The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-07-22
WOMAN'S CLUB
DEPARTMENT
Edited by the Press
Committee of the
Woman's Club

health. composed of three physicians
ia accordance with the provisions Of
the Lakeland city charter.
This matter will come up before
me Council at its regular meeting
! "Wednesday night. Let us urge that
81. citizens of Lakeland who are in
sympathy with this request give the
club its moral support.
! There is no question about Lake
land being a healthful city, one o.
! lie most hcalthful in the state. But
! lakeland is growing rapidly y
! Ecalthtul city is always sought b.!
| sick people. While Lakeland never
advertised itself as health resort.
the fact that it is one will draw peO-
rlc here in search OF health. All the
Ercatcr reason why proper body
v ill be needed to carry on educational
work in healthful living; SO that it
l.iay be known to what extent infec-
tious and contagious diseases are ac-
lively transmissible
1t has been stated that we have a
sanitary inspector who attends to the
sanitary conditions of the city. There
il, no office in the municipal depart
ncnt OF any city that so needs the
advice OF board of health as the Of
llrc of sanitary inspector. The SAM
tAry inspector has admitted that he
is not Il germ expert, that he wouldn't
know germ if one hit him In the
eye. or words to that effect. What
WE want is a department that does
know germs and will direct the work
G. the sanitary inspector and from
which he can receive advice and in
siructiOn.
For the past two months the san
itary inspector has spent practically
his entire time overseeing the work
ON the streets, filling in washOuts
and keeping streets in proper cOndi-
ton for ira HE. After the paving is
laid this work will not be required in
HE sanitary department, and the in
spec tor can give his tine to pccrinG
behind stores and cleaning out spots
that now need attention. But just
NV. when the hy-brccding and mos
quito breeding season is on, this work
! i, being neglected and flies and mos
Gnitocs ar" the greatest disease car.
rying agencies known, and these in
secis breed in dccaying matter.
In a recent article in the Telegram
Inspector Rhoads stated that the
sanitary condition of Lakeland is as
good as will he found in most any
city of like size and circumstance. =
This is true but circumstance" Gov
crs Z multitude of sins Moreover
what we want is better sanitary
condition than is found in any other
'ity 81 its size in Florida.
Lakeland Is one of the most beau
liinl cities in Florida, it is one of The
most idca in the matter of all-thc-
Icar-around-rlimatc; it is one of The
most beautiful; but it is not one o.
TIE cleanest. We know that there
are merchants whose stores in front
and IN the rear are models OF cicai-
Illness; We know that there are store
whose fronts are models of cleanli-
ness and whose rcars might be great
- improved, and we know that thor
are still others where a board ol
health could do some very effective
work both in front and i'm the rear.
We realize that conditions ON Main
street will be greatly improved whcn
the St',co0 worth OF paving is laid
~ """", wv, 'hdt TciuSc which
sticks to an unpaved street will blow
an over Il paved street, and that il
the conditions which now obtain arn
not overcome before the pavement il
down that Lakeland will not look n,
lean as it does now.
II Tia" merchants who now throw
ne S"eepinSs from their delivery
wagons and their stores into the |
continue io do so when the |
pavement is Go#n, Lakeland will no,
hc as healthiul 81 it is now. Further
more by thai iimc if the delivery
wagons are s'.l loaded in front OF
he stores and tn WAGONS allowed to
sand in the strei+, it viii take more
han two refls, wagons 10 keep Main
i'reet clean.
All these conditions, We as a club,
believe require The attention of
ioard of health, which will instruct
ne sanitary Inspector where the
health of the residents is threatened
We have 40 Doubt but that a board
health would insist that two wag-
ms are not sufficient to keep city
j 5000 in sanitary and healthful
ondltion. We believe that board
u health would insist on an ordi-