| Show PERILS OF NATURE by DR SAMUEL 0 DIXON commissioner of health of pennsylvania our str streams bams once undefiled by man ran from the mountains to the sea in all of natures purity they ran ill through rough our valleys r and meadows in all their pristine beauty and offered to all animate nature that which would innocently quench the thirst of man and beast rind and help them live today it Is not so in ili that with which n nature i has endowed much of bur territory more richly than many other countr countries I 1 es we now find lurking poison so hidden that in some cases it Is to he seen only by the aid of the microscope in the season when we travel through gh atil the e country to be happy and 7 lay up tup energy I 1 and strength for the toll of the coming winter thewalt the want of intelligence and care makes us deaf to the tha te teaching aching of preventive medic medicine lne and we quench our r thirst at the stream we run across reg regardless artiles s of its purity and often the atie sparkling tumbler of water la Is only to be compared with the draught of the deadly hemlock the parched lips have been moistened und and the thirst satala but the day of judgment too often comes bringing the development of typhoid fever which in years past anve we could only compare with some of the plagues that ravaged our ancient cities those of us who collect tabulate arid have ever before us the lex that show them the and sorrow that still continue from typhoid fever beg you to awaken to that which causes so 80 much distress by proper care it can be avoided never drink put gut of an unknown nL surface stream when traveling see that pure water Is carried along as aa well as food otherwise the harvest of oc sickness and death will follow |
