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appexdix. 181) has printed, with able comments on the same, a number from persons living in the malarious section of South Carolina. Some of them are so striking and so convincing that we feel that any one who has been interested enough to read this far will thank us for the opportunity of perusing them also. We therefore append pertinent extracts and desire to call attention especially to the letters of Mr. Emerson and Dr. Wilson. [From Mr. J. R. Randall.] * * Yesterday I had an interview with Mr. Henry Yeatman, who, for a considerable period, resided in Princess Anne county, Virginia. The conditions there are just such as exist in your low country. Mr. Yeat-man substantially said: '*How many years of suffering I would have escaped had I known or had I become convinced, as I am now, that the fevers that scourged our country were produced b}- the surface well water and not by the atmosphere, as nearly everybody believed, including the doctors. I well remember how, more than forty years ago, the Rev. Mr. Gatewood, then a young man, was pitied for accepting a clerical charge in our afflicted community. He was a fearless man and confidently predicted that he would not get the prevailing diseases. Year after year he remained among us and was totally exempt from our maladies. Ever}-year people shook their heads and said: "He has escaped this time, but wait until next year. He is bound to get fever, chills and chronic dysentery, like the rest of us." None of these ominous prophecies were fulfilled. At last some of the neighbors waited on him and asked him to tell them how he managed to keep perfectly well. He laughingly said: " I do not dring water. Neither do I drink any spirituous or malt liquors. I eat indiscriminately whatever I please—the same fare as yourselves. I drink coffee and tea, but never touch water." Of course he meant raw-water, for he boiled it with his tea and coffee. To this day Mr. Gatewood, now an old man, abstains from raw water, and is a model of health. In the immediate vicinity of our swamps the people dwelling there knew that their shallow wells were dangerous. In ever^' house a pot of water was always kept boiling in the fireplace. The people there made a kind of Yupon tea and drank of nothing else. They never had any fevers or consequential diseases. I see now that the boiled water alone, without the boiled Yupon ingredient, would have sufficed. I do not see how any man, with these and other kindred facts before him, can doubt for a moment that malaqua and not malaria is the bearer of zymotic disease. [From ''Med."] This water question is understood and appreciated by all the inhabitants throughout this notoriously malarial region, for go wherever you will and ask if they have fever, and the invariable reply will be ''Not much, or no, for we have good water," or "Yes, you see the water is not good."
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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 217 |
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-01-005-0223 |
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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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 | 217 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | appexdix. 181) has printed, with able comments on the same, a number from persons living in the malarious section of South Carolina. Some of them are so striking and so convincing that we feel that any one who has been interested enough to read this far will thank us for the opportunity of perusing them also. We therefore append pertinent extracts and desire to call attention especially to the letters of Mr. Emerson and Dr. Wilson. [From Mr. J. R. Randall.] * * Yesterday I had an interview with Mr. Henry Yeatman, who, for a considerable period, resided in Princess Anne county, Virginia. The conditions there are just such as exist in your low country. Mr. Yeat-man substantially said: '*How many years of suffering I would have escaped had I known or had I become convinced, as I am now, that the fevers that scourged our country were produced b}- the surface well water and not by the atmosphere, as nearly everybody believed, including the doctors. I well remember how, more than forty years ago, the Rev. Mr. Gatewood, then a young man, was pitied for accepting a clerical charge in our afflicted community. He was a fearless man and confidently predicted that he would not get the prevailing diseases. Year after year he remained among us and was totally exempt from our maladies. Ever}-year people shook their heads and said: "He has escaped this time, but wait until next year. He is bound to get fever, chills and chronic dysentery, like the rest of us." None of these ominous prophecies were fulfilled. At last some of the neighbors waited on him and asked him to tell them how he managed to keep perfectly well. He laughingly said: " I do not dring water. Neither do I drink any spirituous or malt liquors. I eat indiscriminately whatever I please—the same fare as yourselves. I drink coffee and tea, but never touch water." Of course he meant raw-water, for he boiled it with his tea and coffee. To this day Mr. Gatewood, now an old man, abstains from raw water, and is a model of health. In the immediate vicinity of our swamps the people dwelling there knew that their shallow wells were dangerous. In ever^' house a pot of water was always kept boiling in the fireplace. The people there made a kind of Yupon tea and drank of nothing else. They never had any fevers or consequential diseases. I see now that the boiled water alone, without the boiled Yupon ingredient, would have sufficed. I do not see how any man, with these and other kindred facts before him, can doubt for a moment that malaqua and not malaria is the bearer of zymotic disease. [From ''Med."] This water question is understood and appreciated by all the inhabitants throughout this notoriously malarial region, for go wherever you will and ask if they have fever, and the invariable reply will be ''Not much, or no, for we have good water" or "Yes, you see the water is not good." |
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Article Title | Drinking Water in its Relation to Malarial Diseases |
Article Author | Lewis, Richard H. |
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