The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1916-06-02
ATTENTION TO SANITATION
Urged by DR.. Curry to Help Save
Lives and Money in Kentucky
(Contributed)

State Board of Health, came last
Friday, examined the city of STAN
ford and found it in the same con-
dition IS many other Kentucky towns
without sewerage, and the Board
of Health Sanitary Concrete Closets
for the defecta of the human body,
and he recommended sewering the
town at once, as a health measure
and prevention of disease and an
economic business proposition for the
taxpayers.
A four or six-inch sewer can be
placed On one side of st. Asaph
stream and the creek bed narrowed
so as to have continuous flushing
of all sewage deposits; 5000 or
more concrete sanitary privies have
been placed in the state at a small
cost to each owner of the property.
DR.. Curry is the Sanitary Engineer
of the State Board of Health, and
has to pass upon all water works
plants before they are operated and
to see that they give sanitary and
legal results.
DIR. Currey is an orator, and spe-
cially prepared for his chosen work
of a public benefactor.
The Christian church where the
lecture was held was filled to about
three-fourths capacity and the Pres
byterians and members of the Chris
tian church were there by a large
majority. What the Methodists and
Baptists lacked in numbers, they
made up in quality, aggressiveness
and progressiveness. All who were
there had eager eyes and minds to
see; itching ears to hear and increase
their knowledge of sanitation and
preventive medicine or the proven
ton and, arrest of diseases. An in
structive magic lantern lecture was
presented, dealing with typhoid fe-
yer germs, those of fux, cholera in
fantum, diphtheria, Group, tubercu-
losis, meningitis, la grippe, ophthal-
mia moratorium, trachoma, and 9TH
er contagious and infective diseases,
as measles, scarlet fever, roseola,
small pox, chicken pox, erysipelas.
tetanus and hydrophobia and hook
worm, all preventable. DR.. Currey
said that in the last four years
42,383 cases of typhoid fever occur
red in Kentucky, with 1858 deaths;
41,534 cases. of dysentery and diar-
rhoea in adults and old people with
2,454 deaths and all preventable di-
seases.
Eighty per cent of the diseases of
childhood and corresponding deaths
like typhoid fever and fux are pre-
ventable. Every time an adult dies
the state has lost an earning capac-
ity of 500 to the commonwealth.
All the other infective and conta-
gious diseases can be prevented and
the death rate lowered as stated
above. Infected air, soil, water,
milk, and foods are the chief sources
of communicating the human body
with contagious and infectious di-
seases. If the Kentucky sanitary
privie or an adequate sewage sys-
tenn were in use in every home and
public place in Kentucky, the diSea-
ses and death rate would be reduced
nine-tenths. This saving in money
to the taxpayers would amount to
seven million dollars annually. Dis
raeli, England's prime minister in
his message to his country, said:
"Public health is the foundation up
on which rests the happiness of the
people and welfare of the state"
Let every good citizen pull and push
for the good of humanity; prevent
sickness and deaths, and the COM
monwealth or taxpayers of Kentuc-
ky save seven million dollars each
year.
DR.. Currey's lecture was discuss
ed by Revs. Bruce, Welburn, Wal
ker, and VIM. Severance, and for
the Woman's Club and Civic League
by Mrs. VIM. Severance, j. S. Ows-
ley, j. B. Paxton and other oratorical
speakers, and the ministers or most
of them made prelude to their SER
mons by taking the State Board of
Health and Lincoln County Board of
Health for subjects, endorsing the
good work done by them and urging
every citizen to give, time, influence
and money to this, the greatest
work that is being done in Kenucky.
DR.. Currey made forcible this fact,
that all dogs on public highways or
running at large are nuisance; the
law requires they be muzzled other
wise, killed by the sheriff and his
the town marshal and his
aids and the constable and his dep