The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-10-21

more dense their numbers diminish
so that at a depth of from three to
five feet below the surface they will
have disappeared. AS long as the
rolume of work which hey habe
to do is supplied from the sur
| face above and in not too great
amounts and at such intervals as
will permit the soil to dry out and
become recreated during the inter
mission, they do their work beauti-
fully. If a hole is dug into the
ground extending below the range of
their activities and sewage turned
| into it, or if the effete matter is APP
piled to the surface more or less con-
tinuously and in such amounts as to
cause the soil to become mirel
stagnation results and our little
army is banished and pollution en-
tiers strata below. Under such cox
ditions surface impurities have been
traced hundred feet away through
the soil beneath.
ut is apparent to you then, that we
should secure our water from some
distance below the surface and that
the area above, the drainage or
catchment area as it is called, aust
be kept free from the products OF
human waste.
Open or dug wells are not regard
ed as safe propositions since they
permit the ingress of surface water.
which as you know is a dan arous
water. The site of the well should
, be of such elevation as to cause all
surface water to drain away from it.,
and such sources of pollution as
those previously enumerated should
he down the hill as it were ami not
nearer than two hundred feet.
The pipe, whether it is put down
to a shallow or greater depth should
butt closely in the joints SO as to
make it water tight and proven.
water from seeping in The surface
ground about the pump should be
| covered with a cement to prevent
pools of standing water or a mirey
! condition of the soil.
Despite the wonderful advances
made by sanitary science in the de-
termination of the cause of commune
| In nd h. I,
which it is spread, the mass OF the
population remain in ignorance OF
the danger to life and health which
results from the careless disposal of
the discharges from the human body.
After a great many years of needless
| sacrifice at the affairs of false
theories and broken down opinions,
we have at last grasped the truth,
that with the exception of those
troubles distributed by the bite OF
insects, that the cassitive organism
of those diseases which are catching
are shed off in the DISCHARGES Of tho
patient and by getting in the bodies
of others produces an attack OF the
same disease.
! From the nose and the mouth come
the germs of almost all of the dis
cases of childhood-mumps, measels
dihptheria, scarlet fever, whoopins
ough, pneumonia, infantile paraly
sis and that captain of the hosts OF
death consumption Meningitis
grippe and colds are also due to or
eanisms which are thrown off IN the
Another class is caused by tbs
liberation of finet scales of epitEe,
lium from the surface of the diseased
part of the body. The most noted ex.
ample of which is smallpox.
The excepted ones are those which
are transmitted by the bite of certain
insects which must first bite some
one suffering from disease in ques
ton and after definite period has
elapsed bite healthy individual. II
this way the cassitive principle i
injected into the body, producing
again an attack of the origina! i'll
ness. Examples of this method Is tn,
transmission of yellow fever ana ma
ia by the bites Of different specie
of malaria
| Again when pus, corruption, or tn,
excretion from a boil or specifi,
sore is rubbed on the skin of thu
same or different individuals it pro
duces other boils or sores in the sam,
way.
The last group is caused by TIL,
discharges from the bowels an,
bladder, and as in general the dis
eases affecting the organs of TIL
head. neck and chest are caused b,
the discharges from the nose an,
mouth. so are the diseases affertin;
the abdominal organs caused by tn
alhinc discharges. This list include
phoid fever, amspic. Cochin-Chin
and bacillary dysentaries. cholera
hookworms and lar!e number y
parasitic intestinal troubles
u is apparent to YOU then, that