The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-21
Furthermore, from the ground with

- w SaSSSS VIVIAN
escaping, either from the pipe of the
privy or from the sewer, which,
strange to say, runs within two or
three feet OF the dairy.
We quote again from the trustees,
who claim that "the statement is made
three separate times that the wafer
closets should be outside of the bar.
racks, and not inside, and should be
detached from them. In fact the wa
ter closets were removed from the
buildings more than two years ago"
By substituting ''but" for land" 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
illegibly written, hence a number of
typographical errors appear. The sec
ond time the statement is made THAT
water closets should be detached from
dwellings" has reference plainly and
unequivocally TO private dwellings,
and the third time the statement is
used to press the fact that water clos.
cts should be detached from buildings.
There is, therefore, nc ground for the
trustees 10 assume that the committee
failed to recognize that the water clos
cts were detached from the barracks
by a latticed gallery Is feet long. The
trustees might have visited Clemson
for a game of "blind mans bu IF" but
not so with the committee.
Hitherto the committee confined
themselves to reporting the 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 seve.
rlty OF military disci pline2 That the
students are required, when the days
work is ended, TO be shut up in their
rooms from an hour after sunset until
bedtime, to swelter in a building little
superior, in-sanitary ARA gements, to
the Libby prison in Richmond 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 two2
Shall we tell them that a deep ditch,
reeking with accumulated excreta, was
Intentionally arrested in its flow and
subjected to the decomposing action
OF intense solar heat, and thai the stu
dents were kept working in the low
lands beside it, day by day, under the
heaming MONDAY sun-a menace to
their lives2
Shall we tell that the mich cows
were driven daily through this pois-
oped water, of which they perhaps
drank, and which must have splasheo
upon their udders-in either instance,
enough TO affect the milk ipjuriously.
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 ef1luvia, was recklessly de-
stroyed2
And that an official testified, of his
own personal experience, that the bar
racks ere invaded by a horrible
stench2"
Just think of It'll All this right un-
der our noses, at Clemson, which as
pires 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 Owe the
gates of hades than that of epidemic
typhoid fever at Clemsonl
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 ths "Ossa" of igno.
rance is piled on the "Pelion" of i'm
becility2 Charles R. Taber, NJ. D.,
Chair. Com. State Board of Health.
Fort Motto, July Is, 1897.