| Show PROTEST THE DUST the poor sprinkling a menace to health flying dust may cause an epidemic which will cause more lives than the var more fatal than the spaniards the following communication from a prominent physician ia of import because it touches upon a vital question i e the health of the community the rain last night laid the dust for a time but in a day or to tag old conditions will obtain unless come effort is made by the sprinklers lers to cover tory aug I 1 wish today to call your attention to the dusty condition of the streets of oden city some are borbe than others I 1 do not think that the middle of twenty fourth from washington ave west lo 10 tha railroad has been sprinkled this summer the same with grant ave from twenty first to twenty fourth where much beavy teaming is done the dust is wafred wafted by the wind leaving holes hero and there and thus injuring the roads leaving them rough and uneven which must bo repaired sooner or later and will cost more than to properly sprinkle the streets if this condition continues until we have a rainfall sufficient to lay lie dust I 1 would not ba surprised if we had more sickness this comicz autumn than was ever known in this city the floating dust in the air frequently carries the germs ot disease consider the slaughter which has hitherto followed that ot the battlefield when these bacterial destroy eia are let cooee often producing a mortality far greater than the battle itself in times of epidemic diseases the earns floating matter has frequently if not always mingled with it the special cerms perms which produce the epidemic being thus enabled to eow pestilence and death over nations and continents consider all this and you will come with me to the conclusion that all the havoc of war ten times multiplied would be evanescent it compared to the ravages doe to atmospheric dust much of this can be mitigated by properly pre perly cleaning and sprinkling the streets and would add greatly to the comfort of this community H J M D |
