| Show SANITARY AFFAIRS FAIR AND PIGS editor deseret bews yews V buos I 1 am pleased to learn that there is an ordinance relating to sanitary affairs now pending the consideration of our bending city council it to decidedly a timely measure and I 1 trust may be speedily enacted and enforced the season is close at hand when the heaps of filth that have accumulated during the winter months in most of the lots in this city will begin to ferment under the warming sun rays and thereby disseminate poisonous odors the air we breathe the polluting tol bodies of mer men women and children are at this time of the year extremely susceptible to because their systems are then generally clogged with impurities from the effects of hea hearty arty eating aul acl tte breathing athing the foul air of h heated and tightly closed houses and bedrooms the numerous carcasses of measly swine that have been devoured during the winter have doubtless I 1 as usually largely contributed towards rendering render iop human bodies ready to develop spring colds biliousness typhoid lever fever diphtheria and other diseases byall by all means let us have a good sanitary ordinance and an efficient board of health with energetic lea a ids IP to see that there is a general clea cleaning aing up before the filth heaps have a chance to start their deadly work among the other things that I 1 hope will be incorporated in this municipal law is that the dir dirty IR pigs and their will be included among the principal nuisances to be abated and abolished if there is one thing more pestilential than anthe another other and deserving the name of nal ance I 1 think ohp inhabited pig pen hould be accorded that foul odors easily discernible discernable discern able anywhere within lorty forty krods to tho the lex ward of a pigs domicile ought to be regarded dedas as strongly convincing evidence of the disease qualities pertaining thereto that biere are such things as clean and healthy pigs I 1 emphatically deny god has declared them unclean and oui our senses of sight and smell sustain the divine verdict A few moments proximity to the cleanest pig pen that can be found fouad anywhere naturally disgusts any person parson unaccustomed to the effluvium and as swine are usually kept even the keeper instinctively holds his breath when forced to go near to feed feece them why should nineteen of the residents orthis of this city be compelled to breathe the poisonous emanations from scrofulous pigs which the other one twentieth insist upon harboring read what dr E B foote says about swine in its his plain home talk one ot of the most common causes of blood impurities is the use of pork it has been said that all things were created for some wise purpose this is undoubtedly true but bul 1 bogs were never made to eat we read that christ used them to drown devils they can never be appropriated to a more beneficent use As an of diet pork exerts a most pern ious influence on the blood overloading overload log it with carbonic acid gas gaa and I 1 ing it with scrofula the hog is no 0 a healthy animal from its birth it is an inveterate vet erate and to satisfy its eternal cravings clavings cravi for food everything in field eld or gutter utter however filthy finds lodgment in its capacious stomach it eats filth and wallows in its filth and to is itself but a living mass of filth when therefore it is remembered that all our limbs and organs have been picked up from our plates that our bodies are made up of the things we have eaten what pork enter eater will felicitate licit ate himself with the reflection that according to physiological teachings he is physically part hog yours respectfully MAC |
