The Grenada sentinel., 1899-05-06

ease OF congestion: 3 OF typhoid
fever; of paralysis: ) of bowel trouble;
! from prematurity: from old age.
OF the colored people / died of cons
sumption; | of bronchitis; OF heart
disease: 2 Of paralysis: of uterine
tumOr. OF nervous nrOs.ratiOn; > CT
dropsY: 8 OF slow fever: OF congts' ion,
OF ,eething; OF bowel trouble; of la
grippe; Of spasms; OF acute alcohol
ism; frozen: drowned: of worms;
of old age: from prematurity.
Comparing the deathrate TO the
number Of population, it amounts
to per cent. Many people liv-
ing abroad, and ignorant of the
fact, are pleased to style Grenada an
unhealthy place. | challenge any
town in the State to make better
showing than the above, taking the
number OF population, the number of
deaths, the causes OF deaths, theirages
last annual report we have had yellow
fever and smallpox in various portions
of the State, but 50 far, we have hee1
olest in escaping both.
Now few words as to vaccination.
Many people are opposed TO it; they
do not realize the good it may do. |
can offer nothing more convincing
than the following remarks of an emi-
nent physician, based It's they are. upon
actual facts:
"A thorough seto-house inspec-
tion, isolation and vaccination will soon
put a stop to the epidemic.
sk'JNb. tr,,}h h nhnnt ynnni n irp nr
Bizzozoziro, in a recent lecture deliver
ed at Rome, recalled striklnglv to his
audience the success uf vaccination in
Germany. He said Germany stands
alone in fulfilling in great measure
the demands of hygiene, having in con-
sequence of the calamitous smallpox
epidemic of lS70-71 enacted the law Of
1874. which makes vaccination ob!ga-
tory in the first year Of life. ana re
vaccination obligatory at the tenth
year. What was the result? With
population OF 5O.0OO,oo0, having in ISL
lost $4,000 lives by smallpox, she
found by her law of 1874 the mortality
diminished so rapidly that today the
disease numbers only ll6 victims
a year. These cases moreover occur
almost exclusively in towns on her
frontier. Il IT, were not true that a
good vaccinH,ion does rr protect from
smallpox, We oGnbt to H.. in sma' Nov
epidemics hat ne dia.,:.sr 0itfusvs it,
self in the wall vGccln9te" 10 less thar
in non-vaccinHi.d countries. But it is
not so. In l'7O.I], dNrr. the t'rnnco-
German war, the Two people intcrpene-
trated each other, tho German having
its civil population vAccinated optional
ly. but its aruy completely vacclnated,
while the French population and
arm" alike) were vaccinated perfume
tOrily. Both were attacked by small
pox. Tho French army numbered 223.-
900 deaths by it, while the German had
only 27S, aud in the same tent aL..
breathing the same air, the French
wounded were heavily visited by the
disease, while the German wounded,
having been vaccinated, had not a sim
gle case. '"-Public Health Reports.
Having from time to time visited the
poor house and county Jail, find them
both in good sanitary condition and
very we'll kept. There has been but
one death at the poor house and the
inmates have been an average OF about
twelve all the time. In order to es
cape many avoidabe diseases, and in
order to prevent eye diseases, I again
urge your honorable body to look more
after the construction of school houses
in the county, especially in regard tc
ventilation, heat and l."lt, and COM
forlable and sensible seats. =
Respectfully submitted,
J. W. YOUNG, i.
Health Officer. y