The Lexington advertiser., 1915-04-02
People Should Pay Attention t
Health.

healLn,
Every community is just what a ma
jority of the people who compose 1t VIII
that il should be. If you want your
town to be the cleanest, pretuest and
freest of disease of any in the state,
get busy right now with your own pre-
misses clean up all dirt, tin cans and
rubbish of every description, place IN
receptacles for removal and notify the
town garbage carts to haul 1t away
clean up, and keep cleaned up, all
horse and COW stables (the natural
breeding places for hies), removing
the manure and scattering it over gar
dens or fields to be spaded or plowed
in, where it furnishes splendid plant
food and increases your crops, Re-
member, no piles of manure, no filth,
no flies. Flies spread disease and
death. Also destroy all breeding places
of mosquitoes by permitting upon your
premises no open rain barrels, tin cans
or other vessels holding water, drain
ing or coal-oiling every ten days all
ponds and bitches holding standing wa
ter, keeping the sides of the bitches
clear of grass and weeds during the
spring and summer months. The peo-
pie should, as far as possible, have
their houses screened, especially their
kitchens and dining rooms, against
flies, and during the mosquito season to
sleep under good bars. Remember, no
mosquitoes, no maIarial teyers, Tor It
is impossible to have malaria except
through the bite of a certain species OF
MOSQUITO, which several days previous
" had bitten some person with maia-
rial germs in his system. 1t IS SAID
this is Ia house mosquito and rarely
flies over two hundred yards from its
breeding place. 1t bites mostly at
night or after sun down. The work OF
destroying mosquito breeding places
in towns must be taken up by the pub
lie officials with authority to inspect
private premises and compel the own
ers to destroy these places.
Many persons agree that public SAM
tation is a good thing but think that
their town can not afford it, These
persons do not undertand what prevent
able diseases are costing their com
munites or they do not understand po-
Iitcal economy. For any one can
afford to spend two dollars if thereby
he can save ten dollars, which he would
do in a case Of preVentable sickness IN
loss of time, drugs and doctor bills. -
1t is cheaper to live in town where
the sidewalks are clean. the streets
sprinkled, the homes supplied with
pure water, the sewage safely cared
for, flies and mosquitoes banlshed, than
it is to live in an unsanltaIy town. 1t
is certainly more pleasant to live IN. a
clean than in an unclean town, and
far more pleasant to be well IN clean
town than sick in an uncIean one.
a | would suggest that each town form
a civic league. The mayor, marshal
and all town officials should belong to
this league, as we'll as all other ctl-
Zens favorable to public sanitation
also the ladies' clubs and several Sun
day schools. Divide the town into
wards, sections or streets, select or
appoint some one as COmmlSs Oner or
manager for each seCtiOn-the mayor
and marshal over aIl-With authority
to inspect private premises, Dack-aI-
! leys and vacant lots, destrOylrg or re-
moving all things offensive to the
health or comfort of the public Force
| the merchants to burn their fuse pa
per and trash instead Of sWc ping il
into back alleys and on the streets. anC
damming the side bitches Of the toWr
streets; also to have all closes on va
cant lots abolished or kept clean.
The mayor should appoint certain
day to commence work, everybody turf
out and go to work, in his or her sec
tion, and keep it up as long as neces
sary to clean the town. Farmers anc
people living in the country are sub
iect to the same diseases as people IlY
ing in towns, and should take the SAM
precautions to avoid them-in fact
thereris more typhoid fever amonl
country people than IN towns, wit
artesian water and proper sewage
See that water from your yard or sta
bic does not seep into your well or CTS
tern, or spring. Haul the refuse tron
your stable on to your garden, or tleld
and pow it in; keep no piles at tn
stable and you will have but few flies
Destroy breeding places of mosqultoe
if you would have no malaria.
The negroes in town should be mad
to clean up and get in a sanitary con
dition also; they may contract disease
and communicate them to whites a
well as to each other.
G. c. PHILLIPS, NJ, D.,
Holmes County Health Officer
II It's TO be printed, ring No. III