The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1901-08-22
DISEASE AND pEsTlLENcE
Stock Unabated Through Our Beauti
fuI City.

Logan, that has merited and
held the exalted title of the Queen
of the Valley for years, it seems
this year has become dirty and
and merits the title of
being the sess-pool of the valley.
Our town is palled with disease
and sickness. Thirty cases of
are among us, and
very few people feel well. Many
who are not down sick are walking
about feeling badly. We may be
on the brink of an awful fatality
from plague in this town and the
worst may be past, but why take
any chances. What has become
of the Board of Healthp 1t is re-
ported that As of the typhoid
fever is near Goose Creek, and no
wonder. The Editor Of this paper
went on an investigating tour
along that creek and it was very
few places it's entire length that
we could pass without holding our
nose. The very soil of the dry
bed of the creek is filthy, and
when freshets come as did few
weeks ago, the offal of the entire
route is wet and putrifes in the
hot sun, emitting a stencil that
would kill an OK. In the first place
the source of the creek is in the
valley between two grave yards,
and all the water that soaks into
its banks is pregnant with the
germs of awful disease. The
course of that creek could be turn
ed the easiest kind at the foot of
Murphy hill and made to flow
straight east to Old Town Creek,
cutting it off from going through
all of East Logan and flooding our
town and the valley below. This
creek bed in hot summer time is a
sess-pool of awful filth and disease.
This is not conjecture and idletalk
or the rumblings of a newspaper to
fill space. This is vital to our
town and especially the east side.
If the Board of Health does not
wish to push such matters, we call
upon the Mayor to resign them
and appoint one that will. We
are willing to accept the position
ourself if none others will act, ard
we bet $1,000 that if we are put
in authority, Logan will get
cleaning that she has never had
before. The man that will censure
a Board of Health for doing their
duty is detriment to society and
an enemy of his family, but when
they do not do their duty, then
they should be uncermoniously
jumped on to- We will venture
the assertion that person can not
walk through an alley in Logan
without becoming nauseated with
the awful stencil from pig pens
and vaults.
Perhaps the Board of Health are
so timid that they do not wish to
offend anybody by forcing them to
clean up. First, we will say, there
is no danger of offending person
that don't take offense at the filth |
of his own premises, and second,
if the Board are so timid why
don't they resign. We say again
that we will fill one of their places
and show the pig-peners and the
death dealing landlords a rattling
in the high grass.
Where the Editor of this paper
lives the stencil is sometimes I'M
bearable from neighboring vaults
and pig pens. We have spoken to
the property owner and the Board
of Health time and again about
the matter and nothing is done.
We have to close our house at
night to keep out the awful smell,
and cannot enjoy to sit in the yard
Of evenings We want to say
right here that in our personal
case we have come to place where
forbearance ceases to be a virtue
If the Board of Health is afraid
of losing little trade if they force
wealthy landlord to be clean,
why don't they resign and let some
body on that is not so soft.
Our good friend Charles Ken
nard Jr. is lying very low with
typhoid fever and his young wife
died on on Tuesday from the dread
disease. We sat in our Office and