Show AND AD SANITATION To the Editor of The Herald My attention has been n called to a let letter letter letter ter in 8 issue of or The Herald signed ned s1 by b Reader the statements in which make it apparent that one of the chie purposes of the public health Malth bulletin prepared by the undersigned has mis miscarried miscarried miscarried carried by hy reason of having at hand only the Ensile English language e through which to express himself It was the Intention to correct a common misapprehension lon by bym making m clear the real cause cau e of contagious diseases and aDd incidentally the relation thereto borne by filth and other unsent unsanitary un tary conditions In order that preventive measures might be intelligently em employed employed employed After having stated as u quoted by bythe bythe the correspondent that these diseases are caused by specific poisonous germs which have their sole BOle origin in a pre pee previous case of the disease It must be strictly borne in ia mind that they cannot be generated or produced by any other agency The article further states that Unsanitary conditions favor the growth and development of any disease germs which may stay tad And lodgment therein and thus promote the spread read of disease therefore strict cleanliness inside and outside should be maintained etc These words are construed by the corre nt to mean that there is no eon con connection section between unsanitary conditions and contagious disease and they need not noC be removed or abated He also attacks attack the correctness of the origin assigned to the diseases holding that they th y are pro produced produced by decaying garbage In dosing cl he requests further information and an another another another other attempt will wUl be made to furnish it itIn ItIn Itin In view of or the importance of the sub subject subJect subject In the first place notwithstanding ing the correspondents assertion a to the contrary there to is no tact fact better established in medical science than that con contagious contagious and infectious diseases these In Including Including chiding typhoid fever and consumption have haTe their origin as above stated and when he ho asserts that they tit are caused canoed by b decaying garbage he is simply mis mistaken mistaken taken as he will I discover di upon On u investigating investigating gating the th subject sub t I This by no means mean implies that decay decaying log big garbage should uld not be kept carefully removed and destroyed On the contrary it is of the Ute utmost t importance Like Uke seeds se s of plants millions of epro germs germa are scattered that do not lodge in a place favorable to their growth Under these circumstances they remain and die destroyed de troYed by bythe bythe the Ute oxygen of the air or otherwise e Those which by chance find lodgment lod pt in ina l la ina a person pentOn who is susceptible or in de decomposing decompo decomposing composing compo organic matter continue to live JIve and propagate their kind the die dis disease ease in each case e being liable to further spread unless measures b be taken to pre pro prevent prevent vent Hence the necessity ity fer fur both pre pee preventing venting the escape of the infective or organisms by b strict quarantine and the careful removal of all an unsanitary mate material material materio rial rio that could serve to harbor them T B BEATTY Salt Lake Nov 5 25 |