The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-10


ditions that this is necessary? When
we stop to think that disease breeds
poverty and degeneracy and these ~
were looking to Or health as well as
our morals? l would call attention to
our alleys, particularly in the business
district. Did you ever glance down All
alley in the business district or did YOU
/ try to and fail? Do you think these
unslghtly alleys improve and boost on:
city, with the boxes. barrels, papers,
mud holes and manure heaps, forming
the breeding place of flies and rats, the
sure there is not a business man in
town that would not gladly pay his lit
tie part to have these eyesores paved
if some one would only start the ball
rolling In the rear of some of the bust
ness blocks can be found rubbish OF
all kinds and in the rear of livery
barns the alleys can't be made sani-
tary until they are paved and will con-
tinue a source of disease to those in
the district around until they are
paved. The old shops on the principal.
streets are very rat dens and breeders
of disease. In the recent crusade
against rats in San Francisco, when
the plague started there it was acct
dentally discovered that in the dis
tr:cts in which the old shops were de-
stroyed and the rats killed out, that all
the diseases were reduced to one-half
what they were before. And besides,
these old shops and second hand stores
with their disease reeking goods give
us more bum advertising to the new
Corners than all the nice pictures we
can point out to them, and the odor
arising from some of the Main street
second hand joints makes more last
ing impression than the euphonious
story of the real estate men"
Dr.. Ostram Speaks.
DIR. E. E. Ostram was the next
speaker representing the health Of
Mice in the absence of City Health Of
ficer DR.. E. E. Shaw. In part he said
In attempting to write a paper on
the health problems of Walla Walla
the first thing that confronted me was
from what point of view 1 should base
my paper; whether from nOn-parti-
san point of view or from the point
of view of one who is associated with
the office. But as it appealed to me
to try and tell the people what diff
Gu ties we havesto overcome 1 decided
to trace the subject from the point OF
view of one associated with the health
office.
First / wish to outline the more i'm
portant duties that come before us
not infrequently, every day and to ex-
plain the difficulties we have in car
rying out some of them. First and
most important at present is the clean
! ing up of the garbage and trash from
/ the alleys and streets, Second, to
watch for all contagious cases of di-
1 sease in the schools and the city at
large. Third, to quarantine all con-
/ tagious cases and to see that no quar-
antine is broken. Fourth, to record
all death and birth reports. Sixth, to
look up all nuisance complaints and
have them removed at once.
As a closing statement we wish 10
urge all to clean up your part OF the
city and if your neighbor does not care
enough for the looks of the city why
simply take the matter into your own
hands and make them clean up
you will work with us and not against
us the result will be far more salts
factory.
From the foregoing statements you
can easily see that the Health PROD