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200 ap1>eNdix. to quote, ill part, liis statement of facts. He says: "A lame part of Southwestern Georgia was a pest-hole. It was proverbial for chill and fever — generally styled malarial fever — luemorrhagic fever, and a variety of choleraic symptoms. Mr. Fort by experiment disclosed that Southwestern Georgia was in the artesian basin, and that, by boring about six hundred feet below the surfai^e, flowing wells or energetic geysers were easily developed. As tliese splendid fountains of pure water were commonly utilized there was an instant, a magical change of sanitary character in that region. The diseases hitherto ascribed to the air vanished, and that section of the State became a sanitarium, the healthiest of localities. The old conditions of environment remained, but the mutation was in the water supply. The man who with this object-lesson before him still clings to malaria may exist, even in the artesian region of Southwestern Georgia, but he is a veritable dweller in the cave of Adullam, and with some brethren an ancient superstition of this character dies hard and lingeringly. At several places in South Carolina, as well as in Georgia, the most wonderful results have followed from the introduction of artesian water. Yemassee, in the rice country, long regarded as a death-trap, became exceptionally salubrious, and its water was in request all around. Lang-ley, S. C., a manufacturing village, had an evil repute for 'malarial' fevers. The cotton mill there sometimes closed on account of sickness among operatives, and was habitually crij^pled. So soon as the surface wells were discarded and water obtained from a natural geyser, a boiling spring in the vicinity, there was an astonishing metamorphosis. The place became noted for health; the foctory was always full-manned. Its stock improved in i>rice, dividends were regularly paid, and out of reserve funds the capacity of the concern was nearly doubled. It was with great difficulty that the managers were convinced that it was surface water and not the atmosphere that had previously wrought such disaster. ''On swamp i)lantations, where since the beginning of the century disease and death from fever raged, artesian water performed its usual prodigies for white and black. On a plantation near Augusta, where the white people used this water and the negroes insisted upon drinking from surface wells, the contrast was mai'ked. The whites had uncommon freedom from malady and enjoyed splendid health, while the negroes were constantly sick." I would call attention just here to the fact, accepted among scientific observers, that the negro races are less susceptible to malaria than the white races, which makes the illustration given still stronger. Mr. Ean-dall goes on to add: ''It was demonstrated on these places that the swamp air is as pure as that of mountain top," a conclusion, however, that no one familiar with the literature of malaria can accept—yet awhile, at anv rate.
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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 | 1893-1894 |
Identifier | NCHH-01-005 |
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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Fixed Title * | Page 200 |
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 |
Identifier | NCHH-01-005-0206 |
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 | 5 |
Page Number | 200 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 200 ap1>eNdix. to quote, ill part, liis statement of facts. He says: "A lame part of Southwestern Georgia was a pest-hole. It was proverbial for chill and fever — generally styled malarial fever — luemorrhagic fever, and a variety of choleraic symptoms. Mr. Fort by experiment disclosed that Southwestern Georgia was in the artesian basin, and that, by boring about six hundred feet below the surfai^e, flowing wells or energetic geysers were easily developed. As tliese splendid fountains of pure water were commonly utilized there was an instant, a magical change of sanitary character in that region. The diseases hitherto ascribed to the air vanished, and that section of the State became a sanitarium, the healthiest of localities. The old conditions of environment remained, but the mutation was in the water supply. The man who with this object-lesson before him still clings to malaria may exist, even in the artesian region of Southwestern Georgia, but he is a veritable dweller in the cave of Adullam, and with some brethren an ancient superstition of this character dies hard and lingeringly. At several places in South Carolina, as well as in Georgia, the most wonderful results have followed from the introduction of artesian water. Yemassee, in the rice country, long regarded as a death-trap, became exceptionally salubrious, and its water was in request all around. Lang-ley, S. C., a manufacturing village, had an evil repute for 'malarial' fevers. The cotton mill there sometimes closed on account of sickness among operatives, and was habitually crij^pled. So soon as the surface wells were discarded and water obtained from a natural geyser, a boiling spring in the vicinity, there was an astonishing metamorphosis. The place became noted for health; the foctory was always full-manned. Its stock improved in i>rice, dividends were regularly paid, and out of reserve funds the capacity of the concern was nearly doubled. It was with great difficulty that the managers were convinced that it was surface water and not the atmosphere that had previously wrought such disaster. ''On swamp i)lantations, where since the beginning of the century disease and death from fever raged, artesian water performed its usual prodigies for white and black. On a plantation near Augusta, where the white people used this water and the negroes insisted upon drinking from surface wells, the contrast was mai'ked. The whites had uncommon freedom from malady and enjoyed splendid health, while the negroes were constantly sick." I would call attention just here to the fact, accepted among scientific observers, that the negro races are less susceptible to malaria than the white races, which makes the illustration given still stronger. Mr. Ean-dall goes on to add: ''It was demonstrated on these places that the swamp air is as pure as that of mountain top" a conclusion, however, that no one familiar with the literature of malaria can accept—yet awhile, at anv rate. |
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Article Title | Drinking Water in its Relation to Malarial Diseases |
Article Author | Lewis, Richard H. |
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