Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-09-01
DRINKING WATER.
Common Sense" Makes a Few Re.
marks on The Subject.
,rnE Nasty CITY PIPE WAFER
he Thinks 20 b. Inferior 10 That From
Flowing Wells Less than Three
Hundred Feet Deep.
Editoy Deere, Neios

EDITOR Dessrsi NeiCE
In morning contemporary the
other day were statements, apparently
coming from DR.. Beatty, the oity'i
sanitary man, whom our city fathers
keep to tell them wonderful lhlng-
about what 10 good or bad Tor health,
Just AZ II nobody else, and especially
the CITY Council, knew a single thing
about the matter, having lived all their
lives and reared up families In bllssiul
ignorance OF such Important things.
It IL represented In said article that II
has been demonstrated thal the waters
from flowing wells hereabouls, lee,
than three hundred feet deep, are dan
getoua to health, and consequently
that people ough, to DO punished Tor
drinking water from flowing wells Of
hsss depths.
The principal things that appear 20
me In that representation are n desire
To boom DR.. Beatty, aud desire, pos
sibly = conspiracy, 10 Increase the
burdens Of this people, which burdens,
OF coufte are never heavy enough, by
compelling everybody ~ use the nasty
city Pipe water. Why nasty? lie.
cause II often tastes pooly, l.
sometimes ~ muddy rs the
muddy Missouri, sometimes looks
like whitowasb, II 90 hard that "
scratches ones "lnnafds" A. II goes
down, and after II "geis theren Rnd II
the likely cause Of much kidney and
urinary fOLble, IL seldom Of a proper
temperature for drinking, and 10 never
nice. None Of these faults, except per-
hapH a little hardness, are found Ia
good flowing well water, while the
temperature n mostly Just right for
drinking all the year round, which
makes the water very pleasant TO the
taste, anu pleasant when down.
IL we come right down 10 II, all the
water We usually drink runs through
dirt, and therefore, on that ptoceps Of
reasoning, 10 unit to drink. The creek
water receives the wH.hinga from the
hills, Including the debris Of the oamp.
srs aud other animals, and therefore IL |
unit TO drink. Even rain watof |
catches the germs In the air and gels
miHei with the dirt on the house tops, |
Boiling tbs water kills the life In IL, |
but We have 10 DRINK the dead remains,
while the mineral constituents remain
much the same. Even distilled water
IL nat perfectly pure. Whisky IA
product OF the still, and although the
lrishmAn'a conclusion was that "bfead
Ia the stan OF life, but whisky IL life
ITSELF" Jet n has becn demonstrated |
that there are deadly elemsuts even In
whisky.
Now AZ TO the healthfulnem OF the
water from good flowing wells. not
three hundred feet deep. know
man who has as good health ~ DR..
Beatty or tho next man, sud yet who
would rather drink good flowing well
waller ten time, over Than the Objtc-
uonAble city pipe water, aud who often
zoe. out OF his way 10 get good drink
OF flowing wsll water. In tue same
house live two OF three other men, who
DO not 10 after the flowing well water, |
but who content themselves, though
rather gfumblingly, with city pits
water, anu they are often sick OF out
OF sorts as 10 health. Taking this datn,
then, We should abolish city pipe
water, for those two or three men be-
lleve their ailments are caused largely
by their drinking II.
doctors aud other cranky scientists tell
us, We should DO compelled TO the con.
clusion that there IL nothing ia the
world NJ 10 eat or drink, nobody NJ ~
associate with, nowhere III 70 live or
die, sud no suitable method or place OF
burial, ALd that all the known facts of
lilo aDd death are enormously and out
fageoully anu Fundamentally wrong.
The only wonder Is that there is any
llie at all on this miserable planet, OF
ever was any.
Perhaps Il could DO demonstrated
that somebody, alter having visited
the health officer had been bfll ioted by
typhoid fever, and that therefore Dr,
Beatty ought To be abolished, unless
he was three hundred feet deep.
COMMON SENSE.