The Penn's Grove record., 1915-07-23
A0st Die Of Old Age In Penns Grove
NO Bad Results From Alleged Un-
sanitary Conditions Proves a
Useless Scare

we are living in an age of microbea-
phobia. "The Old Oaken Bucket That
Hung in the WE'LL" would kill all the
people OF the present day, if our modern
scieutists and health officers are to be be-
Yet, our forefathers were sound and
healthy and thrived before the numer-
GUS Dacilll were invented or discovered.
In TACT, microbes we're the food on
which they thriyed and the same is
largely true to-day. There are various
Kinds OF microbes-benevolent and mall
ignant.
The Infamous reports written by space
writers who come to Penns Grove and
nho lew startling facts, also the report
by the State Board of Health
authorities would make people believe
ttat Penns Grove is al unfit place to live
IN. II such bad results follow the al
ieged bad u~nsanitary conditions as health
of1cials would make us believe, then
Doctors and Undertakers should be get
ting rich. and graveyards should be en-
larged in Penns Grove.
What are the results?
We have interviewed the doctors and
learn that they have attended very few
cases OF malaria. The four will not aver.
age one cese a month.
Malaria is presumed to be caused by
mosquitoes carrying the microbe. Ii there
Ne 1883 pools Of water where mosquitoes
breed there is supposed to be fewer mos
qultos, less malaria.
freventable diseases caused by bad
sanitation are smallpox, scarlet fever,
typnold lever diphtheria and dysentery.
Ihe hot weather is now here when dys- 1
EMERY and typhoid is presumed to be
prevalent, yet no one is seriously ill in
Penns Grove. Since January l there
have been only four cases of typhoid.
One was an isolated case at the Cove,
where the home is on q Quarter-acre lot.
another was a powder workman, who
must have gotten the germ elsewhere, be-
cause the family was not infected. They
were contracted last winter. Two others
were not in Penns Grove two weeks, con- |
sequently did not contract the disease
here.
{. There has been no smallpox, nor scar
let lever, nor diphtheria in Penns Grove
for years.
There are, or have been, intestinal dis
Eases at the dupont Villas. There was
one death two weeks ago. The Villas
are supplied with water from Willard
Layton's farm, three miles from Penns
Grove. Sewerage was installed by the
DUPONT Company's sanitary engineers.
Yet there has been more summer ILL
ness at the Villas than in Penns Grove,
with no sewerage.
Powder making is All extra hazardous
business. When about $4,000 are EN-
ployed and with such an infamous re-
port Oh sanitation, doctors and under
takers should be getting rich OH deaths.
POWDER KILLED 2; OLD AGE 81.
Only two explosions in a year have
proved fatal, and these were thru care
lessness. Since August l, 1914, forty-one
deaths have occurred. These deaths have
been bet Geen the following ages: One
to 5 years, 5 deaths: 5 TO 10. /; % to 80,
4; 80 to 35, 3; IS to 40, l; 40 to As, 2, so
to 55, 2; 55 to TO, 2; total up to go years
of age, 20. The deaths from explosions
are not included because they did not
take place in Penns Grove.
The old persons who died are as fol-
lows: Between go and IS years, l; 60 to
20, 4; 20 to rs, 6; rs to 80, 6; 80 to IS, 3;
at So, ]; total over 80 years of age, 81.
The oldest person buried in Penns
Grove died some years ago at 10l.
Doctors make a living largely by at
tending child births and making out GER
t~ificates OF old-aee deaths.
A second undertaken settled in Penns
Grove less than a year ago, thinking
there would be a big business near a
powder factory. Both undertakers are
running Jitneys to exc out a living, be-
cause deaths from powder explosions and
unsanitary, p%reventabie diseases does not
urnish two undertRkers a living DULY
eight lots have been sold in two ceme- /
cries within a year.
Those who come to Penns Grove and
find such unsanitaTy conditions rs to be
scared, should keep out or move out.
The old natives die mostly Of old age past
go years. II those who are scared of un-
sanitary conditions do not want to die OF 4
old age they will have to 60 elsewhere
Statistics prove it.
These are unusual war times which have
caused a temporary congestion of people
in Penns Grove and surrounding region
to make powder, the same as temporary
concessions are in European countries.
Considering the Inconvenience and the (
large number, the health of the people |
may be considered extraordinarily good.
Where is there a town with the con-
gested population of Penns Grove that |
can show a better health and smaller |
death records
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