Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-12-20
Letter to Citizens.

The Board Of Village Trustees wish
to call your attention to the sanitary
ordinance of the village, and ask your
assistance and co-operat on in carry
ing out it's provisions.
The main features of this ordinance
are to regulate the disposition of re.
fuse, disinfecting closets, cesspoo,s and
stables.
First, it is asked that citizens doing
business in the village do not sweep
out such places through the front door,
thereby dumping the sweepngs into
the irrigating bitches, which become
| choked at all crossings, causing the
| water to stand in the bitches or gut
| tiers until it evaporates or slowly soaks
into the ground-but. instead, to sweep
through the back door and deposit
| this refuse of all kinds into box or
barrel, and, fer the present, the board
Will undertake to have same removed
at stated times. Also, that all packing
material received at such houses and
not reused be deposited in the barrel
or box for removal
Secohd, that all closets sinks, cess
pools and stables be disinfected by the
free use OF lime, chloride of lime or
such other disinfectant as your physi-
clan may advise. This is also asked
OF the citizens in the residence parts
of the village.
That all citizens clean up their
premises and deposit in box or bar
rel at rear of premises. "This clean.
ing up means cleaning up" All re-
fuse of all kinds are included in this
request.
A few OF the things seen by the
board OF trustees are here mentioned
Broken glass and crockery danger.
ous), old tin cans, old footwear, boots,
shoes, socks and hose, old WORKOUT
mattresses, quilts and comforts, old
hats and caps Of both genders--in fact
all kinds of wearing apparel-old Junk,
ashes, cinders, fresh and decaying
bones, and all sorts of Demonstrating
things; dead cats, dogs, chickens, and
in one case dead COW within three
blocks of the posto flee in the month
OF August; and vegetable matter COM
posts heaps, decaying leaves, weeds,
all sorts OF old wire TO trip yon up
when least expected.
As to disinfecting, especial attention
is called to cuspidors and out.closets,
which should be thoroughly disin-
fected and often.
When you take time to think about
it, it is really wonderful that there is
not more sickness than prevails. All
the aforementioned things lie on top
OF the ground; it IA ms or SHOWS on
tlfem, and portion of 1t must GER
t,inly find its way into the wells, which
here are all surface and on the same
level as the closets.
The village has great numbers OF
useless cats and dogs which are ready
conveyors of disease.
This is not pleasant subject, but
it is here discussed in the hope that
we may all awaken to the fact that we
are exposed on the east, south and
west to loathsome contagious dis
ease, besides fevers that will prevail
here in the spring and summer months,
owing to the present unsanitary con-
ditions.
In conclusion. the board asks that
every citizen constitute himself or her
self committee of one to clean his or
her premises and set a good example
TO others, and that all take the other
necessary precautions against diseases,
such as vaccination, keeping the house
supplied with open disinfectants and
taking proper care of the person dur
ing the changing temperatures of the
winter months.
jim PURTILL, Chairman,