The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-07-20

racks, and not inside, and should
be detached from them. In fact, the
water closets were removed from the
buildings more than two years ago"
by substituting "but" for and u
as was intended, the sentence will be
changed to a simple affirmation that
water closets should not be within the
main buildings. The report of the
committee was hastily prepared and
lllegl0ly written, hence number OF
typographical errors appear. The
second time the statement is made
THAT water closets should be detached
from dwellings," has reference plainly
and unequivocaliy to private dwellings,
and the third time the statement is
used TO impress the fact that water
closets should be detached from build
lngs. There Is, therefore, no ground
Tor the trustees to assume that the
committee failed to recognize that tho
water closets were detached from the
barracks by a latticed gallery 10 feet
long The trustees might have visited
Clemson for game Of "blind mans
onh, but not SO with the committee.
Hitherto the committee confined
themselves to reporting tho sanitary
defects OF Clemson. What shall they
say OF its management Shall we
speak OF the diet pronounced made
quate for students whose physical and
mental powers are taxed by an eX-
hausting curriculum and by the
severity Of military discipline That
the students are required, when the
days work is ended, 10 be shut up in
their rooms from an hour after sunset
until bedtime, to swelter in building
llttIe superior, in sanitary arrange
ments, to the Libby prison in Rich
mond? Shall we tell the public how
the students have been crowded like
criminals, four in a room, barely large
enough to AFFORD breathing space for
two?
Shall we tell them tbata deep ditch,
reeking with accumulated cxcrctu,
was Intentionally arrested in it's how
and subjected to the dccomposing ac.
tion of intense solar heat, and that the
students were kept working in the low
lands beside it, day by day, under the
ocamlng monday sun-a menace to
their lives
Shall we tell that the milch COWS
were DR. Yen daily through this poison
ed water, of which they perhaps
drank, and which must have splashed
upon their udders-in either instance,
enough to affect the milk injuriously ?
Shall we tell that the forest inter
vening between this pestiferous ditch
and the barracks, the only protection
for the students against the thrush OF
poisonous etliuvia, was rccklessly de-
stroyed?
And that an 81 cial testified, OF his
own personal experience that the
barracks were invaded by horrible |
stencil ?"
Just think of it All this right
under ou" noses, at Clemson, which |
aspircs to be the brightest jewel in the |
educational crown OF South Carolina.
Speak not OF typhoid fever at Glenn
son. 1T cannot and must not be Bet
ter the horrible inscription over the |
gates OF Hades than that Of epidemic |
typhoid fever at Clemson
Guard the secret-and let fathers |
and mothers come, and after weary
days and nights Of ceaseless vigils and |
with bleeding hearts, carry back to
their homes their own dear dead.
Might we not write upon the walls |
OF Clemson that the "O.sa" Of igno-
rance is piled on the Pclion Of i'm
becilty?
CHARLES II. TABER, NJ. D.,
Chair. Com. State Board of Health.
Fort Motto, July 18th, 1897.