The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-12

CONDITION

- hC tOdLuIOdy ENGnl0e
Post, March z, 1908, calls atten
ton to the fact that the habit o.
eating and drinking the excret.
OF our neighbors is not only ot
deadly effectiveness but a dis.
gracefully common occurrence.
His article deals, in a thorough
and scientific manner with the
avoidance of typhoid fever and
other diseases produced by sew
age and otherwise contaminat-
ed water or food. His assertion
that with proper and concerted
effort typhoid fever could be
stamped out of existence, is DOS
itIVely true, and his idea that it
would not require more than five
years to accomplish the result is
likewise true, provided of course
that the concerted effort be ap-
piled in every quarter and was
In every instance made in accor-
dance with scientific knowledge
on the subject.
Our people in this particular
locality are blessed in many
ways, and among the blessings
the most prominent is that we
have had no epidemic caused
from eating and drinking cur
own and other excreta. As far
as our observation has extended
there is no good reason why ey-
cry man, woman and child in the
neighborhood should not have
been dead from sewage water we |
are forced to use for all purpos-
es. One family will contend that |
The water used by them is PURE
because it comes from a we'll; |
'he well mentioned will be found |
20 be within few feet of the 8
Or 1 foot hole into which much
If the excrets of the family is
placed and as it (the welD is sew
'ral feet deeper aRd in loose sur
ace earth it is an excellent
Iraln for the outhouse. The
conditions of the soil, it's sur
ace arrangement, is such that
here is a magnificent drain pro-
luced naturally and bucket of
waste material thrown in a vault {
t upper end of town will ulti-
nately come into sombodies we'll. K
II go into Garden creek, or come
ut at the Spring at lower end of
own. Some more fortunate
amily may have the time to 90
o the Spring" after their ,
water, and by so doing l
how their suspicion of the or /
inary supply, but the water
rom that source has only drain
d a few hundred feet more of I
he cess pools that have been in
Sc for more than so years, 1 am 5
old. There is no question re-
arding the source of that :
pring, it comes very directly G
rom the creek, and the creek d
rains every yard and vault in @
own, and all wells. a
The depth of water in each !,
ell is governed by the condi- v
on of water in Garden creek. a
hen it is high SO also is the f
aterin each well. When irri- c
alton going on above town the
ell water is made muddy. Near
all of the vaults on Main
treet have long since been fill. -
to overfowing and the mater $
| thrown into them is simply "
lmped inside a small building &C
here there is not the slightest E
tempt made to prevent it from nj
ing carried by rain, irrigation Al
wind to any place such forces n
ould be likely to carry it. =
God has been kind to you here nj,
Ityour neglect and carelessness ~ ~
IL not always result in this con- n, II
ton of healthfulness and some pc
ne you will bitterly regret the as Is
sanitary conditions you per- mo n;
it to exist. l defy any scien- MS ItI'
ic man to give a rational ex- mo
anation as to why the commun. FIJI