures.
Therefore they have bitterly complained.
But this is of no consequence. We want
more power and If we show the public
that we are prompt in using power We will
get more power. No one will ascribe our
conduct to ignorance.
Recently have had the pleasure of see
ing ell the papers print in great headlines,
"Sanitariaus are Alert" This is fine.
Alert is good word. But VINO ever heard
of sanitarian thst was not ''alerti'
But other headlines have been daily
printed which filed my experienced sani-
tary mind with SORROW. refer to the fire.
qnent announcements: "The Sanitarians
are Fully Prepared and Eager to Meet the
Pestilence." The fret ship with cholera
showed that We Were not as prepared as
we thought We were. What my New York
brethren ought TO have said is: Santa
riaus eager to fight in the cause of science,
but sadly hamp per.d from lack of money.
More power also needed" There is moth
| ing for sanitarians like having back door
to run out of.
am, however, pleased to see the active
| way in which one cause of cholera is being
attacked, to wit: the smells that don't
| smell. These are the things which are
full of cholera, and a pile of ashes is
always running over with smell that is
terribly deadly, that is, q smell which no
one ever did or ever can smell. O-o-o-h!
1t horrifies me to think of this awful
| smell. I feel as If 1 had the cholera
| whenever / sec a pan of ashes.
But there is cause of cholera which
| was utterly unknown until revealed by
my profound studies. l concede the ter
| rib,e necessity of abolishing all kinds of
| smells, especially the smells that don't
| smell. But these are a mere drop in the
ocean compared to the principal cause and
source of cholera. If this centrs source
| of the deadly germs were only removed
| the ash heaps would lose their virus and
the smells that don't smell would cease to
destroy humanity.
refer to the presence of black cats and
spotted dogs. By the term "black cat," 1
mean any cat that is partly black. A
"tpotted dog" is any deg that is not all
one color. These are the terrible sources
of cholera and my sanitary researches
have found it beyond a scientific doubt.
| Ny enormous lsbors in the course of
sanitary science have shnwn me these
truths, which every sanitary mind cannot
| fail to endorse and see the wisdom of:
First-Cholera has never been known to
appear in locality where there are
neither black cats nor spotted dogs.
Second-When Cholera does appear 1t is
always in a locality where there are either
black cats or spotted dogs.
The moral of this momentous discovery