Cleanliness and the Plague
By Editor
The May issue of the Sydney (Australia) Herald of Health is a “Bubonic Plague number,” in which most excellent advice is given regarding cleanliness. It clearly points out that the plague found such a hold in Sydney because of unsanitary conditions. It prints the following from the Sydney Daily Telegraph of April 11, which teaches its own lessons:— “As illustrating some of the conditions to be met with in some parts of Sydney at the present time, the Attorney-General referred to a report made by Mr. Hickson on a place in George Street, where a Chinaman was living in a room that had been a closet. The closet still remained in the center of the room, and was in daily use. It was an open pit, and had apparently not been emptied for years. In this room the Chinaman slept and lived, and during the night he packed his vegetables in it. The room above was occupied by people of both sexes. The planks of the ceiling did not join, and all the bedroom slops from the floor above was thrown, not out of the window, but on the floor, and trickled through the boards into the Chinaman's vegetables. And that state of things had apparently existed for an indefinite period!” There is no medical advice better than this: Keep clean, a clean heart, a clean conscience, a clean body and home. Such an one can trust God, and not be afraid.