The central record., 1913-06-20
Clean Up The Town, Both As To Santa
ton And For The Purpose OF I'm
proving Its Appearance.

fAS'"6 AtS AhPPS"ohSSs
Lancaster is small place, and as
such it should be an easy matter to
keep it clean, both as to sanitation and
as to beautifying. In this article will
probable be seen some suggestions
which have appeared in these columns
before, but we will allow the fact that
they are good suggestions be an apol-
ogy for their frequent appearance.
The appearance of really warm wea-
ther brings forcibly to our minds the
necessity for the very strongest kind
of sanitary measures, and the fact that
the laws of sanitation are not being liv-
ed up to as they should be is self evil
dent fact;a ramble up and down some of
the principal thorUughfares will soon
convince you, your olfactory organs will
be assailed with various odors, from
the neglected cess-pool to the decaying
manure heap and the over ripe pig sty,
each and every one of them a disease
breeder of the most dangerous type.
These things should be attended to,
and at once; if their owners do not and
will not give them the proper attention
for the sake of their own health, then
for the protection of the neighbors and
the community at large, the Board of
Health, that body whose authority has
such wide scope, should take the mat
ter in hand promptly and see that the
city's health is safeguarded. One de-
fective cess-pool may start an epidemic
of disease in Lancaster that will cost
many precious lives, all of which might
have been avoided at very trivial cost
and with the performance of a very
small amount of labor. A manure heap,
such as may be found in the rear of
some of our citizens stables, yes and
those stables opening into alleys within
block of the public square, will breed
a sufficient number of disease spread
ing flies that all the ''swatters" in the
world would not be able to exterminate
before the coming of cold weather.
Such conditions actually exist in Lam
caster, and too, after all of which has
been said and done since the coming of
the spring and summer to stimulate
the people to observe sanitary measur-
es against the probable coming of dis
ease. We are of the opinion that it is
time such things were abated, that
those who will not do these things for
their own good and for the protection
of the community, should be made to
do so. Already dread typhoid has made
its appearance, and after you or yours
have been stricken with this terrible
disease will be too late to repair the
cess pool or take the precautions that
you know you should have taken, and
you will be as guilty, as responsible
for the damage wrought as if you had
used an AK. Don't put it off another
day, if you have failed to take the
proper precautions, if there is anything
about your premises which is danger
Gus to the health of your family or
that of your neighbor, see that it is
looked after AT ONCE.
Another thing we will mention at the
risk of being called persistent in the
matter, is the blockading of the alleys
OF the town; many of these secondary
thoroughfares are almost entirely i'm
passable, especially after night, when
it is actually dangerous to attempt to
walk through one of them for the fear
OF coming in contact with a sharp rod
projecting from some piece of machin-
cry, an old wagon or some piece of
junk which has been placed there to
get it out of the way. The eventual
outcome of this negligence and careless
ness will be that some one will be in
jured, the town will be sued and hea-
Wy judgment will be added to the al
ready heavy burden which the taxpay
er is carrying, and all because of the
negligence of someone whom the city
authorities have allowed, or failed to
prevent from blockading one of the
thoroughfares of the city. The city
may be going upon the theory that
sufficient to the day is the evil there
of, but such theory will most sure
ly prove an expensive one.