Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-06-04

1T l. not question of whether Browns
vile wants to clean mp and stay clean, =
said DIR. w. B. Collins 1T must BE- done
Clean up your cay and ! will tighten the
quarantine regulations against Mexico. inn
prove the quarantine station and increase
the force of river guards.
Twenty ordinary laborers under the di-
rection III the local health officers. aided
by the womcn's clubs which presume YOU
have. can follow a systematic course Of
cleaning and leave the city with nothing 10
fear from the loathSome diseases bred w
filth. DO not imagine that yours j. the
only city where such n dirty condition eN-
i~ts. When leave here shall W IL ri
Pa~o. which j. III the same box You people
are in. All border ports of entry for
refugees from the terrorized. starved aud
diseased region south Of ~ will have IN W.
watched carefully this summer All sea
ports are being rigidly ~afcyuarded |
have come here because any border city L.
a danger point for the whole state"
DIR. Collins announced that DIR. LiDcecum
will put ON a rat survey" here and nitro
duced his assistant To the assembly "a cx-
PLAIN bit about ways and means Of clean
ing up DR. Lincecum then spoke no
length. and his statements aroused those
present to n realization of what y gong
OH here that the layman possibly never
suspects
There j. yellow fever now IN some ot
the ports of Central America and I'm time
it j. almost sure to drift up to Brownsville.
conditions in Mexico being a. they are.
said DIR. LIncccum. Wipe out every
~tegomyia mosquito IN Brownsville and You
can let refugees with yellow fever into
Brownsville by the score. If YOU care to.
There will be- no fear Of contagion. But
keep on allowing the stegomyia 60 breed
here. get one yellow fever ease INTO the
city by accident. and then see where YOU
are. | can say on the authority of the
state board Of health that We would bottle
up Brownsville a. tight a. bottle II
champagne. Wipe out the mosquito. ] re-
peat. and YOU wipe out the risk Of being
cut of from the world with 'yellowjack.' .
A few Of the facts Dr. Lincecum brought
out were:
In the month Of May Brownsville lost
$2s. 200 in human life by one disease alone
Bowel trouble killed Il children under
two years Of age last month, according Il
the death records AT the city hail. The
money value Of two year old baby. rec
koning from hs future earnings or pro
ducing power IL the child grows "a ms
turity l. 1900. .'If there De any who look
on saving babies a. primarily an expense,
DR. Lincecum said, smiling, che can be an
swered on his own premises. Thus mites
I ltlnal disease comes from two sources
unclesn milk and the house fly IL l.
strictly preventable-if the house fly ant
the filthy dairy are made a thing of tn,
past"
There are some clean places IN the ter
ritory DR. Llncccum has been able 10 cover
| IN the short time he has been in Browns
vile. he says There are many more thai
are nothing short Of filthy.
Malaria. typhoid fever and tuberculosi.
are more than disea>e---they are crimes
DIR. Lincecum asserted. Each l. absolutel,
lpreventable. and it, sufferance J. a felon,
against society Brownsville j. happIl,
free of typhoid fever.
Brownsville has $4,000 people and