The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-06-01
Cleanup Day in Bamberg.

| Tuesday in June, as 'clean-up day.
April 10 was cleanup day all over
| the State by invitation of the State
| board of health but was not observ-
ed in Bamberg. Let us not delay
| longer! One June 5th several diff
ferent committees will have grounds
around the churches thoroughly
cleaned and put in order. The fol-
lowing extract should be carefully
read and the advice followed by every
citizen of Bamberg:
Householders should begin at
home. Doubtless every citizen feels
that his house, his outhouses and his
backyard are clean and doubtless he
| is mistaken. On this one day of the
year every man, woman and child
and all their premises should be
| made cleaner than they ever were be-
fore.
Dirt and trash of all kinds. old pa
pers, tin cans, decaying wood, the
remains of babys Christmas toys, the
Fpile 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
fecal accumulations about the out
houses, the chicken head by the
woodpile where last Sundays victim
was executed-clean up, pile up and
burn or haul off all of them and give
your fence and outbuildings fresh
coat of whitewash. Leave the front
yard for the last-it probably is do
ing fairly we'll. When you get
through go over and offer to help
your neighbor-he will refuse it, but
h won't need help next time, and you
will have aided the cause that much.
Small boys like to kill things; let
them know that every can of water
emptied kills hundreds of mosquitoes,
every mass of decaying filth burned
is death to thousands of flies, every
coat of whitewash buries millions of
germs-give arbitrary numerical val
ues to these different operations and
let the kids keep score of their "kill-
ings." Put them in aprons and let
them daub whitewash to their hearts
content.
Business men, clean up. Clean
your backyards, claen out your
stores and cellars, wipe off all dust
and mold from old stock-clean your
windows, your sign, your pavement
and the ditch beyond it.
Hotels and restaurants offer vast
field for cleaning up in dining room,
kitchen and bed rooms. Put on fresh
linen everywhere, thus flying the
flag of cleanliness.
The municipality can do it's 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 placed
in convenient places by householders.
Let railroads try just this once the
experiment of having their cars,
waiting rooms and toilets in cleanly
and sanitary condition.
What Will Be Accomplished.
Aside from the moral effect Of
such a campaign, the beautifying ef-
feet and the educational value of such
a demonstration, the following good
results are sure to followin some de-
gree:
1. Fewer flies during the spring
and summer.
2. Fewer mosquitoes this summer;
therefore
8. Less typhoid, malaria and
hookworm and diarrhoea disease.
4. Freedom from disgusting odors
from your own or some other back
yard.
5. General improvement in the
appearance and sanitary tone of your
home town.
6. The advertising value to you
and your town which such clean
up day will bring.
All over the country, the holding
of a t'clean-up" day is accepted by
the outside world as evidence of en-
lightenment, sanitary culture and de-
sire for the best in morals and phys
iQue on the part Of those participant
ing.
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