The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1895-03-16
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EDITOR GREENvnLE Tmn.

' paper eFery week with
musn interest aud notice that yOu Ar.
a0lng good wsrk for the Delta. Iw.
was especially interested in the editor.
ial published in the issue of ,ha ana
lns's headed "Some Mislskess y II
Wa excellent As far as 1t went hnt
uiu not bring to light the root Of the
malaria fallacy. - '"e
l believe II has become . well a..
saohshed fact that malaria IA obtained
rom water, aud not from the atmos.
Pnefe' Upon this point would in.
ne your attention to a paper read At
,ne late meeting Of the Ml.sIssinri
saiey Medical Association. At Ho,
springs Ark, by DR.. w. II. DAILY. of
IiI'sourg, Pa 1t was entitled sM..
iaria water-born disease aud an.
cussed The subject exhausliysly. al,o
eonvincingly. In summing M. the
learned physician declared It impor.
tant 10 remember, that the water con.
duc'ors OF malaria include coutsmi.
na'eu land water which may be taken
INTO the the stomach on stalks of eel.
cry or leaves Of lettuce, or in milk
auuitera'ed with water CONTAINING the
poison, or taken from cans rinsed
win such water; also that cistern
wafer stored in the earth may be easi.
~ contaminated when the clsterus are
crscked or so poorly constructed that
'Iey permit water from the soil sur.
rounding them 10 percolate into them
conceive It TO be an inpossibihty
70 poison the atmosphere; there 10 too
vast an expanse Of Il, and It is too con.
stantly moving; your atmosphere Of
to-day will be that Of distant sections
tomorrow ?; every hour givcs you a
fresh atmosphere. The difference be.
tween your climate aud that of higher
ATTITUDES and northern latiludes Is IN
temperature; your higher telnpera.
lure season lasts longer. In point Of
heallhfulness, that 10 10 the advantage
Of the North, in some respects. but In
others no. The rigorous winters in
The North drive hosts of people South
" preserve their health aud more
would like to emigrate, but are pre-.
vented by lack Of means.
II the water supply of your section
for drinking purposes and household
use, is rendered and maintained whole.
some, malsrial diseases will disappear
there. You refer to the prairies Of
Illinois, but II is q solemn fact thai
where the water supply is not locked
to as herein suggested, chills and fever
typhoid fever, pneumonia and oil dis
eases usually ascribed to malarIal pois
oniug, are as prevalent on those prsir
les as when they were first settled.
believe that ordinary well waite,
Is almost universally unhealthy and
that the water of carelessly construct
ed cisterns, which leak and admit sur
face water. or water frsm the soil sur
rounding them, Is also unhealthy: bu
the water Of a carefully constructed
cistern is pure, and there can be n,
germs OF malaria In 1t. When the peo
pie Of your rich agricultural regior
accept this idea and depend upol
good cisterns for their water supply
there will be au end 10 their malaria
troubles. The cisterns must be thor
oughly well built. There Is no securit,
IN clsierns constructed by careles
negroes, working under contract. Th
cistern must be carefully cementet
and lined with brick. Then the waite
! to supply II must come from clesl
roof. The water thus provided vii
insure any family against malaria
diseases, II none other Is used.
In this section, intelligent manufac
turers do not hesitate to go into th
swamps and start large manufacturin,
enterprises; but they build good cis
terms, which is their first investment
aud as a result, they have no troubl
/. frsm malaria; IN fact, they discharg
man for having ague, which is re
garded as an act of carelessness an,
neglect. With US, farmer can no
borrow money on mortgage on hi
farm, unless be has carefully con
structed cistern and uses only pur
: rain water. Capitalists will not len,
money TO man who is idly shskin,
with the ague two or three msnths Il
the fall of the year.
In your city Of Greenville, wit
your water works, you can get pur
aud wholesome water from othe
, sources. There is no better water Il
The world than the Mississippi rive
water, properly filtered, and the waite
obtained from the artesian sands, sue
!, as are found at Memphis, is equal
healthy.
This matter Of pure water was we
understood before the war by the II
& telligent planters ln and about Matches
They had many cisterns on their plar
ta,ions aud allowed their negroes
use none but cistern water, and theI
was q total absence of chils aud fevs
in consequence. When the people
5 the Delta follow their example, the
will end the malaria fallacy there.