The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-04
HATTlESBURG'S GRADE OF
92.9 PER CENT STANDS
"You Have Done Well" He Tells
County Health officer-WilI Com
pare Favorably With Any Other
Mississippi Towns - In Honorable
Mention Class-WiIl Enforce Board
of Health Rules.

ably with any one of the other 40
Mississippi cities and towns entered
In the cleanest city contest which
closed April go"
This is the official statement of DR..
Willis Valley, chief sanitary officer
of Mississippi, following a careful in
spection of Hattiesburg, made yester-
day and last night.
"'The general average obtained by
the city, as shown by the grades CIV
en- by DR.. Donald, county and city
health officer, and the Rev. E. j. Cur
rie, superintendent of schools, the
two judges, was 929 per cent. This is
a fair grading, and will not be lower
ed by me-"
DR.. Valleys investigation and in
spection proved that the city, at the
eleventh hour, went to work to finish
removing the debris and rubbish
which it had failed to rid itself of on
Cleanup Day His announcement
that the city not only will be given
position in the Honorable Mention"
class, but also deserves especial men
ton, will be received with much graft
tude by the persons behind the clean
up movement For time it looked
as if Hattiesburg would be cleft out
of the running" in the contest.
DR.. VALLEY, to The News, following
his inspection. issued statement, in
which he spoke of the fairness shown
by DR.. Donald and Mr.. Currie in max
ing their grades.
Grading Is Fair.
''The grading was very fair and abb
solutely impartial, as was shown by
second inspection which I made my
SELF" Dr. VALLEY said. 'The city will
compare favorably with any one of
the other 40 cities and towns in the
cleanup contest The average of 92.9
per cent given by DIR. Donald and Mr..
Currie is a fair grading. 1 will not
lower these figures, at all"
Dr. VALLEY said that the general ar
pearance of the city is good. 'Hat-
tiesburg's streets, it's water supply,
and It's schools are excellent" he con-
tinued "a new slaughter house is
being erected here, which, when COM
pleted, will compare favorably with
any other like establishment in Mis-
sissippi."
He said that the standards of Hat
tiesburg's cafes, however, are not as
high as he would like to see them.
s'Some of the restaurants, was sorry
to find are not of as high a class as
the city deserves and would support"
DR.. Valley found that the city jail.
after a careful inspection, was in a
clean condition. more light and ven
tilation, however" he continued, "are
necessary to make of the old building !
a No. i structure. This has been
promised u.s."
DR.. Valley found that the bakeries |
of the city. also were in need of some
improvements. Concerning these, he
had this to say: s3. sl.-
s"An inspection of the bakeries re-
veals the fact that Hattiesburg is
without strictly up-to-date bakery.
None of the bakeries is screened as
well as It should be in order to keep
out the flies. and In some of them,
very important features do not meet
the requirements of the Board of
Health The condition OF Hatties-
burs's bake shops must be improved,
and only weeks time has been given
for the necessary improvements to be
made. as S& os.east as@
Another inspection Soon.
I'VE will make another inspection
of the bakeries next week TO see that
our instructions have been carried
out"
Concerning the local bottling works,
he said: The Hsttiesbnrg. .hottlins
cAntinusd - rass Two.