Show MALARIA the alarming increase of malaria in provo calls for the earnest vigilance of all good citizens there ia no time for hesitation alio suggestions made by dr and pike at the session of the city council held on wednesday evening and which are found in our report of that blodys proceedings tibe where should be acted upon without delav to hesitate means death we have get to work and that too ceasing for the saving of our children and ourselves from the clutches of this disease tho gross misuse of the term malaria has given it n vague and uncertain signification the word embodies nevertheless so much truth that it will always leold nn important position in the vocabulary of daily life etymologically malaria means bad or unhealthy air it being taken from the italian mala bad and ana air or atmosphere its first use so far as literature shows was in regard to tho poisonous atmosphere which overhangs the roman campaign and which hai been so fatal for centuries to all who entered that district alie investigations of chemists and physicists showed that the unhealthful nature of air in malarial lands was due to two causes one the abnormally large percentage of carbonic acid ammonia and other gases and vapors resulting from tho decay of animal and vegetable matter and the other the enormous development of all forms of germ life especially those which prey upon the human organism and which either produce or intensify certain diseases where as in excavations malarial obtains science has limited its ravages by wholesale we have learned that many forms of vegetable life destroy malaria the sunflower watercress the mint and peppermint exert this invaluable influence and are used today to day in every part of the chantry where decaying organic matter once produced malarial diseases malarial poison acts in two ways on account of its double nature tho gaseous elements enter the system and pass into the blood making this impure and devitalized the germs force their way into the organization and either produce disease or else intensify the trouble as already occasioned by the deleterious gaseous elements in the preventing of malarial disease the only safeguard lies in the practical adoption and that too at once of the valuable made by the medical gentlemen who appeared before tho city council wednesday evening A person desiring the welfare of his fellows and the safety of liia family and himself should bear in mind these facts that all marshy land should be drained and when necessary disinfect cd that sunflowers sun flowers watercress mint and peppermint are the best hygienic ornaments to his yard garden or farm that his outhouse corral and hogpen should be thoroughly cleaned and as thoroughly treated with strong anti skeptics or deodorizers deodorize rs that all decaying organic matter should be destroyed that the rank weeda growing in the lot or on the sidewalk should be burned that the leaves falling from the trees should be gathered up and either buried or consumed that the well should be cleaned out at least once ft year that no stagnant water should be allowed to remain upon or near the premises that slops from the kitchen or other refuse should not be thrown anywhere that the low branches of trees should be removed and burned let each citizen bear ia mind these facts and in applying them we may soon hope to see a purer atmosphere than provo boasts of today to day |