CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1898-08-04
MEN DIE LIKE SHEEP.


says, concerning spinal meningitis:
s'The disease runs in epidemics, and II
due mainly to bad sanitary conditions.
1t is an inflammation of the membranes
of the spinal cord and of the BRAIN
and is accompanied by terrible head
aches and pains in different parts of
the body. Young, healthy persons
are more liable to it than any other
class, ans it attacks male and female
alike. The disease is accompanied by
a breaking out of purple blotches all
over the body. and for this reason is
sometimes called purpuric fever. There
is no known cure for the disease. and
nine out of ten persons attacked die
in "A hours, and sometimes in third
Of that time. II one does happen to
recover, he is left deaf or blind, or
afflicted in such way that it would
have been better If he had died.
.The sanitary conditions in Skagway
arc very bad. There is no drainage
whatever, all slops. ETC.. being thrown
ON the ground The water is very bad.
as the creeks are full of dead horses
by the hundreds Then the cold wealth
err compels the inhabitants to keep all
the windows tightly closed. shutting
out all ventilation and adding TO the
general bad health 1t is a very ter
rible thing. and nothing on earth could
induce me to attempt TO do any BUSH
ness in the town. While it is probably
not contagious. the conditions that give
II TO one person win give it to another
, lust as WELL
There is no donbt that the cold Of
the Alaska climate renders men easier
prey tos the disease
Up to the latter part of January the
winter. from the Arctic ocean to the
Mexican line. had been exceedingly
mild. Since then the Alaska const has
been constantly swept by icy gales,
which have been destructive alike to
lif and property. During this period
the Clara Nevada has been driven to
her destruction in the Lynn canal. the
Oregon has been blown ashore. other
vessels have had minor accidents. and
many people have died at Slagwny
and Dyea and on the mountain passes
leading ont OF those towns TO the Klon-
dixie gold fields
Strong indeed is the constitution that
escapes Ills in the northern regions
at this season of the year. Few OF
| the many thousands who have left Port
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truihfulIy say that they arrived at
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head. stiffness of the limbs. sore throat.
| .,acknehe. etc The long steamer trip
| not conducive to bodily comfort
seasickness is anything but pleasant.
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] northern rerions does more harm than
| good. Another reason is that the whisky
l nj commerce. considered as n tffmuiauf
| or as n medicine. Is pure rot and is OF
! NO vaiue. Ono drink of Aiaskn whisky
viii make a man yearn for the return
I 81 his money: the second viii cause
him 10 tell All he knows TO anyone
| having time aud patience to listen 70
him. and the third will cause him TO
arm himself with a tomahnwk and 60
| ON a ,nurderous hunt for his wife's re.
ln.ions.
Fxposure 20 cold in Alaska es-
peciailv when men know what the re-
sult vii, be. Is due largely to careless
nes. Men will hug a rea-hot stove
| Tor hours and toast their shins to per
fec,iou and then venture into the icy
wind With the hat on the back OF she
head. the coat unbuisoned, or the necl.
~ TOW hoprs tbev rack their minds
20 Ard ON, why this cold In the head,
-, ,h;s ye.ln.~< and other ailment