Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-26

such the cellars alone were Hooded. ana
often their next-door neighbors escaped
with loss OF electricity and gas-the wa
tiers stopped by magic, engulfed in some
unknown catacomb,
As things are. the family to family Nisi-
tation division is just possible. IL Will he
one of the greatest municipal feats ever
omp'iShed.
DO you realize the Augean proportions
of the job? Hercules himself, who made
lasting reputation with less jon, was
not supervised and checked off as he
worked. The Lepine ordinance runs
through my head:
After tie deposits have been thus re-
moved from all cellars. ground loors.
Railways, courtyards and ether polluted
surfaces. they must he powdered VIII WIN
grams of quicklme per square yard.
Cellar walls must lie swabbed with
disinfecting whitewash. Walls of inhab-
tied ground floors, shops. Railways and
..ol1tyaris must he washed with laval
water ciesyl. IySol OF other approved So
luton. tSre SCHEDULED
The. PaSteur Institute recommends the
fumiCation Of I'll sewers. canals. stables,
cellars "nd other ace that do not tear
deterioration LV burning straw. The
incomplete co,nhrst ioi a. compressed wet
straw gives Firth 10 ic"nic aidehydes
that ar" very ror"TsHL Burn fourteen
pounGs pcr lc1 cubic YARDS OF air and
Won have = ,,ei-fect Gisintcctant plus a
commission accepts il in cases where its
other pres criptions cannot bc followed
Immediately. Later the otter prescri'-
tons must is followed to the letter
SWappiu" gcrmicide formulas l. the
present past:me Mon III harrooms drop
their dissolVinc tablets into the very
water Of their absiuthe- Yet boiled HI
tered water" pacar,.s stare at them be
hind the bar. No one laughs al thenl.
our servant girl scrubs the, brick floor
Of her kitchen daily. Our janitor made
me copy the name OF IA new harmless
sterilzer OF a hundred sprung upon the
market. ! accepted solemnly. Is not our
bread often left in his lodge?
Never was there such craze to side
step typhoid.
say for the most part in dog day
drouglts Seine water has sometimes to
be turned into the mains of different
wards. in rotation, but then municipal
placards abound ''Parisians, boil your
water,
Should Paris in the coming months,
attain the usual typhoid averages OF
Pittsburg or Philadelphia she would con-
slider it an epidemic.
As things are. the doctors have scared
US To point of utter suspicion of the
water mains and all vegetables except
the canned.
see Frenchmen eating American can
ned corn, succotash and baked beans.
while the stock of pcs. string beans and
other vegetables in ans - lass is being
picked up by hotels and hole. holds. Nat
urally, the rich hotels with new kitchens
have every facility for sterilZing fresh
vegeta bles, but they have to be ready
when the customer demands canned.
1t is otherwise with small households
fetching their cooking water from coln-
tryside springs (by the milkman or
laundryman) or from favored Paris reser-
vors (by dubbed auto service. A car
boy must last two days. In particular.
families cooking with mineral waters
want to economize them by the use OF
canned goods.
Personally, | have had all our cooking
done with Evian water at II cents per
bottle This is, doubtless. painting the
lily. The water of the mains. if pre-
viousy boiled an hour. is fit for cooking
at this moment. and it is the only water
on which the mass of Parisians can de-
pend.
The doctors publish that THE Seine
has broken its barrages and filters,
washed out cemeteries and backed ND
into sewers bringing into our very houses
the seeds of the scourge.'' Milk which
is regularly watered, can thus contain
the famous bacillus of Eberth. Vege-
tables inundated in the truck districts