The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-02-14
To AlhCitizens and Property Owners
y of Greenwood.

~ Our health officers say that in order to have perfec
y sanitary town and thus healthy one it is necessar
Ito do the following:
What the corporation railroads, telephone compan,
mills, factories etc. do is to to the following
4 That the Railroad rights-ofway are not used as
dumping ground The section Bosses using the secto
hands one day part of day each week to keep tn
railroad property cean painting all tool houses and othe
property with coat of pretty olive green and also keer
ing the railroad grounds well drained 80 that as tn
spring advances there will not be many breeding place
! for mosquitoes. t
II The Telephone Company to white-wash all telephon
poles from the ground up ten twelve feet and have
material stacked in orderly the ground OF
which they are kept
The Factories and Lumber mills to have all trash KEEP
Of their grounds and their material stacked in order,
manner and the ground WELL DRAINED in order to elm
mate the mosquitoes breeding places.
What the Electric Light and Water Commission can do
Give us complete sewerage in McShane, Whittingto,
and Austin Wright Additions.
What the Manager of the Light and Water Plan
can do r.
Keep the premises around the plant clean and neat
ookng and clean the lot and arrange the material of the
plant in an orderly manner and DRAIN the lot WE'LL
What the Street Department can do:
Give us systematic removal of garbage; the col
lectors of garbage sprinkling all after eptying
them and the garbage the wagon with disnfectants;
keep surface drainage bitches constructed to
level that the water will remain the bitches at the
centers of the blocks until it DRIES out using drainage
pipe where bitches too 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 htching place bought sometime ago.
Assist property owners in improving the parking along
the side walks Give US an inspection for meat before
and after butcherng; and sanitary officer who is
house keeper. ~ ts'-'.,s< t.,-,~e'a s,4.
What the Police Department can do:
See that animals are hitched in proper places Enforce
laws in regard to sanitation, and wish to call atten-
on particularly to the law against splitting on the streets
as 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 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 the age" at the City
Hail. that these people may how agreeable it feels to
be clean See that property debris from
lots where fire or wind age has destroyed houses.
What the Board Of Commissioners can do as Leg
sative Body:
Give re-enactment Of the former Hog Ordinance
me which will work.
Give us ordinance requiring each residence to have
covered garbage which be handled by man.
Give us ordinance requiring owners of chickens to
leep them on their premises
What Citizens can do
Try to feel personal interest and responsibility with
egard to the good of the town. obeyng the laws and
elpng the officers to that others obey them too.
Help the City in financial way, by burning all gar
age, trash etc. which can be burned, such as paper
wgs and scraps of food at your houses places
BUSINESS instead of allowing your servants to pile them
the streets that the wind can scatter them and the
rivers and mules of the Street Department will not spend
early half the time devoted to hauling away things on
hese things which with little care and attention can
e burned at home
Have coal houses opening on the alley back Of your
tores and do not keep your coal the side walks or
n the road ways
Keep all crates and boxes from accumuating on the
de walks
See that your porters janitors etc. do not sweep all
,e trash from your stores the lots alleys back
them and leave it there, but get wire receptacle and
ave the trash put in it and burned very day.
Clean all animal refuse from lot and stable at least
second day and place where the sun can strike it,
orinkng it with solution Of one pound Of borax to
venty-fve gallons Of water.
Have a sanitary garbage can and keep it covered.
Keep ashes cans bottles scraps of iron etc. separate
ON the regular garbage.
AS soon you empty Of vegetables, meats, etc.,
whole in the bottom prevent water from standing
thus furnishing breeding places for mosquitoes
Don't let's forget that when we leave things around
hch make for i'll health responsible for the suf
ring and sometimes the death of somebody who is dear
some Of us. j.