The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-05-22
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!. III Bnltimofe sun Saw: The biennial
report Of DR. I, W simmons, healthot1cerS
sof>Wa ASKING toE county, which las been
published is deserving of caretufattention
in the counties and smaller towns of the
state DR. Simmons calls attention to the
dangers which surround the homes and
the difficulties encountered in dealing with
them. The people in small towns will not
willingly submit to many of the police
regulations to which the people of citeZ
arc accustomed and accept as a matter of
course and the more intelligent gladly
accept. a. they understand ii is for their
own good. 1t is Just as much the recognize
ed duty of the police, guided by the health
otficer>,to protect family from the disease
and death which may lurk in Il nuisance
maintained Ivy Il nci@hhor, as it is to pro-
tect them from thieves and murderers.
A 1ntsn -is@ cntfttct'to crfoy pure air ant
pure water, and It is the duty of the health
oflirers to SIC to it that he rs not uniustly
deprived of them through the WIpn gfui act
of any ones 1t is pcrhAi1s Ear gely this
restiIEa - mfder polief inaNiries and
ant iiorAs khH hae raa1letAe snia Her towns
5Isczpec tIlisT haslc ofsn Shaia an kindred
fey e IS :andsl Edith diae. seS S.
: Dk Hmfab s.shoafa not be ~ scouraged
IF hr1ccannotsat soifcc impress the people of
the county WITH the 5Asifal ingportance of
sanitation. 1t is common experience that
1t lose tQr. whom nature does most do least
|Sf-p nc rhscfvrs-. 1t takes time to change
the habits of Il people or to effect amy re
forms. 1t cannot be accomplished suddenly
or violently under cur system OF govern
ment, and DR.. Simmons is taking the
right course in publishing such reports
as that to which we have referred. In this
way he will educate public sentiment and
enlist it upon his side. One suggestion that
he makes is worthy of all heed in the city,
town and county. And that is care of the
cellars. The cellar, he says, Is most
favorable place for the propagation OF
disease germs This is especially the case
in the country, where 1t Is made the
repository of quantities of vegetables. The
| cellar is nearly always damp, without sun
shine, and the temperature rarely sinks to
the freezing point. They are Immediately
under the house, the polluted air from
them readily permeating every portion of
the habitatiOn. In the good work which
engages DR.. Simmons he should have the
support and cooperation of the county
and town government as well rs of the
people. .... ....- .........
\ Lesson FROM THE WEST.
| time ago there were few places in the
United States more talked about than
Cripple Creek, the mining town in Colo
RADIO 1t had boom Of the most magnit-
cent proportions. 1t fairly reveled in
rainbows. Speculation in its mining prop
critics went mad. exchanges for the pur-
| chase and sal of its stocks sprang up on
every hillside and on every corner lot
within its town limits. People tumbled
| over each other for fear they would not
| be able to get i'll on the ground floor.
Everybody was going to make ambition in
| a minute. Cripple Creek was going to be
| one of the greatest cities in the West, and
| It's people had already begun to look around
| for name That would be more appropri-
ate than Cripple Creek for Il metropolis OF
| the kind this was to be.
+ All this happened hut Il few short months
ago, hut now the change has come. The
| bottom of the boom dropped out, a fire
came along and swept away many of the
cheap buildings that had been hurriedly
constructed, and now Cripple Creek has
| gotten down to hard pan. Its fortunes
and its mayniticence have not materaliZed
| but perhaps it will he the better for it
| The experience was Il costly one, but now
| it can start right and go ahead. Some OF
| its mining properties will undoubtedly
| prove valuable in time, when they are well
dcvcloped but this will require time, mon
| ev and headwork. ... ...
| There are a host of towns and some
cities in the South that passed through an
! experience similar to that of Cripple Greek
Some of them survived, and are now pros
porous. Others went by the board. They
| all proved that booms of the balloon or
| der do not pay. What Il town or city
| needs is steady development along safe
lines That is just what Baltimore and its
suburbs are now enjoying, and what they
| propose to keep on enjoying all the time