University Missourian., 1912-12-15

movement StdTteQ Dy tne women s
Civic League. People are taking it as
an individual matter and the pros-
poets are that Columbia will appear
Thursday morning with bright
clean face.
The Y. NJ. c. A. is prepared to sup
ply student help to anyone wishing
such help in the cleaning of streets
and alleys.
=. A number of other towns have had
very successful clean up days. In
Carthage, Mo-, it made such an i'm
preston on the citizens that they
continued hauling away rubbish each
day for three weeks. In Birmingham,
Ala, the women appointed themselves
their neighbors' back yards. The
civic league of Kirksville was given
$1,000 for one year with which they
equipped street cleaning depart
ment.
A number of persons have taken a
decided stand i'm this matter, are
working themselves, and urging
others to help also. Read what the
following say about a cleanup:
How II Will Aid Health.
In what way will clean up day be
a benefit in the fight against tuber-
culosis? My province is small as
compared with the entire scope of
good to be accomplished through this
work, but mine alone would fill VOL
umes if l were allowed the space AS
it is. l can only mention in outline a
few more important results. To be-
gin with the fostering of an idea of
municipal cleanliness will emphasize
the harm derived from dirt, both to
corporate and private life. The un-
derstanding that dirt is the most
fruitful conveyor of disease and es-
pecially of the tubercle bacillus, can
not be too clearly placed before the
public. Not only is dirt and filth col
lected in city streets and alleys,
perfect conveyer of germs, but it fur
nishes as we'll an ideal place for gen.
Grafton and propagation of this bac-
terra. The only means of protection
from this constant and virulent
source of menace to public health is
a never ceasing and vigilent cam
paisn against uncleanliness. 1t is to
be hoped that the effects of this day
will not temporary, and that the
impressions made will prove lasting
and beneficial.
WALTER McNAB MILLER,
Secretary. Missouri Association for
the Relief and Control of Tuber-
culosis.
Some Cleanup Methods.
Clean UP the street. clean up the
back alley, clean up the cutters, clean
up the yards, clean up the cellar.
Next Wednesday is cleanup Day. For
the good of your children's health,
clean the premises. Clean thorough
ly every single hole and depression
where water could possibly accumu-
late next spring.
If your back yard gets muddy when
it rains dispose of your winters
ashes by making a cinder yard. If
your front yard gets muddy in spots,
level it off, and SOW grass seed on
the spring SHOWS. Dishwater pools
at the back door may freeze over
now, but they are unsightly; and
when the weather turns warm, are
breeding places for the fly, mosquito
and all the disease germs which the !
fly and the mosquito bring to our
food and skin.
Wet places are germ farms. La ,
grippe and pneumonia come with the ,
thaws. When clean snow falls on =
clean ground and is properly drained =
away as it melts there is no possi- ,
Dlilty Of the water or the ground mar i
boring germs. But if the ground is f
the receptacle of household scraps it .
is not clean, and both water and 2
ground will be dangerous sources OF r
in the spring. i
If your basement floor is not ce- S
ment, keep it dry. Trench 1t now. II n
your root cellar is damp clean out
every scrap of decaying vegetables, f
Try it if possible. and above all
Keep ii clean. Doctor Whitten Will
ell us soon just how to care for our '
cellars and cold storage rooms. Watch
he papers. b
If we could keep the paved streets L
lean and enforce the ordinance {
lgainst expectoration most OF the Il
ity doctors would have to move to