St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-02-19

Nley.
Tom Corwine is coming to town! Don't know who
forget it anyhow, before the 23d, for that is when
he's coming. He is fun-maker One Of the best
on the boards and he's just fine for the blues any
other old crouch you may have. Hear what big
mana big Chicago man has to say of Tom Corwine.
HE will make you laugh without being ashamed
of youraelf. He will make you think without feeling
that you are by moralizlng tale. He will do the
body good than ten prescriptions. He will rest
your tired brains and make your soul cleaner than
ever Don't that sound promising? Chicago is
awake up-to-date and an excellent Jtdge OF all goVa
things So guess the Chicago man right. Come
to see Tom Corwine yourself, and show that the
Covngton man is just as wise ana just as apprecla
tive as the other mantle one from Chicago.
Covington is being called upon to face a grave
problem, and one which means much danger to her
people
CONSERVATIVES from every where and in every stage
of the disease sent here the wonderful bene
fits that our climate is known to afford them Now,
these sufferers, if properly taken OF and re-
stricted would be welcomed to all the good
atmosphere can do them But many OF them come
in the last stages of the dread malay, when nothing
short of miracle would save them, and they derive
no benefit, and we reap much harm. Some are too
poor to go into our sanltarums even to PROVIDE Or
binary care for themselves, and these become little
less than public charges and objects OF charity 1t
would be inhuman not to help them, and yet, such
help constantly demanded becomes drain. 1t is too
great charge for the people of Covngton to shoulder
and they should not have to do it. Texas, North
Carolina and many states Of the West have resorted
to legislative measures to combat just such serl-
Gus situation as we are now confronting. Why can
we? Again, there are persons IN Covlngton who
make business of taking tubercular patients. Their
homes are on pominent streets, and they, 50 far
from providing safe and sanitary accommodations.
permit these sick to fairly poute the premises and
their surroundings. Isn't this public menace and
should such places be permitted in our midst No,
no more than we would tolerate the harboring, with
out municipal surveyance and restrictions, Of small
pox patients or lepers? We will understand and ap
precicte that tubercuar sufferers must go some
where and that people have perfect right to harbor
them il they WISH but would it not be well to reegate
all such cases to isolated localities where the danger
of contagon is not so great? Sanitarums are not al
lowed where they will prove nuisance or danger to
the community. Then, why should these refugees for
consumptves be permitted? They are far more
GUS and much greater nuisance than well danger
reglated santarium can ever be? Another evil that
threatens Covington with great injustice and harm,
is that persons in the last stages of tuberculosis are
sent here, and in the majority of cases die within
short time of their arrival Covington gets the
credit on their death certificate as the place OF
demise How do you suppose we will rate as q
HEALTHY locality when the next United States census
is made? Where will we stand in the mortuary re-
port with all these deaths summed up against US J!
Just think If this is allowed to continue we might
as well wipe the ''Ozone Belt from the map and
bury deep pretensions to being one OF the health
lest places in the world The United States statistics
will give US the lie!