The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-01-27
FIVE Big GATHERINGS
TOMORROW AND FRIDAY
Eaton-Grove Sanitary District To Be
Made a Model communIty-state
and county's Best Known Physicians
to Teach Residents How to Operate
Healthy Homes and Clean CON-
munities.

paign now being conducted in Forrest
county under the auspices of the Mis-
sissippi State Board of Health, series
of mass meetings will be held in the
Eaton-Grove sanitary district Thurs
day and Friday Of this week, at which
a number of the states most promi-
nent medical men will make ad-
dresses.
Plans for these meetings we're
whipped into shape today, with the ar
rival in Hattiesburg Of DR.. R. N. Whit
field, having charge Of the work here,
and DR.. w. s. Leathers, director of
public health of the state.
Among those to make addresses are
DIR. Leathers, DR.. Whitfield, Prof. ]. T
Calhoun, rural school superintendent; /;
DR.. Robert Donald, county health off
Ger; and e. J. Currie, superintendent
of county schools.
Three meetings will be held Thurs
day and two on Friday.
The work of the State Health De
partment, under DR.. Whitfield, In
teaching sanitation and better living
to the residents of Eatonville and
Hickory Grove, is contained in state
ment prepared by the department and
made public today.
1t is the intention of the officials ir
charge of the movement to make o.
the two communities model settle
ments in every respect from the stand
point of healthfulness, cleanliness ant
sanitarily. The homes now are being
inspected, and graded. A second in
spection will be made later, and anoth
er grading given. These will be con
tinued until majority of the homes
reach the 100 mark.
Statement Issued.
The statement issued today, Is a.
follows:
The efforts now being put forth b.
the people living in the Eatonville an,
Hickory Grove communities-botl
white and colored, will not fail to at
tract the attention of the people in Hat
tiesburg who buy for their tables from
the people living in the country.
when the people begin to realiz
that large number of the chicken
that they buy have been partly raises
on the same filth about the lots an
woods near the homes Of those raising
the chickens, they will appreciate buy
ing from the farmer who has sanitar,
conditions on his premises.
mot long ago a hog was sold il
Hattiesburg to local butcher, and Il
making cut of pork for customer
the butcher discovered that somethin
was wrong with the meat. He promp
ly stopped the sale of the meat.
small piece was sent off by the count
health officer. 1t was found out afte
an expert had made an examinatio
that the peculiar appearance of tn
meat was due to thousands of youn
tapeworms that had gained entranc
, to the flesh of the hog fed on Vi
healthy matter.
"The people about Eatonville an
Hickory Grove are making their home
sanitary. The names of those WI
make their homes sanitary will be pu
lished from time to time in the pape
d SO that the people of Hattiesburg W
1. know that their produce-chicken
n vegetables, hogs, milk, butter, ct
e win be practically free from contain
d nation with human excreta.
ANY one else who builds santa
o closets can be made known to the HI
n tiesburg people in this way by adv
h ing DIR. R. N. Whitfield, Assistant Dir,
ID tor Of Public Health, Hattiesbol
lltss, 4. +, d /. i