The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-10-21


along sanitary lines than upon any
one single procedure
i'r. Joseph Y. Porter, State Health
Officer of Florida and one of the
country's greatest authorities on
health matters, recently conducted
some Investigations covering the en-
; tire State. He found that toilet
facilities in almost every instance
where the property holder had not
connected with a sewage system
were grossly insanitary. In num-
bers, too large to mention, they were
of the rural schools he found v it'll
out any means of disposal and that
of the remaining forty per cent was
about as bad as none at all. To
remedy these defects he drew up
some bills, went before the legisla-
ture at Tallahassee and secured their
enactment into laws. The measure
daalinig with the topic under discus
sion provides that these accessories
shall be made fly proof and accord
ing to specifications to be furnished
by the State Health officer, which
any other literature you may desire
will be gladly furnished for the ask
ing
isolated homes which have their
own water plants may also install
their own sewage disposal plant
This consists of a a water tight ce-
ment vault, a flush compartment
equipped with an automatic siphon
for the intermittent discharge of the
outflow and parallel lines of piping
loosely laid in good bed of sand
some 200 feet away. The piping
connecting the tank and the elter
should be tightly Joined with cement.
A cess pool is little more than a
covered hole in the ground cor
structed for the purpose of allow ins
liquids to percolate off into the ar
rounding soil, hence is dangerous
method 1t merely removes sewage,
too often into the water supply.
With sewage properly disposed of
there remain other waste products
to be removed as garbage or accumu-
lations from the kitchen, rubbish.
ashes and debris of various kinds. A
good way to handle all this material
is to keep 1t separate.
The dry rubbish which consists of
paper. rags, etc, should be thrown
into boxes or barrels. kept dry and
burned.
Collections of animal and veseta-
BILE matter, which in decomposition
becomes medium for fly breeding
had best be kept in metal cans with
tight-fitting covers and at regular
intervals carted off and buried IN
trenches. That part of the refuse
which can be fed to domestic ami
mails, should be done so at distance
and the part rejected collected and
buried as in the former instance
i Ashes can be used to fill in the
low places about the yard.
Non -combustible matter, such AS
tin cans, bottles, broken crockery,
etc, it would be wise to demolish ~
bury. If allowed to remain scat
tered about they generally collect
water and retain it sufficiently long
to breed mosquitoes.
The waste water from the kitchen
should be run through grease ira .
and then piped to some grassy spot
and so distributed through under
drains as to prevent the formal, ION
of pools or mirey places.
1t has been stated by prominent
authority that a single stable Will
supply flies for an extended neigh
borhood Manure, because of its re-
tanned heat and moisture is the pre-
ferred medium for the breedin~ of
flies. A single pound of it taken
from we'll infested pile will be
found to contain as many as from
1900 to 1000 maggots.
Flies have been classed among the
greatest menaces to mankind and
have brought death to more human
beings than all the murdererS,
snakes. wild animals and floods PM
together. During the spanish
American war by feasting on the
contents of the latrines between
meals and the soldiers food during
meals, they carried the germs of ty-
phoid fever from the sick to the We Il
and killed five times as many OF tnr
men who went out to fight for their
country as did the Spanish bullets
The house fly CONVEYS the germ
which causes the spread of cholera
infantum-the black giant that E'llS
so many babies. BY feeding on the
spit of the consumptive. il may carry
and spread the germs of consumption
for several days They have hcSn
known to carry the germs of mails.
nant pustule, the eggs of para site
worms and the Germs of other dis
eases
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