Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-24

1cAecutiVe OIHcef, Major OllDeTt NJ. Eilolt
of Brunswick, ordnance department, will
be statistical officer, and Capt. Olin NJ.
Smith of Houlton, assistant inspector of
small arms practice, Second Infantry, will
be the chief range officer of the competi-
ton. The commanding officer of the Sec
ond Infantry will detail four officers as
range officers; two sergeants to serve the
| telephone; and eight non-commissioned
officers as scorers These details will be
officers and men not members of teams
and will report to the chief range officer
not later than 1890 p M, on the day of
the competition.
Score Sheets-Duplicate score sheets
will be issued on the day preceding the
match, and team captains will deliver
such cards to the statistical officer on ar
rival at the range. Each card will con-
tain the full name and rank of each Off
Ger and man composing the team.
The July bulletin of the State Board of
Health, issued Friday, deals entirely with
the question of hygiene of rural, surbur
ban and summer homes. The bulletin
says of cesspools:
THE ordinary cesspool is rightly con-
sidered an unsanitary and undesirable
method of trying to get sewage out of
sight. The first objection to this method
is that in running the sewage into deep
hole in the ground, we put it beyond the
reach of those purifying bacteria, which
inhabit the surface layers of the soil.
Putrefaction will ensue but no complete
process of putrefaction. and if wells or
springs or house cellars are near them
their pollution will result"
The bulletin recommends in regard to
sewage disposal: when the house
sewage cannot be turned into a public
sewer or into tidal or other water not i'm
objectional methods of disposing of it:
by preparing a plot of ground for SUBJ
surface irrigation or preparing it for sur
face irrigation. But it is preferable when
the slightly greater expense can be af-
forded, to give the sewage a preliminary
treatment for the purpose of dssolving
its solid matter and removing or destroy
ing the grease which eveI tually would be
likely to clog up the pipes of any arrange
ment for subsurface irrigation, if unre-
moved; that is, septic tank should be
interposed between the house and the
patch of ground, which is to do the filtra-
tion." A number of plans of septic tanks
with directions for construction are given
in the bulletin.
The bulletin prOnounces strongly
against damp cellars. "A wet or even a
damp cellar is a condition, which is detri-
1nental to health. If the ground upon
which the house must be erected or has
already been built is not naturally well
drained and dry, it should be made so.
Simply concreting and cementing the
floor of the cellar will not suffice. What
is required is that water shall not only
be excluded from the cellar but precau-
tons shall be taken to keep the level of
the ground-water at all times as far be-
low the floor of the cellar as is practi-
cable"
Some attention is devoted to the house
fly, spoken of as 1.-The Typhoid Fly"
Says the bulletin: 1.-The fly can breed
only in filth. On the farm it is not posi-
bic to abolish all the breeding places of
flies but it is practicable to limit their
numbers very much about the isolated or
Suburban summer home.'