The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1910-04-30

on this account one of the creates!
menauces OF any community where the
means of disposing of human sewage al
low s flies to have free access to the dis ,
charges. l may say that the mosquito
problem can be solved by any commn-
nifty with absolute certainty. Prevent
the accumula ton of standing water
where lavae can breed, drain the stag
nant pools and pour coil oil on ponds
too large 10 be drained. and the mos
quito will soon vanish. Mosquitoes al
most always remain within a Il uarter OF
mile of their hiding places. The fly Is
best attacked by destroying its breeding
place, flies will breed in any deca wing
refuse either animal or vegetable, but
its favorite breeding places are garbage
and manure, hence the importance OF
proper disposal of garbage and other
waste.
Garbage cans shOnld he kept tightly
closed and and if necessary locked, and
all wastes of this kind should be col
lected and destroyed at such frequent
intervals that flies are not allowed suffi
cient time to breed. Few things will do
more for the comfort and health of Il
community than proper system of
garbage disposal. Screens to keep ont
mosquitoes and flies are IN important
means of health insurance in any honse-
hold. Another important means for
the dissemination of disease IN Cam
bridge is the shallow dug well. There
are number of these IN Cambridge
which are found here, as in other com
munities. in clio ,e relati0 to the earth
closets. The subsoi percolatinn of
these closets eventually reaches these
wells, and practically all the shallow
wells in thickly settled districts are
found polluted. The dug wells of Cam
are no exception; practically all are
polluted in greater or lesser degree.
Persons may, and frequently do, drink
polluted water for years with ill effects.
Sooner or later, however, the sewage
-
germs of disease from the body of some
sick person. If this water containing
the germs Of disease is drunk by sus-
ceptible person, he will almost always
contract serious illness, which not in
frequently will result in his death. For
these reasons I would recommend that
both earth closets and shallow wells be
abandoned in Cambridge, aud that ar
engagements he made as rapidly as pos
sibie for sewage and water connections
for every household in Cambridge. 1t
to maintain a method of sewage dis
posal which is 4 constant menace to
his neighbor. A man may endeayor TO
protect himself and his own family by
making connections with the public
sewers, but he cannot prevent the con-
stant visits of flies from his naighbors'
closets to his own kitchen AMI dining
room. | believe that the hnlk of ty
phoid fever which Ocfnrs practically
every year 10 Cambridge is dua to this
combination of earth closets. shallow
infantnm is due to the same causes.
/ would also impress upon you the
necessity of providing wide streets,
parks and open spaces as the town ex-
pands English studies have shown
that the death rate Is always very much
higher in portions of towns where the
houses are allowed TO occupy the whole
lot aud where there are no parks.
@GEowing trees ere alsa ~ liza assstt
to any community, as they absorb
moisture from the sub soil and furnish
shade during the heated season.
Health, like every other form of com
fort or happiness, does not come with
out the expenditure of labor, thought
and money. bnt if it he regarded in the
light of public improvement, it is more
worthy of the expenditure of all three
Of these than any other public i'm prove
ment
The annual loss in capital to this
State caused by deaths from prevent
able disease has been variously esti-
mated at from five to fifty million dol
lars. There are few families in this
State which have not had to hear heavy
financial burdens from preventa BILE dis
ease, either of sickness or of death.
Preventable disease Ia, 10 fact, heavy
indirect tax upon the people, even
though it does not appear in the tinan-
cial statements of the State Comptroller
and Treasurer. 1t is the duty of the
State to lift this unnecessary burden
from the people, and the people should
place upon the State the burden of this
responsibility.
According to modern historians, the
decline of Rome was not caused by hot
baths, but by malaria We have seen
in our own South the progress of q
whole race almost arrested by single
disease-the Hookworm disease-and
the history of nations has vet to show
diseased-ridden people who enjoy fl.
nancial prosperity and material ad-
vancement.
Your house vacant week will cost
you much more than an ad sertisement.
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