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appexdix. 181) [From C. J. M.] To the Editor of the News and Courier:—I have been reading with much interest the articles which have appeared lately in the Nezus a7id Coiirie}' on the subject of drinking water and malaria. My experience with driven pumps in the river bottoms may be of interest. In 1884 I bought a river place to go into the stock business, and as it was necessary to be on the place I moved into the swamp. My friends all advised against it and predicted that I would not be able to live there. I put down a driven pump twenty-five or thirty feet and for five years lived on the place, winter and summer, and enjoyed the very best of health the whole time, and now my friends say that I have exploded the idea of river bottoms being unhealthy. It is impossible to get pure water from a well anywhere, but particularly in the swamps; but with driven pumps it can be obtained in any locality, and that renders the bottom lands of the Pee Dee river perfectly healthy. - ^ C. J. M. Mont Clare, S. C., February 7, 1S95. [From Mr. Kmersou.] -K- -K- We have lying around ns a rich and fertile country whicli is practically uninhabited. Why? Simply because the cry is, ''Do not go into the country; if you do you will die of country fever I'' The result is that strangers coming into the city do not dare be caught outside its limits after sundown for fear of catching some dreadful disease that will kill them in a few hours or days. During the last four years I have spent quite a number of nights traveling all night through the swamps and sickly sections of Berkeley county during the months of June, Juh% August and September for the purpose of deciding the question in my own mind whether the air had anything to do with the fever or not. Others have tried the experiment with me and none of them have had any symptoms of malaria. Not only myself and wife, but my brother and his wife and two children have slept all through the summer months with all windows open, and a free circulation of air passing through our sleeping apartments. I have exposed myself to all kinds of weather, have been out before day in the bushes and tall grasses, and have been soaked through from dews every morning during the hot season. I have had my Northern friends spend from a week to two mouths with me during the hot season, and in no case have they shown any symptoms of malaria. As regards the air arising from the swamps one of so-called healthy places is nearer to swamps and stagnant water than my place is. I would not for the whole of Berkeley county spend a summer in any one of the places he mentioned and drink the surface water there. A look at the residents is sufiicient. It is easy to see that the germ is doing its work, not to such an extent as it would if they lived on the plantation, because
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-01: Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Health [1879-1908] |
Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Heath [1879-1908] |
Subject Name | North Carolina. State Board of Health -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina. |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : News & Observer, 1881-1909. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
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Date | 1893-1894 |
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Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Heath [1879-1908] |
Subject Name | North Carolina. State Board of Health -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina. |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : News & Observer, 1881-1909. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1893-1894 |
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Volume Number | 5 |
Page Number | 219 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | appexdix. 181) [From C. J. M.] To the Editor of the News and Courier:—I have been reading with much interest the articles which have appeared lately in the Nezus a7id Coiirie}' on the subject of drinking water and malaria. My experience with driven pumps in the river bottoms may be of interest. In 1884 I bought a river place to go into the stock business, and as it was necessary to be on the place I moved into the swamp. My friends all advised against it and predicted that I would not be able to live there. I put down a driven pump twenty-five or thirty feet and for five years lived on the place, winter and summer, and enjoyed the very best of health the whole time, and now my friends say that I have exploded the idea of river bottoms being unhealthy. It is impossible to get pure water from a well anywhere, but particularly in the swamps; but with driven pumps it can be obtained in any locality, and that renders the bottom lands of the Pee Dee river perfectly healthy. - ^ C. J. M. Mont Clare, S. C., February 7, 1S95. [From Mr. Kmersou.] -K- -K- We have lying around ns a rich and fertile country whicli is practically uninhabited. Why? Simply because the cry is, ''Do not go into the country; if you do you will die of country fever I'' The result is that strangers coming into the city do not dare be caught outside its limits after sundown for fear of catching some dreadful disease that will kill them in a few hours or days. During the last four years I have spent quite a number of nights traveling all night through the swamps and sickly sections of Berkeley county during the months of June, Juh% August and September for the purpose of deciding the question in my own mind whether the air had anything to do with the fever or not. Others have tried the experiment with me and none of them have had any symptoms of malaria. Not only myself and wife, but my brother and his wife and two children have slept all through the summer months with all windows open, and a free circulation of air passing through our sleeping apartments. I have exposed myself to all kinds of weather, have been out before day in the bushes and tall grasses, and have been soaked through from dews every morning during the hot season. I have had my Northern friends spend from a week to two mouths with me during the hot season, and in no case have they shown any symptoms of malaria. As regards the air arising from the swamps one of so-called healthy places is nearer to swamps and stagnant water than my place is. I would not for the whole of Berkeley county spend a summer in any one of the places he mentioned and drink the surface water there. A look at the residents is sufiicient. It is easy to see that the germ is doing its work, not to such an extent as it would if they lived on the plantation, because |
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Article Title | Drinking Water in its Relation to Malarial Diseases |
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