The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-08-07
Complete Sewerage Sys-
tenn will be Built.
READY BY FALL TERM
College Executive Committee ana
Council Of State Authorized ale
Use of $500 For the on
structiOn Of an Adequate
Sewerage system.

The joint meeting Of the Executive
Committee of the North Carolina COL
Iege Of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
and the COunciI Of State, presided
over by Governor Glenn, yesterday au-
thOrized the use Of $500 Of the Col
Iege funds in the state Treasury 10
construct an adequate sewerage SyS--
tenn at the College. The work VIII
commence at once, and tonight d
committee representing the college
will appear before the Board OF Al
derrnen of the city of Raleigh 10 ASK
permission for the College to connec
with the city pipes.
The session was brief, and the 1Ol-
lowing resolutions were UNANIMOUSLY
adopted:
"Resolved. by the Executive Com
mittee of the North Carolina Agrlcul-
tural and Mechanical College, and the
Council of state in joint meeting, that
an amount not exceeding the sun of
seven thousand, five hundred ($7,5OO)
dollars, out of the general fund appro-
priated for the support and mainten-
ance of said College, be used Tor the
construction of an adequate sewerage
system for the College.
at is further reSoIVed tnat the COL
legc authorities be requested to imme-
diatcly contract for he work, ana push
the same to as speedy q completion as
possible, to the end that said system
pc READY IOI use ct the iAoit
of the next College term"
statement From Committee
Tie Executive Committee of. the
College held n meeting yesterday after
noon n issued the following state
ment:
at Il joint meeting of the Govern
Or'S Council and the Executive Com
mittee of the Board of Trustees of the
Agricultural and Mechanical College,
held yesterday in the office of Governor
Glenn, it was decided to install at
once a complete sewerage system for
the College. The sum of seven
thousand. five hundred dollars vas
appropriated for this purpose. A
committee consisting of Chairman S.
l.. Patterson and Professors Hill and
itiddick, was appointed to make the
contracts and have the work done.
Work will be begun at once and the
sewer. it is thought, viii be finished
before the College term opens in Sep
tember.
The Trustees desire to assure the
people of the State that everything
possible to make the sanitary cOndi-
tons at the College perfect will be
done at once. Neither expense non
trouble will be spared in taking every
~precautiOn for the health of the stu
dents. 1t is believed that the compile
ton Of the sewer system. which has
long been needed, will put the insti-
tuition in a thoroughly good sanitary
condition.
In view of some recent reports as
to cases of fever supposed to be con-
tracted during the session Of the
Summer school at the College, the
Board wishes to say that it has no de-
sire to conceal any facts from the pub
lie. Several persons out of the eight
hundred who attended the Summer
School have since been sick with ty-
phoid fever. But in view Of the fact
that so few cases out of the large
number in attendance occurred and
that the general health of the College
community has been as good as usual,
the Board feels hat it is not prob
able that the fever was contracted
there. This belief is emphasized by
the fact that typhoid fever has been
unusually prevalent in man. parts of
he State during this summer, and that
it is practically impossible for a large
number of people to be assembled
without some feVer-infected person be
ing in the number Two OF those who
have since been sick We're unWelI when
they reached the Summer School.
AN inspection of the College seems
to show that there is nothing unSani-
tary there. unless it is the absence of
a modern sewer system. and this, as
already stated, will be provided at
once.
~"(Signed) S. L. Patterson. chairman,
X. w. Scott. A. Cannon, j. r.
stokes, Executive Committee"