The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-09-16
UNIFORM Law
FOR Sewerage
Presence of Typhoid Fever Cases
Impresses Necessity Of
Sanitation.

With reference to the work pro-
posed by the Civic Improvement Com
mittee looking to the identifying and
making sanitary, the city of Hatties-
burg, the statement published below is
timely The health of any community
is of far more importance than its
beauty and should be given first at
tention by the authorities and civic
leagues. There are now in Hattles-
burg several cases of fever that can
be attributed to unsanitary conditions
in the neighborhood where the af1ict-
ed live, and these cases of sickness
could have ben avoided had property
owners made proper sewerage connec-
tons. Agitation of better sanitary
conditions by the citizens will result
in property owners being compelled |
to make sewer and water connections,
and plan devised whereby all owners
will be affected alike. 1t is not right |
that one man should go to the expense
of putting in sewerage and water and |
his next door neighbor turn the water
from sinks, and refuse matter into |
the street. thereby multiplying the pre-
cautions of the other citizen.
The statement following was made
by Superintendent Tarl of the sew
erage and water department of New
Orleans, in commenting on action TAX
en- by the city authorities to compel
property owners to make connection
with these utilities:
IF a plan were adopted to make
them connect throughout the city at
such time as the water and sewer
pipes were brought up to the proper
| ty lines, it would not give them a fair
/ opportunity to get ready, and when
we went to them and said We were
ready to bring the pipes up to the
line and asked where they wanted
their connection located they would
make excuses and say they did not
know, Just for the sake of delay then
if We went ahead and laid them. no
matter where we put the connection,
they would declare it was in exactly
the wrong place and inst where they
did not want it.
by this plan they are advised
ahead of time that they must make
the connections by a given time and
they can get their plumbers to arrange
the connections exactly where they
want them put in within the time the
law requires.
"Of course, do not think it would
be fair, and perhaps, not practical, to
embrace the entire city in this one
limit of time, for it would be impossi-
BILE to keep up with the work, think
the good citizen who does the thing
voluntarily is entitled to first consid-
Grafton.
"Then | think the other sections OF
the city should be taken up in rota-
ton. For instance, in a month or two
after notices are served to property
owners of this central section thai
! they must make the connections by
I October I. 1912. notices might be serv
1 ed on owners in another section tina
l they would be forced to make con
nectons within a year from the dat'
of their notices, and then month o
! two later the owners of still anoth2
section could be similarly notified ant
given a year from the date of thei
notices to comply, and so on, until tn
entire city is covered.
"Then there should be no foolisf
ness about enforcing the order. 1t
man is notified that he must make tn
- connections by certain date and o
that date has not complied with tn
notice. he should be prosecuted. e.
cry one of them should be treate
alike. 1t the people once find the cit
is in earnest there will be gener;
rush to get in line and everybody wi
be benefited.
This plan adopted and religious
carried out will result in the abolls
ing of the cess pools, surface close