New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-20

and enete substances. with no less mcrobic life IN
them than has the drainage pipe which the san,.a.y
| plumber so often finds prOnt In removing from q
fashionable dwelling at tho behest OF iashioha9ne
30 paSs MATER aou md hav
Ing for ages consumed water containing b0tn animal
lie and mineral matter, 1t question whether man
can flourish nearly SO well on socaled pure water.
The much trumpeted cholera microbe owes ls tem-
mmicrobc worship Laboratories are constant search
for objects OF interest Yet we go on swaiiowng
as We always have done. 1t seems that nothing VIII
teach wisdom, not ridicule even IL Is only year
since the tnberculin' fasco. when the doctors were
making public their silly experiments with Kochs
discovery for the Of consumption and doubtless
With cholerIne1 with which to dose poor cholera
sufferers. In Germany. where kn0Wledge OK cnoerS
has been so loudly proclaimed their Inability 20 cope
demonstrated The comma bacillus Of wLichSo much
was expected by is being allowed TO settle down
again in Obscurity, as useful attendant upon inc
disease. but certainly not responsible Tor MS orgn:
| At least there are many who cannot accept kochp
ingenious theories
There appears to be but little fear among the people
now OF the early y ia Se distant it Is to be-
unprecedented that little will be done to protect cru.
could could I be- organized rot committee holding up
resolutions but determined TO carry OUT reiorn
ncim,nd dmst OF the town from their feet when the
| pestence comes. and leave the hndmost for the
NOT wait longer before e>crlng themselves. but 50
TO work and clean up tenements ana s,rerts NOR
saSaon an" give employment to thousands Of idle chm
and Of work sSom nnr Ss saa to n:
cmisr,,on Of any all the better, since their absence
Is most desirable. OF the very first IMPORTANCE 1 y
crowded together in filthy tenemenis reduced IN
vitality they are from nS %Sst av %, ids
TO The spread, OF the discasebearing in mind that
Ssnf w o Tsa arpo ok thos:
50 poor that they must hudde themselves togetnef
Tnn oH xtnl hs pSpnaon Of
one to fresh air and keep as cSan IS , may S
never he swept from plnce to place-never swept
from house 70 street but taken mp wherever iOum4
and anac. s'p 7. IS nnnvoida l'. ''''
We have all the sanitary laws needed ed, for this work:
he laws. but in their execution. Time Is wasted IN
sssss wO nes Ii
Two viii snfce every now and then some one one ne
cs % Dc SOMETHING n"at
issued for the inspection of foods Thought by the
rewsp,pers Of raids made on fiuitstnds sstails and
the like belonging usually to persons vending 1904 to
lions and destruction Of food said 10 be nnwholesoms
because OF its age Now y, we all Of rs sSt the mt
Seraai S Sn' the same may be many other fruits
nS q %s0 ,%
Of decay Do We not see all through nature In both
and S md STs n D
to foods in every state OF decomposition t Many
HI hs IN prsferemce to foods Every one
1s fancy viii agree that Immature fruit is not whole
,rihniIon of cabolc acid, chloride Of lime and other
m melting chemicals for the alleged purpose Of dis
not by any possibility disnfect anything as generally
employees Disguise other odors they may, tnousn
strang' that the public regards sncn things done TOR
,hereP not some members Of the Board Of Health
possessed with an uncommon, share OF good sense.
r,.,crs might b., worse ttan trey are.
This f. hut hasty sketch Of some ~ the evils
under which our municipal government labors. u
eli az the departments concerned In urban sanitation
have not had their shortcomings cited 1t Is certainly
not because they deserve any the less There
ara other cities In the United States that very much
need sanitary reform. and In Chicago where q large
nNns OF visitors is expected to coner.sate duTine the
Worlds Fair live for the MIST part under the nm
wholesome conditions Of ov.r,crpwdinG undue e.
partjruisrv favorable to the prevalence OF cho!ere
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