Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-16
Opposite Baker Blk.


cholera should it come. 1t is not the
present alone that we are guarding
against, but the future. The greatest
danger will be next year. Follow out
carefully all instructions given and keep
clean. During the last days OF Novem-
Der the American Public Health associa-
tion will meet in the City of Mexico,
and the subject will come up there for
discussion. / will attend to participate.
DO not let US here in California be un-
prepared for cholera visitation, either
this year or next. New York was caught
entirely unprepared, and observe what
sad results have ensued."
DIR. Orme has given the subject of san
itation great study, and his remarks are
timely and to the point.
THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
From circular issued by the state
board of health. the following facts are
obtained as to what steps that body has
and will take, as noted:
1t is the intention of the state board
of health, as soon as the emergency
arises, to establish refuge stations at the
points of entry of railroads into the state,
aud to exhaust every resource author
lied by the laws of the state to prevent
cholera from passing our borders.
II it be practicable to stop all trains on
the Oregon, the Central Pacific at
Truckee, the Atlantic and Pacific at
Needles, and the Southern Pacific at
Yuma, and compel every man, woman
and child, with baggage and freight, to
be washed and fumigated, the express
and mail matter to be effectually disin-
fected, and change of cars made, with
out any escaping the ordeal, the queran-
tine might be called effectual; but it
would be far from absolute, for measures
could scarcely be taken to prevent pas
senAer from getting off a train before
reaching the quarantine station, and rid
ing or walking around it into the state.
No rejecting person will declare prac-
ticable the placing of an absolute land
quarantine along the California border
What immunity have the people then
from the much-dreaded cholera? None
at all, except that which is with GER
tainty obtained by cleanliness. This, it
will be urged, is impracticable in some
quarters. Clean up your own prenises,
then; clean the we'll empty and disin-
feet the cesspool and privy vault /;
cleanse the house drains: allow no garb-
age heaps on your premises; ventilate
your Easements, and you have made an
excellent beginning. Then get your
neighbor to do the same, and get the
town, village or city authorities to adopt
like measures. A town, like private
house, has source of water supply to
lock after and sewer system with a
place of discharge. It has its slaughter
houses and glue factories, its crowded
tenement houses, and fostering plague
spots.
Look to your local health boards and
back them in their efforts to place your
town in condition to resist the invader
by depriving him of subsistence. 1t
cannot exist and propagate without
some formsof filth to breed in.
1t is better to be prepared for the
worst. Persons having a slight diarrhea
will conceal the fact and pass the in
spector, and yet the discharges may con-
tain the germs of cholera, and be scat
tered along the line of railroad to infect
Others. The infectious germs once
arrived in locality will never be able
to do any damage if they do not meet
with soil favorable for their repro
duction.
Pay no heed, then, to those emotional
persons who theorize on the practicable
ity of absolute land quarantine, but be-
come a disciple and follower Of clean
illness and purity.