The Penn's Grove record., 1916-07-28
PennS Grove Continues To Have An
Extraordinary Good Health Record

that BennS Grove is not only a healthy
place in which to live, but is Il health re-
sort. Notwithstanding the visible condi-
tons which appear unsanitary to some.
Last January and February there
were ten cases of ~roseola. OF the two
cases of typhoid fever one was con-
traeted in Pennsylvania. Only three
mild cases of measles in six months,
The one death from tuberculosis was
thai of IL person who came from Phila-
delphia and died in Penns Grove. One
case of typhoid malaria in June caused
ii death ON July LIST.
The number of cases of contagious
diseases in Penns Grove during the past
year and Il half, with Il cosmopolitan
population living under abnormal con-
gested conditions has amazed those who
came here and saw visible conditions
under which sickness and death had oc-
Cured elsewhere. The fears of the old
natives were never aroused and the
fears of the newcomers has been al
layed by several gaining in flesh from
% to 30 pounds. James Clark. the
keeper of "a restaurant ON Main street
has gained fifty pounds in a year and
a half. John 7. Mccain, who came from
Chester last December and keeps the
Little Hotel DUPONT" at Main street
crossing, has gained fifty pounds. He
weighs over 200 and continues to grow.
He is getting so big that he has to go
into the Little Dump sidewise and lives
outside most of the time with a boy at
tending to business inside. And there
are others.
All who desire to grow fat and rich
come to Penns Grove. Smokeless pow
der is making the men fat and rich and
powder puffs make the girls pretty.
They both go arm in arm in the land
of PennS Grove where the Grove with
Natures music sings and every breeze
brings health upon its wings.
In six months the deaths were 81. be-
tween the following ages: l to ). Is; 10
to 20. =; 20 to 80. f.; 30 to 40. 3; 40 to
30. ); % to go. 6; go to 40. 6; 40 to
so, G..
The causes of deaths were as fol-
lows; accidents. 3; pneumonia, II: par
alysis. .; at birth. ); meningitis. 1; can
Ger, /; heart. ,; bloodpoisoning, l; apo
plexy, 6; hemorrhage, 2; murder, 2; kid
ney disease. ,; acute rheumatism. /; di-
arrhea. /; locomotor ataxia. L; tuber-
c~ulosis, /; gastritis. 1; drowning, 1.
The highest death rate was with
young children. In other ages most
deaths were over 30 years. And all
Drink water good, drink water bad,
Both from well and rain.
Most live here to good old age
Without microbes on the brain.
MOSQUITOES AND MALARIA
The mosquitoes are now somewhat
pestiferous. Mosquitoes carry yellow
fever and malaria. Yellow fever never
prevailed in this region but malaria used
to be common in the spring and autumn
until about forty years ago.
About 1743 the Swedish historian,
Acrelius. visited New Sweden, by which
name the settlement of the Swedes in
1888 along the Delaware was known
for over a hundred years. He made a
record that the people were pale and
sickly. subject to chills and fevers.
Persons over forty years of age remem-
Der how the protocol parasite made
them tremble, as if possessed by an
evil spirit, which they were.
The digging of Penns Neck Canal in
1S71-2, made better drainage with ebb
and Hood tides along the upper end of
Salem creek. Farmers drained all the
permanent ponds by bitches or tile, so
that stagnate ponds ceased to exist.
Drying up of the ponds where sunshine
got to the bottom may have been the
cause of the banishment of chills and
fevers in this region. where a person
expected to suffer unless a bitter dose
of crude %quinine powder covered with a
scraped apple or jelly. filling a teaspoon.
was not taken without a gag or a spew
that seemed as bad as the disease.
Undoubtedly both the drainage and qui-
nine exterminated most of the malaria
(which means bad air) but was found
by a French army surgeon. Laveran, in
1880. to be a parasite, belonging to the
lower animal kingdom
If. as some believe. a person caught
yellow fever or malaria every time they
were bitten by a mosquito all would have
been lead in this region. The exter-
mination of the mosquito to avoid the
bite of the pest is a wise act and should
be encouraged, but the zeal which some
nave to eXterminate it as a carrier of
malaria, manifests that there are more
mental microbes in some than there are
in the mosquitoes.
While the general health of Penns
Grove citizens is amazingly good under
present living conditions there should
be increased zeal in improving the SAM
tary conditions of the Borough to make
it more pleasing to the eyes and more
pleasing to a higher condition of living
Why most are healthy in this region
may be because they nave so much exer-
else by work that the microbes cannot
NJ x~-A IAH-1An . n We
Better to hunt infield for health I'M
bought,
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous
draught.
The wise for cure ON exercise depend
God never made his work for men tC
mend"