St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-05-31
THE HEALTH OF THE STATE.

led win o. Grover in Granite Monthly.
THE HEALTH OF THE STATE.
The State Board of Health has
issued circular to local boards and
health officers looking to precaution-
airy measures the present season,
and urging thorough sanitary in
spection. These hints are given:
The season is at hand when the
mortality from diarrh9al disease
will increase. The relation existing
between uncleanliness during the
''hOt season" and these diarrheal
diseases has long been recognized
fact in sanitary science; /. e., these
diseases are pTeventable.
All house garbage, animal and
vegetable, should be destroyed by
burning, and all accumulations of
refuse during the winter should be
removed from the neighbOrhOOd of
dwellings.
Look we'll after manufacturing
ablishments, slaughter houses,
cheese factories and tenement houses,
drains. cess pools and farm yards.
Closets, sewers and alleys in and
about public buildings, depots,
hotels. school houses and places of
business should be watched con-
tinually.
Privv pits should be replaced by
water closets or dry earth boxes
made water tight.
Examine and watch all sources of
water supply. Remember that wells
or springs near dwelling houses are
always unfit sources.
We would emphasize our previous
recommendation of thorough vac
cination. Smallpox is still alarm
ingly prevalent about us, especially
in the cities, and the means of its
spread are on the increase.
RARE DOCUMENTS.
B. F. Stevens of London, who was
formerly a citizen of Barnet, has
made another valuable addition to
his rare documents. The following
is taken from the London Daily
News:
Mr. B. F. Stevens, the distinguished
American antiquary of 4 Trafalgar
square, will shortly publish a most i'm
portant addition to his series of fac
SMILES of manuscri pts in European
archives relating to America. This is
nothing less than an exact reproduction
of one of the two existing copies of the
Book of Patents, Privileges, and Con-
cessions, granted to Christopher Column
bus by Ferdinand and Isabella. The
transcript of the original Codex is dated
1902, the year IN which Columbus sailed
on his fourth voyage. 1T was sent to
Paris by order OF Napoleon the First,
and it is preserved in the archives of the
French ministry Of foreign affairs, and is
esteemed the most precious document in
the collection. Mr.. Stevens, by rare
good fortune, was permitted to have not
only free access TO 1t, but to make all
suitable preparations for the reprOduc-
ton which is shortly to be published.
He erected his Photographic studio in the
garden of the foreign Office. The original
is in Spanish, in the extremely beautiful
manuscript of the period. On one side
of his page Mr.. Stevens gives this in
fac-simile; on the other he supplies the
Spanish text in the type of our day, and
opposite to it a close, and yet a readable
English translation, beautifully printed
in black letter. Every reader interested
in the subject may thus find his account
translation are by Mr.. George Barwick
of the British Museum. The introduction
is by Mr.. Henry Harrisse, while Mr..
Stevens himself supplies the preface, and
all the materials of compilation. The
documents are forty-four IN number, and
they relate to the chief administrative
arrangements of the great voyage. One
of them coDfers on Columbus the rank
Of admirable, viceroy, and governor Of
the lands he may discover. Another
comedies 10 him an eighth or tenth
share of the profits. The appendix to
the volume contains three autograph
letters of Columbus, and the decree O.
the Republic of Genoa in 1910 relating
to the transmission OF the precious docu
ments, and to their preservation. Tht
work will be printed in limited number
of copies, and it will form perhaps tn,
most remarkable of the great nationa