Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-08-23
DRIVING OUT DISEASE
The Way II Vas Done In "Sprinofeld'

had children, ana eacn OF lheii
lived in a nest of dots.
Certain areas of the city, said
the epidemiologist ARE free nom
these dots. Here are the places OF
the well-to-do. Do not think, how
ever, that this gives them any i'm
munity from infection. Look at
them. They are merely islands in
sea of disease centers. On Grand .
Avenue your very best homes are
built. From Grand Avenue the |
ground descends abruptly into
neighborhoods Of wage earners.
The dots flank Grand Avenue on
both sides. Let us suppose, Mr..
Mayor, that you live on Grand
! Avenue!"
The mayor moved uncomfort-
ably. He did live on Grand Ave-
nue.. SO did Mrs. John Smith.
you have servants who live in
the unsewered area. They go
back and forth. These closets are
unprotected from flies, rats, cats,
dogs or poultry. A fly, a thousand
flies, may come-and undoubtedly
do come every day-from these
masses of poison to your kitchen
or into your dining room. | need
not dilate upon this. You know
what the results may be. Flies
, are the worst enemy of the human
race-eXcept possibly mankind
, but they are not the only carriers
: of disease germs. Cats, dogs, do
| nestle animals, sparrows, ali the
, unnoticed living things which feed
< upon ordure and migrate from
; place to place by night, by day
through the air, under ground
! all these creatures are coadjutors
y, with the fly. There is no way OF
making a city a safe place II
which to live without making
, everybody and everything SAM.
! tary in that city, high and low
poor and rich, members CT Grace
! Episcopal Church and of the Cal
Z vary Mission. | have spoken OF
he sewage in your city water, bu
here we have twenty-thrce hun
dred and thirty dangers which are
= much greater menace.
The epidemiologlst sits down
Not one person is unconvlnced
The city solicitor is called an,
/, provides a proposed ordinance TO
| the conversion Of the insanitar,
,, dry closets into sanitary ones, OF
=. plans provided by the epidemic!
, &c ogist. The people charge the en-
. trenchmentS of conservatism an
~ the entertainments give way. Tn
- commission passed the Ordinanc
~ through two readings without de
: bate. There is no argumen
against it. On the next Thursda
rs evening the law permitted the OF
+ dinance to be given its third an
al last reading and final passage.
TO But the next morning new ele
" ment is heard from. Mr.. jon
y Smith and a delegation preser
e. themselves to protest against sue
; legislation. Mr.. John Smith ha
IN many little h gu SEES Scattere
~ throughout the city which he rem
e8 for from five to twenty dollars pc
II. month. The taxes on his prope
o. ty are already burdensome. H
Il has held the property for man
ne years. They are a losing prop
lie sition He is land poor anyho'
nt and if the city is going to jun
eel on him just because lot of GU
up side theorists have come to tow
OF working up excitement as to II
ur health conditions in good o
healthy Springfield, man with
nj little property may just as we
he give up. he says. A special NEE
re- ing of the commissioners was ca
Ell ed for the next Monday night f
s." the purpose of killing the new sa
az itary ordinance.
ne In the meantime, however, Re
all Mr.. Adair gets to work. N
in people are the hrSt TO ole IN |
ed attack which disease makes on
lb. every summer" he says. The fl
no lowing Sunday fourteen sermo
ce, were preached in Springfield
the the subject of sanitation.
the Springfield is considerably n
My up" on Monday. The Federati
oil of Labor have passed resolutl
oil in favor of the ordinance. The F
ere tary Club has held special ne
BILE ing at which it declared that
eir good name as we'll as the moral
vas and intelligence of Springfield W
Eat handing in the balance; and
sed Chamber of Commerce has ;
pointed delegation to attend
ed, special meeting. The epidemic
Dits gist is not especially invited to