The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-11
DO YOU WANT THE cHoLERAa
II You Don't. Read the Instructions OF the
Board Of Health.

The board of health, believing that an
ounce of preventative is better than q
pound of cure, met last night and issued
the following document for the guidance
of the public. 1t says:
"The following rules are promulgated
| for the information OF the citizens OF
our city. Should cholera actually come to
US we will find our physicians alive to the
best treatment of said disease, but nc
amount of skill on the part OF the physic-
| ian can atone for the carelessuess of the
people themselves: we therefore ask the
people of Wichita to second our efforts TO
| put the city in good sanitary condition If
| they would do this by everyone attending
! to their own premises that would be the
end OF the whole matter and there would
| be nothing lost if cholera does not visit us.
| We know there are more who laugh at the
| idea of cholera coming to Wichita We
| also know it is lowering over the port OF
| New York and is in both Canada and
Mexico. And we believe the iucredulous
are governed more by their desires than by
any scientific knowledge of the disease. 1t
will travel AS fast as "A railroad train can
carry it, ana he must overestimate our
good fortune or underestimate our COM
mercial Importance who will say that there
is no danger of cholera in Wichita should
it enter the United States at all. We
20 be ready that We may not be taken by
surprise.
Prevention of cholera is easier than
the cure. Healthy persons catch cholera
by taking into their systems through the
mouth as in their food or drink, or from
their hands. knives, forks, plates, tumb-
lers, etc, the germs of the disease, which
are always present in the discharges from
the stomach and bowels of those sick with
cholera.
Thorough cooking always destroys the
cholera germs: therefore
Don't eat raw, uncooked articles of any
kind, not even milk, or any kind OF fruit
during prevalence of cholera.
Don't eat or drink to excess. Use plain,
wholesome. digestable food AS indigestion
and diarrhoea favor an attack OF cholera.
Don't drink unboled water.
Don't eat or drink articles of any kind
whatever unless they have been thoroughly
and recently cooked or boiled and the more
recently and hotter they are the better and
safer they are.
Don't employ utensils in eating or drink
ing unless they have been recently put in
boiling water.
Don't eat or handle food or drink with
unwashed hands or receive it from un-
washed hands of others.
Don't use the hands for any purpose
when soiled with cholera discharges; thor
oughly cleanse them at once.
Personal cleanliness and cleanliness of
the living aud sleeping rooms and their
contents and thorough ventilation should
be rigidly enforced.
The successful treatment and the pre-
vention of the spread of this disease de-
mands that its earliest manifestations be
promptly recognized and treated therefor.
Don't treat yourself for bowel complaint
but go to bed and send for your family
physician at once.
Don't permit vomit or diarrheal dis
charges to come in contact with food,
drink or clothing. These discharges
should be received in proper vessels and
kept covered until removed under COM
petent directions. Pour boiling water on
them, put a strong solution of carbolic
acid in them.
Don't be frightened, but do be cautious
and avoid excuses and unnecessary ex
posture of every kind.
r, 3. ALLEN, President.
P. D. ST. JOHN, Secretary.