Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-04-24
pictorial Review

0ehrL ana Soul lOtO n fnuniCipt uOuoo-
cleaning campaign If her own home
needs her attention. And when you
are cleaning remember that real. eff
fective house-cleaning goes into dark
corners and hidden spaces. Do not
repaper and paint, and beat and dust
and scour. until you have dug down
to the very roots Of sanitation. Look
to your plumbing. your drainage.
your well and your cistern. Be sure
that all the water which comes into
your house is pure.
Have you a municipal garbage and
refuse collection? II not. sgitate for
it. but in the meantime, do your part
in disposing of what may be germ.
breeder. Keep your refuse in one
container and your garbage in an
other. The latter must be well-cover.
ed and water.tight. Burn your re.
fuse in hole dug for the purpose.
Hire some one to cart away the gar
bage. Never bury it in the ground
near a we'll. 1t is cheaper to have
garbage removed at your personal
expense than to bury baby that has
died from cholera infantum. or to
doctor and nurse q member. OF your
family through typhoid fever.
In Shreveport, Louisiana. they
we're fy.infested and had high
death.rate. The city passed an odd
nance compelling all dealers in food
stuffs and all owners Of stables and
barns to install a huge fy-trap made
| of wire screening. on their premises.
Business men who did not deal in
| foodstuffs and housewives with no
barns on their premises. watched the
fine way in which these great traps
caught and held thousands Of flies.
and through sheer civic pride and de-
sire for cleanliness. everybody.
whether affected by the law Or not.
began to install traps.
LAST year, Shreveport. Louisiana,
made new record. 1t had not a sim
gle death from infantile paraly sis,
and only one death from typhoid. 1t
costs seventy-hve cents year to run
a f1y-trap.
Firrt cou sin to refuse-strewn al
lev is that weed.choked lot between
you and your neighbor. Under the
weeds Turk tin cans with putrefying
foodstuffs hugging their tin sides
and breeding more flies and mos
quitoes, dirty rags that ought to be
burned, half rotten fruits and vege.
tables. perhaps even a dead cat or
dog or rat. Did you ever think what
sort of stuff this is for your children
to t,udge through. when they strike
out across lots on their way to school?
G can it up!
Clean your street. You don't think
much of a woman who sweeps the
dirt from the living roem into the
hall, end then out on the porch. and
finally upon the walk or grass. Do
you think a neatly clipped lawn and
well.kept gravel walks will command
respect from those who pass your
home, if they see that the sweepings
from lawn end walks have been flung
out into the gutter or street? Don't
you Judge neighbor by the condi-
ton of the CUTTERS and streets in
front Of the houses? Don't you see
them first end the front yards and
trim porches next?
Clean your schools. Do you know
whether your schools are kept clean
and how they are cleaned? Do you
know whether they are freed from
dust, germs, or whether they are
Isprinkled with q disinfectaut? There
| lie q great difference between remov'
ing dust aud laying 1t. between dig
lying out germs and numbing them
with disinfectants.
Have you seen the lavatories and
toilet rooms in your local school
houses? Do you know whether the
plumbing is in good condition and
the water supply clean and pure!
Do you know whether your children
use common or individual drinking
cup or a fountain faucet?
Clean your churches. Do you know
how long since the old carpet in the
pulpit or cushions in the pews have
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