Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-03-20
sTArE SoARo oF'HGALrH FoRc.
lMo c,r,Es TO CONSERVE
puDLic HEALTH.
GUTHRIE CENTER MUST
ILLUMINATE cEssPooLs
otats Engineer Finds Conditions
I MsnasinS and Sewage System viii
% Installed Under State Supervision
State 0uys Sugar At Record Low
Pries-csmpaniss Dislike Laws.
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Des Aioines. March 20.-A great
many o. the cities and towns Of Iowa
viii have to change tactics in regard
20 drainage matters and conservation
OF heath. Under the new laws the
state board of health u going right
after the derelicts.
A sample 10 Guthrie Center. Some
years ago . fine start was made for .
complete sewage system, but owing to
the interference of local politics moth
ing was done. The other day Profess
sor Higgins, the state sanitary engi-
neer, made = survey OF the town and
reported q condition very bad indeed.
Two or three hundred cesspools in use.
with no drainage, has brought about
a condition that can not longer be
tolerated AZ soon as the report was
known the town officials came for con-
sultation with the state officials and
to consider what shall be done.
The result will be sewage system
for the town. which ought to have
been ordered years ago. It Is declared
that the only wonder Is the people
have as good health as they have. The
lack Of epidemics is remarkable.
But it is declared the same condi-
ton prevails In many Of the towns OF
the state. The only way OF getting at
it il to have q sanitary survey made
Of these towns and remedies applied.
The state officials are active and II
they secure the cooperation OF tho
!ocs: officials big change will be eff
fected in Iowa in a few years.
Iowa institution inmates can now at
ford all the sugar they can consume.
The price at which sugar was pur-
chased for the latter half Of 1914 is less
than half what was paid by the state
q couple of years ago. The state
bought s35, 900 pounds and at that rate
the state will be paying about $4,000
q year for sugar. The price obtained
this time Is the lowest on record. and
It was oil furnished by Iowa dealers.
Tho major part is to be furnished by
the Let's Fletcher Company and the
John T. Hancock Company. with the
remainder by the Smith -Lichty- Hill
man Company. Members Of the board
OF control are delighted that the con-
tracts oil went this time, for the first
time In the history Of the business, to
Iowa Arms.
Government officials in the animal
industry bureau are sending into
Dallas county instructions to the farm
ers on what to do further in the fight
against hog cholera. An effort il being
made by the state veterinary depart,
ment to induce each Of the three rail-:
road companies passing thru Dallas
county &c have their yards and chutes
at all stations disinfected and sprayed
and to provide spraying outfits for use
all the year In that county. They will
also be asked to provide chutes for re-
ception Of livestock separate from the
chutes for delivery to the cars. In
the matter Of disinfection Of hog yards
and pens the instructions TO farmers
is to be thorough and to use large
quantities Of lime about the hog yards.
In this way 1t is hoped that even better
results can be obtained in 1914 than
last year in the fight to eradicate the
disease. 49,
Telephone companies die hard on
the proposition that they have not an
absolute right to occupy the streets Of
cities and towns the same as rural
highways. as decided two or more
years ago by the supreme court in the
famous Washta case. An effort to Sc
cure reversal Of that case by indirec-
ton Is being made in second appeal
OF I case from Vail. The attorneys in
presenting this appeal stated plainly
that Il was their desire to have the
court reverse itself in the Washta
case, tho the issues at Vail are some
what different.
The court held that when in the code
OF 1897 there was inserted the word
authorize" in the clause giving cities
the right to regulate the placing Of
wires and poles in streets. 1t included
the right to exclude from the streets.
The telephone companies insist this