Glasgow Courier. — 1847-06-12 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

TYPHUS FEVER. The following useful practical suggestions are in circulation amongst the poor and working classes : Ckaera/ Rule —TEMPERANCE, CLEANLINESS, and BREATHING Puna AIR, are three of the surest means of securing health, and preventing attacks of Typhus Fever, or any other disease. _ _  I. Very often open the window of a room, and at the same time the door, and let the air go through. You need not sit in the draught, that is dangerous. The windows of common stairs and passages should always be half open. Is this the case in yours? 2. on getting up in the morning, air the room well in the way just mentioned; let the draught of air pass through the bed or beds for at lent half an hour before they are made up. Making up a warm or ill-aired bed will itself produce disease. Hang the blankets before the fire every now and then. Keep bed, bedding, and bedstead as clean as possible. 3. If possible, never wear in the day the shirt or shift you sleep in. Air both well, when taken off, in the air draught. Never wear them more than a week.  4. On getting out of bed, dip a sponge or towel in water, and give a rapid wash with it to the whole body, rubbing it dry with a hard rough towel. Cold water is best, but warm water may be used, if cold is dislikcd. Accustom your children not to be afraid of the cold water sponge. They will come to like it, and to apply it themselves. If your employment is dirty, wash at night also. Wash your children all over every night, and, at least, their faces, hands, and necks, every morning. . .  6. Sweep out your rooms, passages, and stairs, every day, and wash them once a-week. Whitewash at least twice a-year. The trouble and expense are nothing compared with the great benefit to your health. 6. Do all you can to avoid hanging your washings to dry in the rooms you live in. Nothing is more dangerous to health. Soapsuds, foul water, and filth, should be removed from the room without delay. _ . . . .  7. Use as inuch water in the house as you possibly can. Carrying it in is laborious, but the labour will be well repaid in health and comfort. The time is at hand when every house, however humble, will have its own water-tap, always giving water, so that no cistern or water vessels will be needed. _ _  8. Never live on poor food, that you may save the money for drink. Simple directions for thrifty and good cooking will soon be sent to you. Strive to learn the best ways in the meantime from neighbours who can cook well. :0. Lose no opportunity of walking and t ,klng exercise in the Open sir, 10. When typhus fever, small-pox, or scarlet fever, Is in your house, be sure to keep the rooms well aired, and separate as much eti you can the healthy part of the family from those who are ill. Do not enter your neighbours houses, or allow idle gossipers to eome into yours; and do not go to church or meetings, or send your children to school. You thus prevent the spread of the .tjjeease. Carelessness in these things, cc know, Is one great cause Of fever spreading amongst the poor. . 11. Never, unless duty calls, go into a house where there is lease; and, when you are obliged to do so, never enter fasting, ehen warm with walking; avoid the patient's breath, and stay short a time as possible. 12. Whether the patient dies or recovers, be sure to wash most - ally every article of clothes or bedding he has used. Get a attic orsolution of chloride of lime from a druggist; often sprinkle the ed and floor with it, and keep a plate of it on the floor. Do ;Ilkie your power to avoid keeping the dead in the same room with the living; never have any "walte;"and bury without delay. Lastly, Take a very serious thought on the subject of whisky —the grand source of poverty, want, and disease—the grand destroyer of health, of morals, of character' of home, of comfort, and peace. Ask yourselves this question —ls the enjoyment of the dram or the tumbler a good bargain for the loss of all these? Sensible men are taking this thought. Many a young man is resolving to have done with drinking, and enjoy life really, which no one does olio drinks. Ile lives a wretched life; and mark this, he must for ever continue poor. No drinker ever arises above the lowe,t poverty, Mark this, too, typhus fever finds out the drunkard and fastens on him.  baielro vilott e o íó yo  We earnestly entreat you to comply to the utmost of your power with these simple rules. Use the means God gives you. Make no excuse about want of time and opportunity. Show that you will do all you can for yourselves, and depend upon it otheis will ald you. But while you obstinately refuse to keep your houses and your persons clean, you cannot expect your fellow-creatures to go near you, risking health and life itself in the vain attempt to help those who will not help themselves. Begin, then, this very '-st, to clean yourselves, your clothes, and your houses, and let air in by every door and window.  Monte Video.—A vessel which left Monte Video on March 23 has arrived at Havre, bringing a Copy of the following decree posted up by Oribe, ana which is evidently directed against the French ships, as they, for a long time, have carried on almost exclusively the commerce of that place : i4Shall be considered as pirates, and, as each, be immediately put to death, every master, captain, or other person, of whatever nation he niny be, who shall be -detected in the exportation of cattle, or any other produce of the country, unless they shall have obtained from us a licence to carry on such trade or dealing." Our letter from Badajos of the 30th ult, mentions that the division of the Spanish army stationed on that part of the Portuguese frontier was to oveupy Yelves and Estremos, and to lay siege to Evora, which was garrisoned by the insurgents. Another division was to outer Portugal from Andalusia and operate in the Algarvem. Little or no resistance was expected. Suicide of Captain Green—The body of Green, the captain of the Era steam-boat, who committed suicide on Friday last, was found at an early hour on Monday morning, near the stairs of Blackfriars-bridge. The unfortunate man had on only a shirt, belt, and a pair of stookings. To accomplish his object ot self-destruction he had tied round his cock a large Paving stone.