The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-30
DIR. SHUTS TALKS
Declares There's No Water
Like Hydrant Water.
SOME STARTLING FACTS
Salts in Hard Water Produce
Bone Tissue.
SOME STARTLING FACTS

The remarks of DR.. Jordan in the
Eagle in regard to water furnished the
people of this city causing sickness, has
brought out a good deal of discussion
knowing that DR.. Shuts has given this
matter a great deal of thought since he
has been a member of the board of health
he was asked yesterday TO give his opin-
ion on that matter.
is Wichita hydrant water injuring the
health of the people or causing them
TO die before their natural time?" he was
asked
Il presume you ask that because the
water here is hard said the doctor. 4
will give you my opinion and you can
form your own conclusions.
My opinions, however, are not orig
inai, but I have learned upon tsis sub
ject from writings and lectures of scien-
tine men. I wish 10 preface my answers
by stating that l believe in the existence
of a Divine Creator and believe that He
makes no mistakes. II he designed
that we should have distilled water. He
would not have difused the mineral salts
through water that is designed for the
consumption Of animal bodies and To fur
niSh tissue building material for the
bones. nerves. muscles, hair nails and
even the pigments for the hair and eyes.
/ have been a member of the board of
health through five administrations. 1
have been looked upon to a degree. as
a guardian Of the public health and feel
it necessary that the public should know
whether hydrant water kills or not.
I'm cremated human bodies we find as
a residue, phosphate of lime. iron, mag
nesia and soda We also find chloride
Of potash and soda, sulfates Of lime, soda
and potash, horide Of lime and pure silica,
This constitutes the inorganic salts of the
human body. They are all requisite to
produce nerve cells, muscle cells ana
bone cells TO compensate for the wear
Ing away Of these tissues. which must
be replenished perpetually.
For example. if a female after con-
ception. would abstain from the tissue
building elements that are obtained from
hard water and cereals, such as wheat.
oatmeal beans, etc, and continue until
parturition.~her offspring when it came
into the world, would be without bones
ait much as an angle worm. the child
existing on that mothers milk for the
first year and the mother continuing to
live without those salts so essential to
the human body. the child would neither
have bones nor teeth. Every farmers
wife understands how essential il is TO
feed her laying hens substance that win
produce these very elements, 10 produce
shells for the eggs when they are laid.
end for the nourishment for the chick
within. Without these salts it would be
impossible for a single individual to lead
healthy and happy life as they are as
essential as the oxygen contained in at
~ospheric air
Wichita We find people quite fire.
qyently who do not absorb and take up
as as much OF this tissue salt contained
in our drinking water they being per
sons who drink but little water They
become rheumatic and debilitated and go
10 Gueda or some other mineral spring
where the water is more strongly i'm
pregnated with these very salts and while
there they drink large quantities Of the
water; really. make a business of it.
drinking gallon or more of IT a day,
until they have saturated themselves
with these minerals ana frequently come
home vel
Did you ever notice that those very
people are not robust pictures of health?
Compare them. If you viii. with the
healthy farmer. with his Drawn and mus
Gle that are as hard almost as bone.
When he comes to the end OF his row Of
corn in warm weather for a rest. he will
not only drink one tin cup fun of this
hard water. but frequently three. You
do not hear Of him having diabetes of
gravel, but you VIII find him at his
work. Gravel is not caused from hard
water, but is caused by a chemical change
that takes place in the system.
The Creator has made wise provisions
for difusing these essential minerals
through the animal body as they are con
tanned TO a great degree in nearly every
substance that we eat. so that if we were
cut of from the mineral salts in water
that they might he supplied TO a degree
IN our food and. If condition favored we
could accumulate sufficient lime salts
from the food 10 produce gravel and -al
stones. If this depended upon the drink
Ing water alone a whole family would he
affected with the gravel or gan stones +
one member was. but we find whole
family living under the same roof. eating
the same food prepared by the same
cook and drinking water from the same
wen that the execretions urinary will
BE- acid in one and alkaline I'm another
showing plainly that these conditions are
changes that take place in the individual
as every Individual is a chemical labora-
tory.
'Duringsa past administration I was re-
ouested TO send sample Of our water
10 Chicago 20 be anaYzed. The report
was that II contained all Of the essential
salts in the risht proportons. OF more
than "A thousand analysis made. there
were no puEer water than our water that
is furnished Tor the public Of this city
and NOT one trace Of animal or vegetable
matter we found. When the wells that
furnish city water are driven through >
hej of thirty-six feet q pure sand every
drop OF water that could be filtered
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