The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-04-01
SHOULD Be OBSERVED
HEALTH BOARD URGES CLEAN
UP DAY FOR THE STATE.

State Health Officer Williams Makes
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 G.. F. Williams said Tuesday
that the custom of having such an
annual health festival" was Of long
standing in many Of the States,
though here 1t 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-the disin-
lection uf dirt. The cleanup day he
pictures4Iuely styled "Ternal rem
aissance of our sanitary morals. =
Observance Of such a day, he said, is
J. accepted by the outside world as evil
dence ''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, a meeting of citizens in each
community should be held, to formu-
late some systematic scheme for
cleanins. up their town.
"Hou seholders 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
dirtinegs, 1t does urge that on this one
day of the year every man, woman
and child, and ali 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 If baby's Christmas toys, the
pile Of llecaying 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
accumuiaions about the outhouses,
the chicken head by the woodpile
where Iast Sundays victim was exc
cuted-.Clean UP, pile up and burn OF
haul of all of them and give your
fence and outbuildings a fresh coat
of whiewash-leaye the front yard
for the last-it probably Is doing
fairly we'll. When you get through, go
over an offer to help your neighbor
he will refuse it, but he won't need
help next time, and you will have
aided the cause that much.
Eat school the teachers should lay
books for a day explain to the
children the odject of the days work,
:aad start them playing the game of
running down germs.
Small boys like to kill things, let
them know that every can of water
,emptied kills hundreds of mosquI-
toes, every mass OF decaying filth
Burned IS death to thousands of flies,
every coat Of whitewash buries mil
lions c,f gerns-give arbitrary nu-
merical values to these different OPP
erations and let the kids keep score
of their "killings' Put them in ap-
rons and let them daub whiteWash TO
their hearts content.
"When the school is clean inside
and ont, send them home to help
with the domestic clean up.
sBusi siness men, clean up. Clean
your back yards, clean out your
stores and cellars, re OF all dust
and mold from old k-clean your
windows, your sign our pavement
and the ditch beyo- :.
Hotels and Restaurants offer
vast field for cleaning up In dining
room. kitchen and bed rooms. Put
on fresh linen everywhere, thus fly
ing the flag of cleanliness.
"The municipality can do its share
by cleaning public buildings, parks
and streets, and most important OF
all, by arranging to remove all waste,
trash and garbage as they are placeo
in Convenient places by household
ers.
"Lt.t railroads and street railways
try inst this once the experiment OF
having their cars, waiting room and
toilets In cleanly and sanitary cond1-
ton.
"A,,lde from the moral effect OF
such campaign, the beautifying ef-
feet, and the educational value OF
such q demonstration, the following
good results are sure to- follow in
some degree:
Fewer flies during the spring and
summer.
Fewer mosquitoes this summer
therefore
LESS typhoidfi malaria, and hook
worm and diarrhae disease.
Freedom from disgusting odors
from your own or some other back
yard.
General improvement in the ap-
psarance and sanitary tone Of your
home town.
"1'he advertising value to you and
your town which such a cleanup day