The War Cry . THE WAR CRY. 15. THE CARE OF THE SICK.—(Continued.) The Importance of a good supply of pure air is notnenrly so well appreciated generally as Is the ne-cesylty for free supplies of pure water. has ever soueht to get cleiir .and spark-ling water, and objects to It If smell he unsavory;bi:t of the finer and subtler he liasremained, until recently, profoundly Ignorant. The curious relations of choleia to water aupjilyfurnish a case in point. In one outbreak jn Londonthirty-seven per ten thous,and of those who drankwater from the Thames above the city
The War Cry . THE WAR CRY. 15. THE CARE OF THE SICK.—(Continued.) The Importance of a good supply of pure air is notnenrly so well appreciated generally as Is the ne-cesylty for free supplies of pure water. has ever soueht to get cleiir .and spark-ling water, and objects to It If smell he unsavory;bi:t of the finer and subtler he liasremained, until recently, profoundly Ignorant. The curious relations of choleia to water aupjilyfurnish a case in point. In one outbreak jn Londonthirty-seven per ten thous,and of those who drankwater from the Thames above the city died; liut onehundred and thirty per ten thousand nf those whodrank water from below the city died. Here Is an unnuestlonable piece of evidence that aconstantly Impure water supply leaves the systemless equal to resist an epidemic form of disease. It is not that water is often the direct cause ofdisease, as typhoid feier, but It Ig eoniinonly a cause of a gradual .steady deterioration of the health, whichis revealed by the I
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