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Domestic News March 8, 1866

The Tiffin Weekly Tribune

Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio

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Hall's Journal of Health offers preventive measures against an expected cholera outbreak next summer, urging householders and officials to thoroughly clean homes, streets, and sewers to mitigate the disease's severity.

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The Cholera.--Hall's Journal of Health, gives the following suggestions, which, if properly observed, will do much toward making the scourge of cholera which threatens to attack us next summer, much lighter than it otherwise would be. We commend them to the careful consideration of all, and hope to see the necessary steps taken without delay, to prevent this fatal disease from sweeping our citizens away as chaff before the wind :

1st, Every householder owes it to his community in which he resides, to have his house, from cellar to garret, from the street curb to the rear line of his lot, most scrupulously cleansed, by sweeping, washing and white washing.

2d, Every man who has any authority in city or town government should consider himself bound by the oath of office, and by every consideration of humanity, to give himself no rest until every street, alley, closet gutter and sewer is placed in a state of as perfect cleanliness as possible, and kept so until the frosts of next summer come:

3d, These cleanings should be done and put off till warm weather, the effort now (for the removal of filth, will only hasten the appearance of the disease, to increase its malignity and to extend the season of spring and summer the sooner warm into life and intensity, the vitiated and malignant influence which, in its remorseless tread, wrecks so much of human happiness, and desolates so many hearth stones.

What sub-type of article is it?

Disease Or Epidemic

What keywords are associated?

Cholera Prevention Public Health Cleaning Measures Household Sanitation Street Cleaning

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Event Date

Next Summer

Event Details

Hall's Journal of Health provides three suggestions to prevent or lighten the impact of cholera: householders must clean their properties thoroughly; officials must ensure streets, alleys, gutters, and sewers are perfectly clean; cleanings should not be done until warm weather to avoid hastening the disease.

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