The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-09-24

PUBLIC SANITATION
| IS THE new SCIENCE
Address by David Starr Jordan
Before League of Califor-
MIA Municipalities
Moral Publication of Cities Is
Quite as Essential as the
Physical Cleansing
Especial Dispatch TO The Call


SANTA CRUZ. Sept. 2s.-one sof the
features of the convention of the league
of California municipalities was the adj
dress this afternoon by President David
Starr Jordan of Stanford university.
His theme was 1.-THE Strength of Being
Clean, as Applied to Cities"
The California public health .associa-
tfon united with the league in a joint
session and the hall was crowded.
many women being present At the
conclusion of his address President
Jordan was heartily cheered.
SYNOPSIS OF ADDRESS
Doctor Jordan. spoke in part as fol-
lows:
The work of public sanitation is the creation
Of our own generation. 1t is the work of scien..
tihc men. of trained physicians, as compared
with the dealers in drugs and mystery ana the
operators by rule Of thumb which were produced
so abundantly. by medical instruction which did
Among the elements in public santa
ton are pure water, free from the germs
eases; pure air. freed from the germs that float
from dried sputum; pure milk. which should 60
with pure water; the enforcement of vaccination;
our only safeguard against the horrible plague OF
smallpox; the fight against the white plague,
tuberculosis. less horrible. but not less fatal than
the black plague, the yellow or the red; the kill
| selves the carriers of the bubonic plague; the
killing of ground squirrels, which In some places
have cought the flea and the plague from the
rat: the killing Of mosquitoes. which torment
alike the just and the unjust. and may carry the
minute animal microbes which cause the various
forms OF malaria, including the dengue and the
yellow fever
MORAL SANITATION
Outside OF physical diseases, the city has its
duty towards moral sanitation. 1t should not
moral decay. The saloon is destructive
than the pesthouse. 1t is center of nearly all
moral and physical vices.
''The strength of being clean is a
phrase Doctor Jordan has applied to
the individual. The clean man is nor
NAL, and the normal man has all the
strength his Creator has given him.
The same phrase applies to the clean
city.
OTHER ADDRESSES DELIVERED
The general subject of the day was
Public Health" and other interesting
papers and addresses were given as
follows. THE Administration of the
Pure Food Law" Prof. M. E. Jaffa,
director of the food and drug labora-
tory; Administration of the General
Health Laws" j. E. Gardner. attorney
for the state board of health.
President A. X. Orr, mayor of vi
salia, whose term expires with this
session, gave boost to the whole state
in short address, tonight.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS
The election of officers for the COM
ing year resulted as follows:
President, c. Evans, mayor of River
side; first vice president. w. f. Parker,
city s,s clerk p Of Monterey second vice
Berkeley; secretary, H. A. Mason, San
Francisco.
San Diego was selected as the place
for holding the next convention.
Tho CITY aftnrnnvS' ort,
elected City Attorney Butcher of Santa
Barbara president and City Attorney
Phil 6. Sheehy Of jacksonville secre-
tary.