The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-02-03
WHAT SUMTER MISSED
Grccnville County is Now Rcon;nr
Benefit OF Health Survey.
GreenVille Piedmont.

tanned in the January number of the
American Journal of Public Health.
copies of which have been receival
here. The Journal is the official Organ
OF the American Public Health ASSOC
citation. and has a circulation through.
out the United States. and in various
other parts Of the world.
The article contains some OF tho
best things that can be said about 8
community from a standpoint of
healthfulness, and will doubtless have
great effect in further spreading
Greenville's growing reputation for
being good place to live. The article
in full is as follows:
Boosting Greenville. is the
sanitary survey that must. not be
taken in the same spirit as a dose Of
castor oil: 1T tastes bad, but it's best
for you in the end" Greenville. s. c..
however, receives a distinct pat on the
back from DR.. l.. Lumsden of the
United States public health service.
In the Journal of the South Caro-
lima Medical Association for Novem-
Der, 1915, DR.. Lumsden is quoted as
follows:
"Greenville county probably has the
highest sanitary index in the United
States. That is. no other county, pre-
dominantly agricultural, shows such
fine sanitary index.
Seventy per cent. of the homes in
this county are in good sanitary con.
dition.
Eighteen per cent. of the 11,751|
homes visited by the public health men
have complied with all sanitary sug-
gestions, and hundreds of others will
do so.
THE city of Greenvile is the only
city have found in the United States
where no suggestions as to sanitation
We're needed. The city board of health
has put into operation improved sani.
tary ideas. SO Greenville city is a
leader today in matters pertaining to
public health. Typhoid fever is prac-
ticaly extinct in the city.
Typhoid fever in the county has
been reduced by half this year. 1T is
probable that coming years will sec
this disease cut down 90 per cent. as
result Of the work done and the
Willingness to comply with sanitary
rules. ss 4a
"All Incorporated towns and all un-
tncorpor Ted .toWna-are either install-
Ing or have Installed sanitary ,sys-
tems for refuse disposal. Greer,
Simpsonville. Fountain Inn, West
Greenville and other communities arc
doing what has been suggested by the
public health service.
I'm the county are twenty-one mill
villages, counting one cotton seel oil
mill. Three of these are in the city.
SO are already sanitary. Fifteen Of
the eighteen have completed, or near
ly completed. the installation of sani-
tary systems. In eleven villages the |
work is completed. One village has
ordered the sanitary equipment, and
the one not yet in line with the work |
will do what has been sus ,ested.
Rural schools are rapidly comply
n q slt0 90
tation.
Your county has made the wiser
expenditures it could make in the Gre
alton of county health offices. The
same Is true of your city. The high
est recommendation you can have is |
the health condition you show. 1t is
now for the people to continue the
work. to place proper valuation upon !
life and health"
The foregoing eulogy was delivered
at public health celebration which |
formed the elimination of an OK
tensive sanitary survey of the county !
and city Of Greenville- made BY the !
United States public health service,
the South Carolina state board of |
health and the city and county health
acting in cooperation.
The survey consumed nearly a year, |
and we read that practically every !
home. numbering about $4,000 in !
Greenville county. has been visited by
these sanitary experts. All Of the cot !
ton mills. number about twenty out |.
side Of the city Of Greenville, have |
received the most careful sanitary in !
VCstigations"
A street pageant. characterized as
1.-The finest ever seen in Greenvllc.'
was part OF the celebration and i'll |
cluded fifty-fivc hc0ts. mounted mar |
SLalS, two companies Of coast artillery !