Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-04-15


fact) -bedsprings and ashes that
won't decay, Stops that masquerade
under no other name, old clothes
everything old, but nothing new!
Old hats, old stoves. dead cats and
scurrying rats! But there, I won't
harrow up your feelings any further
with their collection of debris, eycept
the final test of excreta from barns
and stables that must not be tolerat-
ed Here no disease germs abide,
there they come into full maturity
to sally forth into the tender lungs
and exquisite organizations of our
young children-to sap the manhood
and the womanhood of the strong
and to carry off the infirm and aged.
Away with them! The times de-
mainland that, through us, that
they must go. 1t is not ourselves
who can afford to harbor germs from
the excreta, of cows tainted with
tuberculosis, the great white qlague
the spectre alike of rich and poor.
Clean up these alleys, if we have
to do it ourselves!
l want here, ladies, to call you at
tention to statement vouched for
by one of the invaluable little guides
OF civic work, published by the
American Civic association, which
will make further argument super
fuous. Some time ago two teachers
in manual training school at To-
ledo, O., on their way to school,
we're discussing the dangers of dirt.
With a chip of wood they scraped
up less than teaspoonful of dirt
from the street, took it to the labor
atory, put it into culture tube,
where week. or two later visiting
professor, from John Hopkins uni
versity, gave it a minute exanlina-
ton. In it he found besides other
germs, we'll developed bacilli of ty-
phoid, of scarlet fever. of diphtheria,
OF tuberculosis, and two others so
rare that they had to be taken to
the university to be classified. This
OF common dirt-what then, of alleys
and slums and the waist spots of the
earth? And does this not point out
to you the crying need of milk in
spection? That the manipulation of
countless millions of tubercular
germs be stopped, and that it cannot
be done too soon?
l wish to add in this connection,
that garbage may be disposed of
elsewhere than in the river, our
source OF water supply, the thing
above all others that we wish to pro-
tect. Crematories are established in
the more self-respecting cities, of
very clever contrivance, and garbage
may even be burned in the real old
fashioned way-right in your own
kitchen range. Air tight and water
tight garbage cans, are, however, a
necessity to every well regulated
home-indeed, two are recommend
ed, one for perishable and the 9th
er for non-perishable stuff. For l.,
for one, have looked askance upon
the fact that garbage is frequently
removed in the same conveyance
that carries our choicest household
belongings about the city. To be
used for coal as we'll, is bad enough,
but perish the thought of garbage!
Whence come our sporadic cases of
typhoid, diphtheria, and kindred ma
lignant diseases? Perhaps this fact
may throw some light on the ques-
ton. So have noticed that there is
a device to obviate all this. 1t is a
steel cart, water tight, nearly air
tight-shaped like a half circle and
fiat upon the top, and with two
hinged covers. 1t is a two-wheeled
cart for one horse, and can be COM
pletely inverted for purposes of
cleaning and dumping. I believe
we have great need in Bismarck for
such sanitary device. Could we not
use our efforts to secure it, that DO
luton may not escape into the sys-
tens of passers-by, and the more or
less exposed contents of the stores
which although it oughtn't to be,
do exist. Even as a private invest
ment, one interested man could make
a good living.
I think there should be a splitting
ordinance enforced, making indis-
criminate splitting misdemeanor.
Boxes can be supplied providing for
necessary expectoration, filled with
sawdust, and I do wish it might be
sawed from an antiseptic tree!"
Wouldn't you like the depot Of
f1cials reminded that the place needs
cleaning? Or would it be more
delicate to send them a wagon load
of Dutch cleansers, Grandma's wash
ing powder and a few cans of I've?
Deadly germs lurk here. And they
might give the general public bet
ter lighting service, and the doors of
the express and the baggage rooms
kept accessible at any time of the
day.