Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-07-22
THE SANITARY CONDITION
or Mountain Fomc Unsatiafsctory---
Prompt Remedial Meas
uree Demanded.


with the most glorious discoveries
and the greatest achievements in
industries, arts and sciences. HUI
mainly Of to-day owe great debt
of gratitude to the Creator for the
privilege of their existence in this
epoch Of progress. Our allotted term
of life, though somewhat briefer
than in the Bible times, is with
all considerably longer in the relish
of a great variety of events now con-
veyed TO US in the short lapse of
few minutes. formerly requiring
months and years.
We harness the lightning and the
steam, and bid them subsection to
our needs; we control the mighty
cataracts and bend them to our
purposes; we subjugate the winds
and utilize their power in q multi
tude of forms. With the services
of these imperishable factors man
is verify the king of creation and is
enabled to obtain the most daring
feats, turning into account his in
genuity in lieu Of physical strength.
In our state of advancement moth
ing has been neglected which might
concur to the happiness, prosperity
and longevity of man. Hygiene,
also called preventive medicine,
stepped into the world in hand to
hand struggle against disease and
death, not to advise the use of en-
carnations, the ingestion of nause-
GUS nostrums or the abstraction of
our hearts blood, as wonted in the
dark ages of medicine, but to inves-
tigate their causes and teach US
how to avoid them, thus preserving
our health and prolonging our life.
Within this century, but chiefly
in the last fifty years, the most en-
lightened members of the medical
profession have enlisted in this cru
SADIE against the ailments of hui
mainly, and the benefits already OBJ
tanned in this direction are not in
ferior ia number or magnitude to
any others conferred upon mankind
by any practical application Of
science.
Who has forgotten the terrible
devastations of the scurvy on board
ship, the typhus fever in the Jail
and battle field, the outbreaks OF
typhoid fever in rural populations,
the small pox everywhere, with its
following of Disagreement, blindness
and deathp Who ignores the pesti-
ferrous visitations of the cholera
with its so per cent of mortality,
the rabies or hydrphobia, with a
fatal issue of nearly every case, the
most dreaded consumption carrying
desolation to whole families?
Who has relegated some of these
ills into the annals of history and
modified the others to the point OF
divesting them from their most ia.
tai characteristics Hygiene.
Two centuries ago the mortality
in London, England, in normal
times, amounted to so per thou,
sand, to-day it is reduced to %
Thirty years since the English
troops at home died at the rate o.
20 per thousand, now the mortality
} is reduced to less than one-half.
Practical hygiene, which to a GER
, tain extent can not be separated
! from climatology, has found immu
nifty for several diseases and, by tn,
: observance of its precepts and rules
has rendered inhabitable placer
A formerly incompatible with human
e life.
s If such is true, and I am sure M
one will attempt TO deny it, there il
e no excuse whatever for any com
n munity, however small it may be
b to remain in the blind ignorance o.
1 the advancements of modern sci
ences, and continue to neglect tn,
a health and shorten the lives of thei
j members by disregarding their laws
: Right here in Mountain Home
. we have a striking illustration o
what crude and primitive method
: can do. We have q most beautiful
: valley surrounded by PICTURESQUE
foot hills and lofty mountains
J plenty of sunlight, dry and pur
atmosphere, sun sets that compar
advantageously with those of ia
n nous Italy, and moonlight night
n unrivalled throughout the universe
+ A place of this description ought L
t be an ideal haven of health an,
: longevity, but ! regret to state sucl
8 is not the case; we have more sick
ness than other towns with large
u populations and o proportional
/ rate Of mortality.
: The chief factors of our insalu
tary condition are as follows:
lst.-Impure water, emanatin
: from shallow wells polluted by SUI
face drainage.
= 2nd.-Poorly built houses incap
" able of retaining heat in winter, O
protecting the inmates from tn
:, sudden vicissitudes Of the atmos
: phere in any season.
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and excremental matter about tn
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