The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-04-05
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HEALTH BOARD URGES CLEAN
UP DAY FOR THE STATE.
State Health Officer Williams Makes
Vigorous Plea for Statewide Spring
Cleaning Next Month.

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Vigorous Plea for Statewide Spring
Cleaning Next Month.
April 10 is the day designated by
the State board of health for State
wide cleanup day." State Health
| Officer C. F. Williams said Tuesday
that the custom Of having such an
annual health festival was of lors
standing in many Of the States,
though here it will be an innovation.
DR.. Williams said in discussing the
| matter that sanitarians today believe
In asepsis-the removal Of dirt
| rather than in antisepsis- dfs'n-
lection Of dirt The cleanup day he
picturesquely styled "vernal rem
aissanee OF our sanitary morals. y
Observance Of such a day, he said, is
accepted by the outside world as evi-
deuce ."of enlightenment, sanitary
culture and a desire for the best in
morals and physique on the part of
those participating"
! DR.. Williams has had printed some
advance sheets of board Of health
bulletin, in which some suggestive
paragraphs occur:
Previous to the day set for clean
up day. meeting Of citizens in each
community should be held, to form u
late some systematic scheme for
cleaning up their town.
"Householders should begin at
home doubtless every citizen feels
that his house, his outhouses and his
back yard are clean, doubtless he is
mistaken. The board OF health does
not undertake to accuse any one OF
dirtiness, it does urge that on this one
day of the year every man, woman
and child, and all their premises, be
made cleaner than they ever were
before.
Dirt and trash Of all kinds, old pa
pers, tin cans, decaying wood, the re-
mains Of baby's Christmas toys, the
pile Of .decaying food under the kitch-
en- window, the trash in the cutters
that you have been planning to move
but haven't got around to the focal
accumulations about the outhouses
the chicken head by the wocdpile
where last Sundays victim was exc
cuted-Clean up, pile up and burn OF
haul off all Of them and give your
fence and outbuildings a fresh coat
of whiewash-leave the front YARD
| for the last-it probably is doing
fairly we'll. When you get through, &c
over and offer to help your neighbol
l-he will refuse it, but he won't neeo
help next time, and you will have
aided the cause that much.
| "At school the teachers should LAY
books for day explain to the
children the object of the days Work
and start them playing the game O
running down germs.
Small boys like to kill things, le
them know that every can of waite!
emptied kills hundreds of mosque
toes, every mass Of decaying tiltf
burned is death to thousands of flies
every coat of whitewash buries mil
lions of germs-give arbitrary nu
merical values to these different op
erations and let the kids keep score
of their killings Put them in ap
rons and let them daub whitewash II
their hearts content.
when the school is clean ipsid'
and out, send them home tc he'll
with the domestic clean up.
Business men, clean up. Clear
your back yards, clean out you
stores and cellars, wipe off all dus
and mold from old stock-clean you
windows, your signs, your pavemen
and the ditch beyond it.
Hotels and restaurants offer
vast field for cleaning up in dinini
room, kitchen and bed rooms. Pu
on fresh linen everywhere, thus hy
ing the flag Of cleanliness.
The municipality can do its shar'
by cleaning public buildings, park
and streets, and most important o
all, By arranging to remove all waste
trash and garbage as they are place.
in convenient places by household
ers.
"Let railroads and street railway
try Just this once the experiment o
having their cars, waiting room am
toilets in cleanly and sanitary condi
ton.
aside from the moral effect o
such campaign, the beautifying ef
feet, and the educational value o
such a demonstration, the following
!. good results are sure to follow il
some degree:
Fewer flies during the spring AM
summer.
Fewer mosquitoes this summer
therefore
LESS typhoidfi malaria, and hook
worm and diarrhae disease.
Freedom from disgusting odor
from your own or some other bacl
yard.
General improvement in the ap
pearance and sanitary tone of you
home town.
"The advertising value to you an
your town which such cleanup da
will bring"
Must Start Right.
"No young man starting out 70
himself, being dependent upon hi
own exertions, can afford unneces
sary expenses says the Georgetowl
Times. HE must deny himself eS
tras or always remain poor. Even
FIVE cent cigar each day will amour