The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-14
BOARD OF HEALTH SCHOOL
PennS Grove Citizens Enjoying Good
Health Without Fear
STATE BOARD HAS MENTAL MICROBES

The regular meeting of the Board OF
Health of the Borough of Penns Grove
was held Friday evening, 7th. All the
members were present. Edward s.. Har-
ris, president; j. Harry Smith, secre,
tary; Harry L. Bohm, Samuel j. Hurff
and w. A. Summerill.
A new ordinance in regards to p%rivies
was adopted to take the place of the one
adopted last August, at the i~nstigation
of the dupont Company's sanitary engi-
neers and the State Board of Health of
fcials. The requirement of metallic re-
tanners and frequent emptying and the
impossibility to procure scavengers to do
it, besides the needless expense, made the
scientific book-learned constructed priv
les a bigger nuisance than the old fash
Toned ones. The frequency of cleaning
and the exclusion of flies seem to be the
greatest necessity.
The new ordinance was adopted by the
votes of all, excepting Mr.. Blohm, who
Is an employee of the DUPONT Company.
1t is published in another column.
ID. G. Bowen, the State inspector, was
present and took exceptions to the
adoption of the new ordinance. He said
it did not conform to the State Code.
When asked where and what the State
Code is, he replied it was not made yet.
1t was being made.
The sanitary conditions of a few prop
critics was discussed and acted upon and
an early adjournment was made because
of other engagements by some of the
members.
Mr.. Bowen, who was accompanied by
r. B. FitzRandolph, assistant director of
the State department of hygiene, had
something to present to the Board and
because the Board did not take time to
wait on his convenience he said he had
never been treated so discourteously and
did not think he would come again. He
was informed that the rules of the Board
of Health of Penns Grove are as follows /:
81. All complaints of nuisances or
other communications to the Board shall
be in writing, addressed to the President
of the Board, and signed by the party
or parties making the same"
Upon the receipt of all complaints of
nuisances the Board will give due con-
eideration.
The State Board of Health seems to
be running a hot-air newspaper crusade
of a libelous nature against Penns Grove
on imaginary nuisances and diseases
which exist only in the minds of of.
ficials who nave to show up something
to make their employers believe that
they are earning their salaries of State
money. The article in a daily paper last
Saturday said
'"The Penns Grove Board will be mott.
fed again that it must abate all nui-
conoac hu Anil OK arI &c - loac mt
do so, the State Board after that date
will take over the control of sanitary
matters in the town. If existing nui-
sances are not abated before hot weather
the result will be an outbreak of disease
Of many kinds born of filth"
That is the opinion of city-bred book
science sanitary engineers who come in
to Penns Grove for a few hours and go
out again. The same scarecrow was
raised last year and preachers, doctors,
lawyers, sanitarium keepers and others
believed it because it was said so by State
officials and published in daily papers.
But the predictions proved false because
they had formed their opinion on what
they had read in books wherein was told
what had happened in Jacksonville, Cuba
and Panama. They had read of isolated
cases of typhoid outbreaks in New York
and Pennsylvania. Such imaginary dis
eases of the mind have never occurred
in Penns Grove. The best and most
economic remedy will be for those who
have those mental diseases to leave Penns
Grove and stay outside. Old residents
are not such afflicted and not likely to
be until proof is given.
Four of the Penns Grove Board OF
Health are off the old farm way back
from Missouri and must be shown with
visible proofs. As boys they MIXED the
kicking cows which put their dirty feet
into the pail. They rinsed the pail out
with a small quantity of milk, finished
milking and took the remainder to the
house and said nothing about microbes.
They chased the calf around the barn
yard in slushy manure boot-top deep.
They pumped water from the barn we'll
where fifty tons or more of manure were
from five to seventy-ive feet distant.
Drank the water from the we'll and the
milk from the lows which drank the wa
ter. A well in Penn Grove, the water
from which last year showed an excellent
analysis by State chemists, has barnyard
water standing nearly all the time within
twenty-five feet.
These are rare instances in the lives
of all farmer boys and need not deter
anyone from disliking milk or good well
water on the fastidious complaint of city
bred book scientists.
When dupont Company employed
thousands of men who had to be housed
in hastily constructed shacks a year ago
some even slept in cornstalk reaps-
sanitary facilities were made under the
direction of young city-bred book-learned
men. Men came from an parts of the
earth and all kinds of contagious diseases
were expected under the congested condi-
tions. These young men told the local
Board of Health that Penns Grove was
about to be devoured with maligant mi
crobes. The State Board of Health also
believed it and insisted on the same rules
governing Penns Grove as were put in