The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-08-06

ture should conform substantially as
to bacterial purity to drinking wa
ter standard. It is not practicable
to maintain so high standard at any
part Of the harbor north of the Mar
rows or in the Arthur Kill. In the
lower bay and elsewhere bathing and
the taking of shell fish cannot be
considered free from danger of dis
ease within q mile of the sewer out
fall.
It states, however, that local condi-
tons may modify these provisions. A
standard of this kind would be ideal
and certainly safe but rather stag
gering to those accustomed to battle
In diluted sewage. 1t is a matter
of common notice for doctors to note
the higher percentage of furnucles,
etc, among the class of the un-
washed.
There is an article by Soper in the
Journal of the American Public
Health Association, Vol. ", No. IL,
1914, entitled, "a Rational Basis for
the Sanitation Of the Rivers and
Harbors." There is also reference
in this Journal on pages ITO and
I'LL in which you find the following:
Putting stop to Bathing in Sew
age" This applies to public bath
ing places and especially to tanks
and swimming pools. These people
go to the extent of requiring that
no person with a, communicable dis
ease shall be allowed to battle in a
public swimming pool and also that
persons going in be required to take
shower bath before entering the
pool. On page 1119 it gtates that the
water used in swimming pools should
be pure and that patrons battle nude
or with clean clothing. In so far as
Bayview. is concerned 1t is evident
that it makes very little difference
whether persons clothing is clean
or not so far as any further con-
tanination of that water is concerned.
It seems to have reached very high
degree Of impurity.
In this same Journal, Vol. Lv, No.
II, there is an article by j. F. Nor
ton, Phi. D., of the Massachusetts, In
stitute of Technology, on swimming
pools in which he claims that both
external and internal Infections have
been traced beyond a doubt to bath
ing or swimming in polluted waters.
He compares the danger of bathing
in polluted water with the drinking
of polluted water. He claims it is
impossible to avoid swallowing a GER
tain amount of water by those who
battle.
In American Medicine, Vol. LII,
page 318, a claim is made that pub
lie bathing causes diseases. One hun
dred cases of conjunctivitis is charged
to public bathing. There are other
references in this Journal.
In the Medical Record, voL 70,
June 10, 1911, reference is made to
the danger from discharge of urine
or feces into bathing waters. In the
March number of the Medical Record
there is a reference to the refusal
of the health department of New
York to approve of the location of
the floating baths off Manhattan on
account of sewage pollution and the
danger of typhoid.
In Gesundheit, Vol. "a, No. 4, 1909
Schrammer-Koln refer to skin ex-
anthema, eye trouble ano typhoid be-
ing contracted from sewage polluted
waters. They require a shower bath
with soap before allowing persons to
enter the swimming pools. If the
bacterial count in these pools ap-
proaches 10000 the water must be
changed. In German publications
which deal with bathing places, es.
pecially the following: Veroffentli
chungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft
| fur volksbader, 1s04-o6, Vol. III
page 394, Czaplewski says many
cases of typhoid have been traced tx
sewage polluted bathing places. Chol
era may be contracted in this way
| He cites an instance of woman WHIT
tried to drown herself in the Rhein
She was rescued and ten days aftel
this developed typical case of ty
phoid.
In the same publication for 10000
No. 2, reference is made 70 contagiol
and public baths on pages 2S7 ant
, 23S. Granular disease of the eye Ii,
and typhoid are traced to contami
; mated public baths. They even CLAIM
. that gonococci may be carried to tn
/ eye in these bathing places. On pag
. 260 they speak of the danger o
, splitting and urinating in the bathin,
: waters and of the danger from syph
little and tubercular patients in thes
waters. In their reference to the OBJ
: ject of bathing they give the follow
ing line, page 2s7, "He who battle
regularly obtains health and life.
Then again on page 297, Healthy
Cleanliness is only obtained by bath
: ing"
In spite of the lack of epidemiolog
zeal data of diseases contracted as
. result Of bathing in the Bayou Texa
/ it is neither wise nor proper for tn
State Board of Health to assure tn
people of Pensacola that bathing i