St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-06-10
ABITA SPRINGS NOTES.

The Satte Board of Health train |
arrived here Thursday morning. The
inspection. Everything was explain
ed by DR.. Adams. After a tour of
inspection, which resulted in several
places being condemned. A. o. Pons
is to be congratulated, his dairy rank
ing second in the State. At O'Clock
D. M, there was an illustrated lecture
at the pavilion by DR.. Oscar Bowling,
DR.. Adams, Miss Agnes Morris and
Dr.. Carey. There was also motion
pictures of the fly, small pest which
does damage and cost the government
thousands of dollars. DR.. Bowling
says to keep every thing clean, as
the fly breeds only in filth such as
manure and water closets and among
old papers. Dr. Adams lectured on
The hookworm. DR.. Adams has been
assigned to Covington and surround
ng towns to eradicate the hookworm.
Miss Agnes Morris spoke of the neces-
sity of having clean house as we'll
as a clean yard. She also spoke on
modern sanitary school houses.
After the RECEPTION rendered, ice
cream and cakes, were served to Miss
Agnes Morris, Drs. Bowling, Adams
and Carey. The ladies on the COM
mittee were the Misses Multi, Mrs.
IL. l.. Clairain, Mrs. H. ]. Thompson,
Mrs. T. D. Terrebonne, Miss Louise
Duquense, Miss S. Duprat and Mrs.
Carey.
The Druids held their annual
banquet here Sunday at the New
| Labat Hotel.
Mr.. John Stire and Miss Marguerite
Martin were married here Tuesday
asening at 2: 80 o'clock, Judge A. o.
Pons officiating.
Mr.. Jake Israel has rented a house
There for the season.
Notice of the coming of the Health
fCar to Abita Springs was so short
that there was no time for prepare
Ition or cleaning up. "The butcher
the baker, the candlestick maker,
and you may add, the grocery man
and the druggist, were taken by sur
lprise and the inspection of DR.. BOWL
ing was made under the usual condi
ltiGns that exist all the time. Tha
some things were not as they shoult
be was evidenced by the calling
down. that some got at the lecture
IN the evening at the pavilion.
The chief cause of the spread 0
| disease is lack of knowledge of thu
conditions under which microbes
multiply, thrive and are distributed
What to the unframed eye may ap
pear as ordinarily clean and sanitary
yet h1 n
| ali the diseases under the sun. Henc
some who have prided themselves up
or their cleanliness have suddenl
: become aware that they have bee
tthreateners of the public health ali
ia menace to the record of Abit
f | Springs as one of the healthiest point
: in the United States.
Il There are others whose negligenc
E has ben criminal in its grossness an
/ cannot be classed among the ignol
ant violations of sanitary laws.
Il lis therefore to be acclaimed an e1
: celIent thing, this visit Of the Heatl
t Car, and will no doubt prove bless
J. ing in the way of sanitary improve
ment. Those who have been negl
gent through ignorance will mai
: amendment without the necessity {
IS legal compulsion, and those who hay
t deliberately disregarded the laws I
: kealthfulness, If there be such, Vi
= he compelled by the infiiction of II
g penalty and the watchfulness of tt
public to take the proper precautfon
.. The lecture given in the evenir
i was a lesson that will no doubt be;
a good fruit, for the illustrations
IF how disease may be prevented al
- how they may be contracted we
s, more impressive than could be lear
le ed by mere oral instruction.
At The Purity Dairy, run by Jud
A. O. Pons, scored TIM, givir
1e Abita the credit of having the secol
"; highest record in the State.