The Arizona daily orb., 1900-03-26
SEWERAGE
The Nest Presslng Need of Our
 City. \

Biabes would do we'll to fall in line
 with other cities in Arizona and the
 west in the movement for cleaner
 streets and better sanitation. It IS high
 time that crusade was begun against
 the pestilencs breeding filth and gar
 haze that is recklessly thrown into the
 gutters, alleys anl streets. The atench
 already arising from some the gulchss
 is now unbearab.e, to gay nothi g oi
 what it will be with the hot weather
 Bisbes has now reached point in her
 history wtere it has become necessity
 that her citizens take this matter in
 hand. A meeting should be called at
 the opera house and some decisive steps
 taken in thls direction. The Copper Queen com psny has always been ready
 to assist in this matter, and when the
 time comes will do considerable to have
 installed good sewerage system, but 1t
 lays with the citizens of the town to be- gin the work. To accomplish thus it may be necessary to incorporate tie town and issue bonds to secure the funds, but who is there among our pro- gressivs citizens who would oppose any thing that woull fu-thet the project of better sanitary eoAdiIions generally.
 It is no longer theory that cleanli- ness of cities is gigan tic power in the prevention and destruction of disease and it's germs, and it il by far the best antiseptic known and the most en- ployed by the sanitarian of today.
 A refe,encs to tho worlds pestholes, without taking into account the sacred Gangss, where death turks in its fltEy waters and where y arly thousands of ignorant and superstitious people find their graves, but in cities for centuries under surveillancs ot civilized people, the mortuary records were horriiying up to short period ago, when the agi- tation became general for better sani- tary measures. New Orleans, now con- sidered . comparatively hcalthly city, was one; Mexico City, Guanajuata, Mexico, and many others thar were re. yarded as deathtraps, have of late years lowered thelr mortuary statistics by ,alf, without calculating on a ratio of population.
 That cleanliness is magic in it's effect. veness was dem onstrated at Santiago le Cuba and at Havana by our sanitary orps of the army. The death rate hat had got to be appalling nong the Ioidiers was reduced in short time to | he normal or what was naturally ex. 'ected among an unacclimated people. The cleaning up of these two old cities hat had lain in their fifth for centuries, las shown to the advan age of the na- ives alec among whom there is less sickness and mortality than before in their history. a'
 Bisbee, it Is understood, does not quite furnish . parallel case with any ,f the above cities, but is plenty. bad enough. Every summer there are hun lrsds of cases Of virulent type of con- tagious and infect,ous diseases. Il
 There is no doubt that they ere con- [ racted by breathing into the lungs the etld air that comes up from the gu.ches nd cesspools and the decayed herbacs- 'us matter that is thrown into the rear 'f Main street from restaurants and sa- oons.
 ."A pound of prevention" can be easi- y applied in Bisbee's case, and with a 'ery small expenditure it can be made ne of the cleanest and most hoalthful owns Tn the west