The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-05-19

~ Files, food and fingers are the
Hhree great distributors of typhoid
Fever germs. Eliminate the manure
A4piles and you eliminate the flies, and
: the fingers can be educated. The flies
INCOME from the manure piles to the
food in your kitchen leave the germs
poi disease, and it is these three evils
that must be fought in the warfare
E3Against typhoid" declared DR.. Elmer
Heg, state health officer at the Chris
s4tian church Friday evening to an au-
) dience of 33 persons including Mayor
!. sArmbruster. City Physician Nywen-
I ing, Health Inspector Fitch and Coun-
sAcilman Wight. BY the few that came,
4 the lecture was voted a gem of its
Kind.
Septic Tank and Filtration.
f The septic tank and filtration were
declared to be the ideal way of dis
posing of the sewage of the city. The
Zone without the other was unsatisfac-
2 tory according to facts and figures
~ presented by DR.. Heg. In disposing
4 of the city garbage he said the only
.splan was to burn the refuse. He adj
) vocated the placing of the collection
- Of garbage in the hands of the city,
/ and for them to see that it was prop
"A erly done. A contract system of dis
4 posing of the garbage was not econ
4 imical or satisfactory.
Police Station a Cure.
3S DR.. Heg stated that the breeding
~ grounds of the typhoid and other dis
and
7 Favored strongly the placing Of all
Stable refuse in tightly closed metal
lined box, and to compel all persons
ITO comply with the city ordinances
! towering the health situation what
iAever their station or standing. "A
few trips to the police station, and a
fine at the hands of the police court
sFare the best mediums in the world for
strict observance of the law" said
,VDr. Heg.
III Advocates Liberal Policy.
N DR.. Heg advocated a liberal policy
" in making appropriations for SAFE
81 guarding the public health, and said
that the money came back in a re-
n duction of the death toll from ty-
n phoid. He said the city should see
y that the county and state aided them
in doing their share towards bearing
n the tax burden therefrom. DR.. Heg
paid a tribute to the city health de-
partment when he said that the con-
!. ditions were vastly improved over
what he had found here on his last
trip, but that while the city proper
4 was in better condition, the outlying
districts were the same. He said a
y campaign would have to be waged
against typhoid fever at once, or there
would be repetition of other years.
Unsanitary Conditions.
DR.. Heg in conclusion stated that
Yakima county had more than its
+ quota of deaths from typhoid fever,
and that a large percentage of the
j deaths in the state of washington
were attributed to lack of proper SAM
tation. He said that after his last
visit to this city he had been voted a
"knocker'' by many owing toh is stand
on the typhoid situation in this Sc
ton but that subsequent events mad
proven him right, and following OF
his policies had resulted in decrease
in the isease. He told OF how Sc
attic was spending thousands Of dol
, lars annually for the destruction OF
rats, and said proper health safe
guards were as important to COM
|. munity as municipal improvements
He strongly favored the cooperation
of the city, county, and state in the
fight against disease. DR.. Heg Friday
afternoon visited the outlets of the
citys sewage system in company with
! city officials.