The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-02
SMYRNA CIVIC LEAGUE.

clded 10 observe Cleanup week, Ap-
ril 9Th to 18th. They have adopted
the rules suggested by the State
Board of civics. The article writ
ten by Emory Park, M. D., for the
general federation of women's clubs
is unanimously adopted by the Smyr-
ma Civic League. 1t is as follows:
Written by Emory R. Park, NJ D.,
for the Georgia Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs and the State Board of
Health.
The Streets of Jerusalem were
kept clean by everyone sweeping by
his own door, and at this late date
history is about to repeat itself in
this respect, the scene shifting, how
ever, from Jerusalem to America,
and from the streets to private pre-
misses. Cleanup week is becoming
to be officially recognized as ma
tional institution, and Georgia's
Governor, at the request of the Fed
Grafton Club Women of the State has
recently issued a proclamation to
the effect that the week of April
5-12th be celebrated as cleanup
week for this commonwealth.
In this connection the State
Board of Health desires to express
it's approval of this laudable inter
prise, and to again point out the
fact that we hope the time will soon
come when instead of having just
one week in a year for this work,
we will have fifty-two of them. That
this will finally be brought about
is indicated in measure by the
fact that whereas the cleanup cru
SADIE used to only occupy one day,
an entire week is now set aside for
it.
We also wish to express the hope
that Georgia is not going 70 wash
its face in the more or less indiffer-
ent manner of the small boy, but we
trust that the state will scour back
of it's ears as well. Emphasis should
be laid on the point that merely
shifting filth from one place to an
other isn't sufficient, nor does bur
rying suffice in all instances; it
should be burned or disinfected. Fly
eggs deposited on filth before the
filth is buried will hatch out just
the same, and the flies burrow their
way to the surface. Again, heavy
rains may very easily soak into the
well or spring, carrying a solution of
the buried substance to contaminate
the drinking water. Scraping the
manure from the lot and stables and
putting it in a pile possibly en-
hances landscape, but does not par
ticularly promote the healthfulness
of the community. Manure placed
in heaps generates heat and fly eggs
are Matched out thereby like hen
eggs in an incubator. Manure
should be collected at least each
anu SCdlLSlcu Ill d Iulu LAY
over the fields. Flies prefer to lay
in manure piles, and in three days
the eggs hatch into magots and in
seven more days become fully de-
veloped hen and rooster flies; each
hen capable of laying one hundred
and fifty eggs without the least diff
ficulty, and further capable of re-
peating this performance four times
during the season.
Of all the menaces to public
health, the open-back toilet stands
first and foremost. Until all howell
movements and urinary discharges
from human beings are kept from
flies, and from draining into wells,
springs and municipal water sup
plies, we are going to have hook
worm disease, dysentery and typhoid
fever. Families not having sewer
age should be compelled to have a
sanitary toilet and to keep it sani-
tary. The State Board of Health
will gladly furnish plans free of
charge. Write now for copies
MRS. o. l.. TIMOTHY,
Publicity superintendent.