The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1917-01-17

PERTINENT SUGGESTIONS BY GREENWOOD Civic LEAGUE
To All Citizens and Property Owners
of Greenwood.


Our health officers say that in order to have perfect
ly sanitary town and thus healthy it is necessary
to do the following:
What the corporation railroads, telephone company,
mills factories etc, can do is to the following;
That the Railroad rights-ofway not used as a
dumping ground The section Bosses using the section
hands day part of day each week to keep the
railroad property cean painting all tool houses and other
property with coat of pretty olive green and also keep
ing the railroad grounds we'll drained so that the
spring advances there will not be many breeding places
for mosquitoes
The Telephone Company to white-wash all telephone
poles from the ground up ten twelve feet and have all
material stacked in orderly the ground
which they are kept.
The Factories and Lumber mills to have all trash kept
off their grounds and their material stacked in orderly
and the ground WELL DRAINED in order to elm
mate the mosquitoes breeding places.
What the Electric Light and Water Commission do
Give complete sewerage in Mcshane Wilmington
and Austin Wright Additions
What the Manager of the Light and Water Plant
do
Keep the premises around the plant clean and neat
ookng and clean the lot and arrange the material Of the
plant in orderly manner and DRAIN the lot we'll
What the Street Department do:
Give us systematic removal Of garbage the col
lecors of garbage sprinking all after empying
them and the garbage on the wagon with dsinfecants
keep surface drainage bitches constructed to proper
level that the water will not remain in the bitches at the
centers of the blocks until it DRIES out using drainage
pipe where bitches are deep to be left open Keep
weeds in the cutters cut Furnish sanitary garbage
ons that garbage will not be dropped along the streets
over which it is hauled.
PUT TO USE the hitching place bought sometime ago.
Assist property in improving the parking along
the side walks Give inspection for meat before
and after butchering; and sanitary officer who Is
house keeper.
What the Police Department do:
See that animals htched in proper places Enforce
laws in regard to sanitation and wish to call atte
ton particularly the law against splitting the streets
this seems to have passed out of our minds.
What the Public Buildings Department can do
See that flowers and trees planted around all pub
lie buildings and that the grounds are kept in neat con-
dton having all piles of dirt old brick etc. removed and
all unsantary things removed Install shower baths for
the prisoners who must be kept in the cage" at the City
Hail. that these people may how agreeable it feels to
be clean See that property debris from
lots where fire wind or age has destroyed houses.
What the Board of Commissioners do a Leg
islative Body:
Give us re-enactment Of the former Hog Ordinance
which will work.
Give us an ordinance requiring each residence to have
covered garbage which can be handled by man.
Give us ordinance requiring owners of chickens to
keep them on their own premises
What Citizens do:
Try to feel personal interest and responsibility with
regard to the good Of the town. obeyng the laws and
helping the officers to that others obey them too.
Help the City in a financial way, by burning all gar
bage, trash etc. which be burned, such paper,
leaves wgs and scraps of food your houses places
business instead Of allowing your servants to pile them
in the streets that the wind scatter them and the
drivers and mules of the Street Department will not spend
nearly half the time devoted to hauling away things
these things which with little and attention can
be burned at hcme.
Have coal houses opening the alley back of your
sores and do not keep your coal the side walks
the road ways.
Keep all crates and boxes from accunulating the
side walks.
See that your porters, antors etc. do not sweep all
the trash from your stores the lots alleys back
of them and leave there but get wire receptacle and
have the trash put in it and burned very day.
Clean all animal refuse from lot and stable at least
every second day and place where the strike it,
sprinkng it with solution Of pound Of borax to
twenty-five gallons Of water
Have sanitary garbage and keep 1t covered.
Keep ashes cans bottles scraps Of iron, etc separate
from the regular garbage.
As soon you empty Of vegetables meats etc,
cut whole in the bottom to water from standing
in thus furnishing breeding places for mosquitoes
Don't let's forget that when leave things around
which make for i'll health responsible for the suf
erng and sometimes the death of somebody who dear
to of us.