Arizona republican., 1916-12-24
CLUB NOTES
:=: Official Organ State Federation of Clubs :=::

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 to operate correctly. The ideal, as far as we know now, seems to be q i series of ceptic tanks followed by d | flow through q Altering bed before cmptying into any stream. These septic tanks are said to remove g <, per cent of typhoid and other germs, each, out by using three tanks and d i Altering bed. 98 per cent of pollution 1 is removed, and the water is pure anu ! healthy enough to drink if necessary. ! l have been told by several people ! that Tempe and Mesa are using but { one septic tank each, and then letting 1 it empty into q stream, regardless of | those who live below.
 The garbage is still an unsettled i and then another. Outside of the larger cities. town authorities rarely seem to look after garbage disposal , AS d rule, some Individual comes around and collects 1t for q stipulated ! sum per weei. and then he feeds it l to his pigs or chickens. Any old i wagon and any old can will do. IL | is certainly within twenty five years i that New York made the rule that c;tns should be covered while await : ing their disposal, and that only cer- i tain types Of wagons should be used l for collecting garbage. I suppose in i most small towns pigs are the final i depository of garbage. It isn't pleas ant to think upon, but We know they can eat rattlesnakes without d qualm.
 and l knew q colored man down in
 Mississippi who fed his pigs strych- nine every spring to keep his neigh bors from stealing them, while he worked in the fields, and by autumn they Were perfectly safe to eat, so he could do his fall hutchering; there f"'+ garbage cannot hurt them for
 use. .iA..s When towns do take up the care Of garbage, incinerators are used and many private families, hospitals , and hotels use them. too.
 The open garbage can is q de-
 ciced menace 10 health as well as cleanliness and decency, because or
 the flies and because of the gases
 from decayed food: though I have <, heard people say: Well, 1 think I'm l clean enough, so that the garbage | from my house won't hurt anybody | one of the foremost factors of health
 and cleanliness is the air we breath l and where there are bad odOrs, as 1 rule there are bad gases and bad ; gases c:roonize the air and lessen the 1 percentage of oxygen. The same can | Dc s.lid of smoke which, with dust offend all three of the Fundamentals i Of he1ith-dust and smoke are dirty ! offend the eye. cause irritation of | he mucous membrane, fill the pores
 of the skin and carry germs
 | Our dltches are d source of trouble i that many towns never have to con- | slider. People not only wash their
 clothes in ditch water but their bodies ! as well. Animals and children play 1 Tn the fitches, refuse is thrown into 1 them some have their drainage run | mo them and some even drink the
 water All the way to Roosevelt. peo-
 pie are warned about drinking the 1 river water, bat it still is done The ltutrde seems to be. We help pay 1 Tor teat dam, why shouldn't We drink i the water if We want tC' The h. ! dian farmer from the Lehi reserva . ton says it is impossible to make 1 the indians understand the need Of | good welIs--their fathers drank that
 water. why cant they. So, last Sep | temb@r over thirty babies died of
 ever caused by impure water.
 TEe food Of town is another i'm i portant tactof In the east, commits
 slons are appointed to investigate the | source Of supply Of fruits, vegetables.
 meats dairy products. their storage
 and their places of sale. Take the
 sodlce of supply of our home grown | products: How many housewives ! throw their dishwater and other f kltchen waste water right out of tho ! kitchen door. where children. chick
 ems. cats, dogs and flies have free l access 70 Ii? l know a German 1 women who came to live in Mesa. i who ;old me she was mortified at the
 way the women right in town threw | out water. saving that even bedroom 1 siops were just given fling out the 1 nearest door. Many Of these same l people Keep chickens who have to 1 depend on these casual door offerings
 for their drinking water Again. the i water from the house is drained onto | che vegetable patch. The boiled
 vegetables are all right, but what
 about salads, such as lettuce onions
 radishes. and so forth? We must ! take into consideration affected sub-
 soils and drainage from corrals and | barns, too. Some of the more scien- ufic farmers spray their vegetables against disease and bugs: that spray
 isn't always well washed off, and even when they are cooked the poison 1 may still be in the water We have all heard over and over again of milk purity: the troubles that may come 1 rom siclily COW, cows drinking i'm pure water, or milked by dirty men ] m q dirty place, or by men with some dlSe2 SC. Other food may be as dan
 gerous, though milk is more easily
 and readily affected. After food reaches the storage it may easily be | affected by dirty warehouse Meats, eggs. and what are called moist gro-
 ccries like butter and cheese, are
 readily contaminated even by smells.
 Then when they get to the shop, there are flies. dust, induisitive fingers of 1 passers-by as well as buyers and
 sellers. We should be careful of the
 health of our market men. as tuber-
 cular people may affect food as well
 as those with venereal and other blood disorders and running sores. Many purveyors of food see no need
 of washing their hands until the dirt
 sticks out on them, and then they
 just rinse them under faucet and
 dry them on any" old rag or gunny-
 sack, leaving them chapped and raw.
 1T nothing else There is some tall;
 in the east of having a legislation
 bringing handlers of food products under the control of the healtl,
 authorities. especially cooks. walters pand kitchen hands in public eatine , places and of forcing them to have
 q health certificate.
 Fate has been very kind to us in . this valley, as we have no worries l about the healthful location of ouI , towns, and we couldn't have had bet ter provision for a. natural disinfect , ant owing to the prevalence of oui , all-powerful sunshine. I was told f upon coming here. that the full rays f of the Arizona sun would in eight minutes kill any germ exposed to it II Another thing that is closely. re.
 lated to public health. cleanliness anc
 decenCy is the body clOthino am