The old theory of paludism or of a noxious miasma exhaled from the ground is no longer necessary.
The unhealthiness of the city is chiefly due to want of proper drainage, impure drinkingwater, miasma from the disturbed rubbish heaps, and contaminated dust from the uncleansed roads and streets.
The water must in ritual washings run off in order to carry away the miasma or unseen demon of disease; and accordingly in baptism the early Christians used living or running water.
When they are five or six they are driven into the public school to infect it with the moral miasma of their lairs.
Page 11 1 [The miasma passes around Kouga, who covers his mouth.] FX miasma shhh... Kouga Ugh!