The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-02-26
a SANITARY NECESSITY.
The Public Health snd Comfort De-
mands Scwerage-System.

The question of a sewerage system
is now being discussed by Orangeburg,
Sumter, Georgetown, Florence, and
other towns in this State. The city
of Columbia, Greenwood, Anderson,
Newberry and other progressive towns
are now putting in sewerage systems,
or are about to commence doing So,
while Greenville, Spartanburg, New
berry, Aiken, Chester and other up-to
date towns have already put in sys-
TENS. It will thus be seen that any
town of any size in this State, that ex-
poets to keep abreast Of the times, will
have to put ina good sewerage system,
which is really sanitary necessity,
essential to the health and comfort Of
its citizens. In letter to the
Florence Times On the subject Of
sewerage Engireer Minshal, who is
an expert, very truly says that the
fundamental idea and the principal
which has characterized the develop
ment of the removal Of household and
other wastes, has been that no living
being can be healthy while the pro-
ducts of his vital action are permitted
to accumulate around him. Even the
lower organisms are injuriously affect
ed by the continued presence Of their
own dejecta to such an extent that if
they are kept in a confined space they
gradually die of,
In the case Of the higher animals
the earliest remedy for such self
poisoning has been migration, but
with the increase Of numbers the op-
portunity for this has become more
and more limited and various pests and
diseases have appeared as the natural
consequence of overcrowding. With
man there has been the additional
burden Of the refuse Of his industrial
occupations. The injunction Of Moses
that unclean matters were to be car
ried without the camp and burned
evidences the fact that for ages past
man has recognized the necessity Of
the removal Of such wastes from the
immediate site of his habitation. But
the cremation Of liquid and solid ex-'
creta and vegetable refuse requires
much fuel and produces intolerable
odors, hence the primitive method Of
the disposal of efete matters consist
ed almost entirely in the very effective
method which is still in use in dealing
with the dead, namely committal to
earth.
Again and again has man been
scourged for his uncleanliness and un-
godliness and the science of sanitation
as it stands today, is the product of
ages of study and experiment on the
part of those very few who have re-
cognized that a nations health, is
it's wealth and strenth. so that
the removal of domestic or house
hold wastes has been developed step
by step up to the present time when
the most modern method is that by
the water carriage system under
ground known as the seperate stystem
Of sewerage. The combined system
of sewerage carries off both the surface
drainage and the domestic and manu-
featuring wastes and requires very
large brick, stone or concrete sewers
and a subsequent large expenditure OF
The separate system which
is much cheaper than the combined
system, provides for the household or
domestic and manufacturing wastes
only and the carriers are usually made
Of sewer pipes of such size as to carry
off the wastes from the tributary po-
pulation along any line or lines OF
sewer.
''The late Col. Geo. E. Waring was
the first sanitary engineer to adopt
the separate system Of sewerage in
this country, and the first system
built by him on large scale was that
Of the city of Memphis, Tenn. The
terrible ravages Of yellow fever preyi-
Gus to the construction Of the Mem
phis sewerage and the entire absence
of that disease afterwards are matters
OF history known the world over and
with numerous other cities similarly
situated attest to the benefcient ef-
fects of a system of sewerage. Havana,
Cuba, prior to its occupation by the
American forces and the subsequent
of sewers, was a veritable
hot bed OF yellow fever, while during
the past year but eight cases of yellow
fever have been recorded by the gov
ernment officials in charge there. The
city of Plymouth, Pa, had an annual
epidemic Of typhoid fever entaihng a
loss of thousands of lives prior to the
of sewers a few years
since: two years after the completion
of the system but ten cases Of typhoid
fever were reported during the year"
Of other instances might
be cited showing the benefits Of sewer
age on the health Of town and cities.