The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-09-13
HOP FIELD
SANITATION
State and County Health Author
ties Start Out on County
Campaign Sunday
PLEASED WITH NORTH
YAkIMA'S CONDITION
State Health Authorities Believe
That If Present Month Goes by
Without Outbreak of Typhoid
Battle Is Won Here

DR.. Eugene Kelley, of the state
health board, who has been in Spo-
kane attending the meeting of the
Washington State Board OF Health.
came to North Yakima Saturday, and
on Sunday, with State Inspector VIII
bur and County Health Officer
Thomas Tetreau in the county auto
mobile, will make a trip through the
hop fields for the purpose of effecting
sanitary conditions. Every year con-
siderable of the typhoid fever in the
valley results from the herding to-
gether of fruit and hop pickers where
the conditions are not sanitary. This
the officials hope to overcome this
year, making the conditions as sani-
tary as they have Leen made in North
Yakima, where there was rot one case
reported as having originated during
August
Sanitation of Hop Ranches
The owners of hop rancnes VIII Re
requested to put in sanit1ry priv.es
and where they have cisterns, the
health force will treat the water with
chloride of lime and instruct those in
charge how to do the same with all
water used for domestic purposes
Arriving at Toppenish, after visiting
all the hop ranches between here and
there, the party will attend a mass
meeting of citizens. DR.. Kelley maxi
ing an address on the matter of sani-
tation. After that they Will return to
North Yakima and on Monday after
noon there will be gathering at the
rooms Of the Commercial club of all
the deputy health officers in the coun-
ty, the purpose being to get together
and discuss the health situation
throughout the county. This will be
an interesting meeting for the reason
it will be the first of the kind held
in this county, for many years
Deputy Health Officers
AS a result it is expected that the
conditions leading to the propagation
of typhoid fever. The deputy health
officers who have been requested to
attend this meeting are the following:
G. A. Reimcke if Selah. DR.. j. r.
Arthur of Mckee. DR. w NJ Brown of
Naches. DR. c r Duncan of wapato,
DR., ]. J. Tilton of Toppenish DR.. A.
ley of zillah, DR.. w. K. Conklin or
Sunnyside DR. G. w. H Moore of
Mabton, DR. William H Collins of
Grandview and DR.. F. II. Monk of
Fort Simcoe.
Conditions in City Good
The state health officials were en-
thusiastic over what had been accom-
plished in North Yakima in making
the city sanitary, the health board
records showing that not one case of
typhoid fever originated here during
August state Inspector Wilbur SAID
that if that record could be kept up
during the present month he believed
We had nothing further to fear from
typhoid fever this year. Next year
the health authorities would be able
10 start with clean slate and know
just whore they were and what they
We're able to do
Now it was the hope Of the health
authorities to get the county in as
force of deputies appointed. It Is ex-
pected that this would he done with
out much difficulty although they
understand that it will be a campaign
OF education. When the people real
ize thoroughly the conditions, the
health authorities believe they will
assist to their utmost ability in MAX
ing things sanitary.