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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In Salem, a writer highlights the aqueduct as key to public health by providing pure, moving water, contrasting it with contaminated well water that causes fevers and chronic diseases; emphasizes pure water for food, drink, clothing, and personal hygiene.
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According to a writer on the means of preserving health in populous places, this town possesses, in the Aqueduct, the most essential means for preserving the health of its inhabitants; as they are thereby supplied with good water, kept pure and wholesome by constant motion; while the still water in wells, rendered more unwholesome by the putrescent and filthy matter in yards, stables, &c. continually soaking into them, in old and populous towns, is a means of producing putrid fevers, and every species of chronic diseases.
Not only the wholesomeness of victuals and drink, but the salubrity of our clothing, depends upon the purity of the water we use. It is essential that our linen, and other clothes which apply to the skin, should be washed in pure water; otherwise the effluvia will not be sweet or healthful. The difference in the smell of linen washed in pure water, and that washed in the putrid rain water which has been confined in a cistern, will prove the superiority of the former. It is also of consequence that the face and hands should be washed in pure water, that all the particles absorbed by the pores may be salutary.
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Salem
Event Date
October 17
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According to a writer on the means of preserving health in populous places, this town possesses, in the Aqueduct, the most essential means for preserving the health of its inhabitants; as they are thereby supplied with good water, kept pure and wholesome by constant motion; while the still water in wells, rendered more unwholesome by the putrescent and filthy matter in yards, stables, &c. continually soaking into them, in old and populous towns, is a means of producing putrid fevers, and every species of chronic diseases. Not only the wholesomeness of victuals and drink, but the salubrity of our clothing, depends upon the purity of the water we use. It is essential that our linen, and other clothes which apply to the skin, should be washed in pure water; otherwise the effluvia will not be sweet or healthful. The difference in the smell of linen washed in pure water, and that washed in the putrid rain water which has been confined in a cistern, will prove the superiority of the former. It is also of consequence that the face and hands should be washed in pure water, that all the particles absorbed by the pores may be salutary.