The Present Hot Weather.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 165, 7 January 1873, Page 7

The Present Hot Weather.

TYPHOID FEVEtt, " The time is coming," says a distinguished physician, " when it will be as disgraceful to have typhoid fever as it is to have lice or the itch." Everybody ought to know that fearful sickness is directly caused by taking into the body excrementitious matters. These almost always declare their presence to the olfactory nerve, and the instant they are delected measures should be taken for their suppression. Fresh earth is a complete disinfectant, and in the country the cheapest. Next to this is copperas water. Let it be sprinkled about drains and sewers, left standing in shallow earthen dishes in sick rooms, and all unpleasant odours will be quenched. Care should be taken in using it not to touch any garment that will receive stain. Limn and plaster of Paris are excellent absorbents, carbolic acid and chloride of lime will sweeten the foulest gutter. With one of these resources at command, there is no excuse for vile odours. Coffee is a deodorizer, but not a disinfectant. A handful, parched and ground, when thrown on a hot shovel, will quickly remove disagreeable smells, but will not neutralise their poison. Great care should be taken, especially during hot weather, as to the water one drinks. A very few years since, a pic-nic party found some very cool, clear, and fine-tasting water in an old well near their lunch ground. Most of them drank freely of this water. Every one of them was prostrated by typhoid fever, and only two or three recovered. On investigation the skeleton of a lamb was found at the bottom of the well. All surface-water should be carefully abstained from, and assurances made that no sewerage contaminates the cooling draught. Sleeping rooms should be aired daily, bed and body linen changed frequently, and the sun permitted to search and cleanse those apartments in daily use. No pit or sink, holes or open drains, should be permitted around our dwellings, for deadly arc the subtle emanations that rise from them.—From the New York Tribune.