The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
WANTS TUSCALOOSA COUNTY SELECTED FOR HEALTH SURVEY Dr. Lumsden Believes Effect Will Be Felt All Over
 The State PEOPLE SHOWING
 FINE COOPERATION Work Now Being Done Is Expected to Have a Fine Effect on
 the Health of the
 Community
Rr HIGH ". ROBERTS

Washington, May 27.-(Special)- l)-Dr. l.. l.. Lumsden of the department or health, is very anxious to make heallh survey of Tuscaloosa county.
 He has agreed to recommend to the aenartment that such a course of action he pursued provided Congress, for the extension of the work of rural santa 4ion. appropriates the sum requested, S5,ooo. It is problematical wnetner UT not Congress will appropriate so large a sum, especially in view of the 1act thai the house has recommended the appropriation of only one-thlrd that amount, or $25,OOO.
 Dr. Lumsden. who has done some WorN in Tuscaloosa proper, will return to that city Saturday morning.
 SIJRyEY IS ESSENTIAL
 He declares that a survey such as was made in Walker county last year IS nec- essary. not only because the county needs such attention, but because US condition is so typical that with great advantage to the work, 1t could be re- ferred to in the future.
 It was the original intention of the department to conduct a survey in not more than one COuhby III S@'NNA S>N0' idea. heinz that from the work done Tn that county, the others, by emulatloh' could procure a part of the peneflt' In- asmuch as Walker was favored In Ala bama, pr. Lumsden is fearful that cer- tain opposition would be raised were he to try to secure for Tuscaloosa, county not only in the same state, put contagious to that county already sur veyed, identical service.
 OUTLOOK IS GOOD
 The health officer, however, believes that from work already accomplished in Tuscaloosa and that to be done follow ing his arrival, there will be no return of the outbreak of typhoid fever with which Tuscaloosa last summer was af- flicted.
 pr. I.umsden said today that the out break last summer was from the usual causes, water milk and the open closet, chiefly the latter He declared the water to be good on an average of 300 days Tn a year. but capable of infection the other 65. He declared the milk supply to be comparatively good, but not as good, hs a whole, as it should be and could be Axnlade He declared that in Tuscaloosa fhere are about 120O open closets.
 .'There is an excellent spirit of CO., operation in Tuscaloosa" continued pr. Lurnsden, land the health officers are energetic, efficient and diplomatic in their relations with the people. The water and milk supply have been and are being treated. A great deal of ex- cellent work, too, has been accomplished in the general movement to eliminate the insantary closet.
 TACKLING THE PROBLEM
 ''There are just two ways in which that result car be obtained. The first is through the extension of water mains and the ether through the adoption of substitute To extend the mains, time and money is required. This is being done, but cannot be completed in time to guard against the approaching dan ger. The substitute consists in equipplng each open closet with portable. metal inlaid wooden boxes, made absolutely in- accessible to flies
 The lumber companies and the hard ware merchants have rallied promptly to the situation, and the equipment is now available and is being reapidly installed. The people are also responding, and the city, through it's sanitary department, has agreed to give the situation through out the summer, that most careful at- tention which is absolutely necessary.
 "As & result, there is every reason to hope that there will be no recurrence or the typhoid epidemic. And I trust that it will be possible to make the survey of the entire county, because that Is necessary complement of the work in