Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1892-09-02
THERE is cause for anxIety IN Or

JONATHAN S. WILLIS
THERE is cause for anxiety in this
country, now chat Asiatic cholera
has reached England. It exists to
an alarming extent at several trans
atlantic shipping points; particularly
IN Russia, Germany, France, and in
other places. The ship-loads Of the
filthy, halfstarved, semi-civilized i'm
migrants that are emptied into our
large cities every day from cholera
infected European ports, threatens
its introduction in this country and
we shall be lucky, indeed, If, with
all sanitary precaution we escape it.
To say there is no cause for alarm,
is idle talk. We know, that with all
the progress in modern medical
science, no positive remedy for the
disease has been discovered; with
this knowledge then before us, it is
right and proper that sanitary boards
of towns as well as cities should be-
gin to do something; to personally
visit and inspect the sanitary condi-
ton of the whole town under their
supervision ttee-tliscoYeE and abate
ali nuisances favorable to the propa-
CATION of germs of the dreadful con-
tagion; such as depressed cutters,
where stagnant water and rotten
vegetable matter are likely to stand;
offensive water closets and pig-stys,
in The business and residence parts
of the town; springy areas like those
ofthe stores onthe east side of South
Walnut street. The premises here,
is surface sobbed with redundant
water, from the upper springs, while
the overlooking water-olosets cover
the whole with a green, sickening
scum. These. grounds should be I'M
derdrained at once toward the river.
Rotten fruit,melon rinds and gar
bage, should not be permitted to &C
cumulate near dwellings on the side
walks, nor in the cutters. It should
be carried away to the suburbs and
buried. Dirty, damp cellars and
filthy storage rooms should be
cleaned and white-washed. The sale
of unripe fruit, stale fish, tainted beef
and decaying vegetables be stopped
in this market. It should be kept
constantly in mind that the danger
Of infection from cholera is largely
dependent on bad food we eat, bud
water we drink, and the foul air we
breathe.
During the late rebellion, heap
Of lemon and melon rinds and gar
bage from the kitchen, was allowed
to accumulate in the rear Of General
Mitchell's tent; he was seized with
violent sickness and died within six
hours; the tent was occupied after
ward by four other persons, two of
whom sickened and died with symp-
toms precisely similar to the first
case. Upon an investigation the
army physicians pronounced the dis
ease cholera, caused by inhaling,
while asleep, the noxious emanations
from the pile ofrotten vegetable and
animal matter. Orders were given,
for the daily removal from camp, of
all such offall, and no further sick
ness occurred.
Many years ago there lived in
house at the east end of
North Second street, on the brow Of
she Hill overlooking a slough ofstag-
nant water-from which gravel had
been dug ana where dead dogs were
,hrown-an old negro man, named !
3eorgc Brown, with his family they
we're taken sick, and he and one or
.wo others, quickly died. Our ply {
icians attributed his death to chol. q
ra, originating from the poisonous a
xhalations generated in the slough. |
{ still exists, and should be drained d
ato the meadow. A later instance f
{ the fatal effects Of drinking pol il
sted water, we're the cases Of John d
ia David Cowan, unmarried BROTH
rs and large land owners, residing it
d what is now the Deep Branch b
BAD, who were so ignorant Of the al
.ws Of health as to allow the ooze 1
ON their COW pound to run into the d
en- water. They both died ofwhat is
az called cholera. 70
Water from the well or pump, is is
4 always the clear, healthy liquid m
appears to be, though drank with I'll
bunlty orlinasily; it is often inn la
nafed wish veqeiable mptter 81