The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-05-14

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to. - But the recent discovery that
both yellow fever and our common
malarial fever are propagated
through their agency has stimulated
active measures against them. The
city of Havana, formerly hot-bed Of
yellow fever, has succeeded, by means
of systematic disinfection and abso-
lutte municipal cleanliness, in extir-
pating both flies and mosquitoes, and
at the present writing ranks as the
! healthiest city in the world.
The up-to-date Woman's Club of
Richmond Hill, L. l., acting under
the guidance of a bacteriologist, has
been fighting the mosquito nuisance
with much success. The latest dis
coveries in relation to the mosquito
and the surest methods for it's extir-
patton are found in DR.. L. o. Ho-
wards Mosquitoes and the Way
They Carry Disease" published by
Mcclure & Phillips, New York.
The common house-1y has been
proved to be as dangerous an enemy
| to the public health as the mosquito.
Bred in the manure pile, it deposits
filth and and contagion wherever 1t
alights. The city of Philadelphia has
taken the first step toward protecting
food supplies from infection by flies.
An order issued by the bureau Of
health during the summer of 1905 re-
quires manure pits to be screened,
and instructs all dealers in meats,
fish, vegetables and fruits, that their
goods must be protected from flies.
A pamphlet on ''The Common
House-1y in it's Relation to Public
Health" can be obtained from it's au-
thor, DR.. w. E. Britton, state ento-
mologist for Connecticut.
At the meeting of the General Fed
Grafton Of Women's clubs in 1900,
much interest was shown in paper
on the unnecessary noises Of cities.
There is SO much noise that is un-
avoidable that it becomer the more
imperative to forbid what is unneces-
sary and preventable. Nerve special
discovered long ago that noise is
not only cause of nervous disease,
but an agent in prolonging convelesc-
ence in every disease.
DR.. Earnest Lederle, late health
commissioner of New York, at the
international congress of scientists,
held at st. Louis in 1904, called upon
boards of health throughout the coun-
try to take united action against un-
necessary noise, claiming that the
time has come when medical inter-
ference is required. A number Of
towns and cities have legislated
against specific noises, but compre-
hensive ordinance against all useless
noise is urgently demanded. A model
ordinance, originating in Chicago, de-
fines noises as tolerable, intolerable
and unavoidable. Unavoidable noises
are the result of traffic and cannot be
escaped. Tolerable noises are those
which can be endured with certain re-
strictions as to time and place. In
the long list of intolerable and alb
solutely unnecessary noises are in
cluded the Growing of roosters, the
blowing of factory whistles, the rattl
gin of milk wagons and the ringing
of church bells in the early morning,
the cries of newsboys, the calls of
street vendors, the scissors grinders
bell, the barking of dogs, the wailing
of cats, the screaming or parrots and
the grinding of hurdy-gurdies and
street pianos.
Such an ordinance should be pass
ed in every city, and towns and viii
lagos could add to their attractiveness
as places of residence by adopting
many of its provisions.
DR.. John H. Girdner of New York,
has written a series of articles on /,
the plague of City Noises" The
first was published in the North
American Review" for September,
1896, and the second in the Review"
for October. 1897.
1t is gradually dawning upon our
national consciousness that cities and
towns are something more than ag-
of people for purposes of
money making. They are collections
Of homes, and the more the cleanli-
ness, order and quiet Of the ideal
home are effected in the municipal
the greater will be the
health and happiness Of the citizen.
IMOGEN B. OAKLEY,
Member Of the Civic Committee of the
General Federation of Women's
Clubs
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COMING FAST.