The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-16
THE SOUTH ATTACKS
FESTIVE MOSQUIT0
AND UBIQUITOUSRI
WAR wAeED UPON TWO :.
MES TO PUBLIC
HEALTH.
THEY CARRY FEVER GFpv
Water Barrels Screened-s,,,.
Water on Lots Not Perni..'
Weeds Cut Down.-sanitarv p.r
Employed.

NEW ORLEANS, April 1.-THE :.
>. tire South has notified the festive u..
+ quito and the ubiquitous house :.
!. that they are undesirable citizens -,
that under no circumstances will t.,
be permitted to reside in Or frepps,,
the inhabited communities. But ii.
} authorities have not been satiss,s
with declarations. Not much. Tia,
have not forgotten the lesson tsuyb,
them in 1905, when the yellow few,
came.
So, all over the South, in the smsIIs,
villages, as well as in the bigger cite,
the health authorities are opening .,
early campaign against the dissemIna
tors fall the deadly diseases-tbs
mosquito and the house fly. II b,
been demonstrated that the mosouin
is not the only disease-spreader He
or she rather-does spread yellow
fever. But the house fly has been
tried and convicted of the crime Of
disseminating malaria, typhoid fever
and several other diseases, no less
deadly.
Under the direction of Dr. ]. s.
White, the famous Marine Hosnital
surgeon, who fought and whipped the
yellow fever in 1905, a regular set Of
laws and precautions have been de-
vised. These are practically the same
in all the Southern cities and States
To begin with, all tanks of water
cisterns or vessels which hold water
or might be filed with water after a
rain, must be covered and screened /
with a screen at least eighteen mesh.
es of wire to the inch. Standing wa.
ter on lots or commons is not per.
mitted. All shallow lots must be
Trained and kept dry or the owner is
subject to a severe penalty. All sta
,les must have alright receptacles
or refuse and this refuse must be
emoved each week. Where there
re large natural bodies of water
which it is impossible to drain, the
urface must be disinfected and oiled \
t frequent and regular intervals
Even the water used in the sprink-
ng cars is heavily charged with the
trongest disinfectants.
But the authorities do not stop even
ere. They go into the restaurants,
afes, butcher shops, dairy depots and
akeries. They force the proprietors
} screen their premises with copper
Greens and to screen the receptacles
which food is kept and prepared.
In the public and parochial schools
70 teachers regularly and mistakenly
lpress upon the children the danger
contamination and the necessity OF
'eying the rules laid down by the
,alth authorities. This not only in
res care on the part of the next
neration, but the children are grad
lily instructing and converting their
rents to a belief in the great doc
ne of sanitation.
Of course, in the cities a regularly
sanized force of sanitary police en-
'ce the laws. In the smaller cities
, health-preserving rules are looked
er by State officials.
n connection with this campaign II
to note that those years
which a vigorous and careful cam
gn was waged against these winged
It's showed a greatly decreased
Ith rate and a most comforting ana
decrease in the number
deadly diseases.
everal of the larger cities nave
ngent anti-weed ordinances, when
ke 1t crime to permit the grown
weeds, under penalty Of fine ana
In some places the
Ids must be cut when five inches
; in others greater latitude is per
ted.
he Boards OF Heath in one CITY
lange ideas with others, and thus
inform system OF defense against
ase is being gradually worked out