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170 A IM*KM)1X. must he pure, and must bo kept pure. The drainage area of the supply must he kept under the closest supervision, and tl^e health authorities empowered to protect tlie many a.e^ainst the careless or wanton encroachments of the few. Next in importance tr) j)urity is abundance of water supply. It has been well said that the true test of civilization is the consumption of water for domestic purposes. Although custom sanctions the practice, it is manifestly unwise, as well as unjust, to levy a tax on water for domestic use, and, without money and without price to the owner, pour a hundred or a thousand times as much into a burning building. Such a tax bears unequally upon the people, and is, in the case of the very poor, prohibitory. The latter, if possible, avoid using the taxed water, and resort to suspicious, if not certainly polluted, private sources of supply, A revolution of the present system can hardly be brought about immediately, but such a reduction of charges as will enable even the poorest to make ample use of pure, wholesome welter is a sanitary necessity, and deserves the earnest consideration of town authorities everywhere. Sickness is impoverishment, health is wealth: and not only is the good name of a town injured, but the lives and health of tlie better classes are imperilled if filth diseases prevail among the poor. The introduction of a wholesome and abundant water supply into a town is simply a question of money—not what it costs to obtain, but what it costs to do without. The inhabitants of a town must be shortsighted indeed, if they hesitate at any outlay which will ])revent disease, increase their health and longevity, correspondingly augment their productive activity, and lessen their death-rate. Vienna, in one year, decreased her mortality by typhoid fever from 841 to 11 per 100,000 by introducing spring-water in place of that drawm from the Danube river, Baltimore, Brooklyn, Memphis and other American cities have done equally well. Ho\v long would it take such a saving of life and health to balance the cost of the most expensive water-works? Bad w^ater affords a valid pretext for the use of alcoholic liquors to prevent its poisonous effects. If our prohibition friends deprive the poor man of his tipple, they should certainly aid in providing Fomething more wholesome to supply its place. Apart from the encouragement and quasi-justification for the use of intoxicating beverages w-hich unwholesome water furnishes, it is an established fact that polluted water causes more deaths, more sickness, more sorrow, misery and destitution than all the stills in the State. Sanitation prescribes temperance in all things, and positive avoidance of morbific agencies. Compared to it, prohibition is a rush-light to the sun, an episode, a side-show to a great caravan. Sanitation once ^established as a governing principle in State and family, prohibition
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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. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1887-1888 |
Identifier | NCHH-01-002 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Volume Number | 2 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Fixed Title * | Page 170 |
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 | 1887-1888 |
Identifier | NCHH-01-002-0178 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; article |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 2 |
Page Number | 170 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 170 A IM*KM)1X. must he pure, and must bo kept pure. The drainage area of the supply must he kept under the closest supervision, and tl^e health authorities empowered to protect tlie many a.e^ainst the careless or wanton encroachments of the few. Next in importance tr) j)urity is abundance of water supply. It has been well said that the true test of civilization is the consumption of water for domestic purposes. Although custom sanctions the practice, it is manifestly unwise, as well as unjust, to levy a tax on water for domestic use, and, without money and without price to the owner, pour a hundred or a thousand times as much into a burning building. Such a tax bears unequally upon the people, and is, in the case of the very poor, prohibitory. The latter, if possible, avoid using the taxed water, and resort to suspicious, if not certainly polluted, private sources of supply, A revolution of the present system can hardly be brought about immediately, but such a reduction of charges as will enable even the poorest to make ample use of pure, wholesome welter is a sanitary necessity, and deserves the earnest consideration of town authorities everywhere. Sickness is impoverishment, health is wealth: and not only is the good name of a town injured, but the lives and health of tlie better classes are imperilled if filth diseases prevail among the poor. The introduction of a wholesome and abundant water supply into a town is simply a question of money—not what it costs to obtain, but what it costs to do without. The inhabitants of a town must be shortsighted indeed, if they hesitate at any outlay which will ])revent disease, increase their health and longevity, correspondingly augment their productive activity, and lessen their death-rate. Vienna, in one year, decreased her mortality by typhoid fever from 841 to 11 per 100,000 by introducing spring-water in place of that drawm from the Danube river, Baltimore, Brooklyn, Memphis and other American cities have done equally well. Ho\v long would it take such a saving of life and health to balance the cost of the most expensive water-works? Bad w^ater affords a valid pretext for the use of alcoholic liquors to prevent its poisonous effects. If our prohibition friends deprive the poor man of his tipple, they should certainly aid in providing Fomething more wholesome to supply its place. Apart from the encouragement and quasi-justification for the use of intoxicating beverages w-hich unwholesome water furnishes, it is an established fact that polluted water causes more deaths, more sickness, more sorrow, misery and destitution than all the stills in the State. Sanitation prescribes temperance in all things, and positive avoidance of morbific agencies. Compared to it, prohibition is a rush-light to the sun, an episode, a side-show to a great caravan. Sanitation once ^established as a governing principle in State and family, prohibition |
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Article Title | The Public Water Supply of Towns and Cities in North Carolina |
Article Author | Bahnson, H. T. |
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