South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-14
HEALTH BOARD HEAD
TELLS COUNCIL OF NEEDS
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the janitor of the city hall up TO
the mayor. including every council
man. and citizens with civic pride.
we can clean this city as II never
has been cleaned. improve the health
OF the community and lower its
death rate Complaints are solicited
and when received by the board OF
health will be promptly attended TO
but complainants must keep us no.
tilted II our orders TO offenders are
not complied with. The sanitary
condition OF the city should be Of
interest to every citizen for upon 1t
depends his own safety and that of
his family and friends
Cleanliness Needed.
Cleanliness can do just as much
In the prevention of disease. We
can do away with the garbage, offal
and NTH in which noxious micro
organisms thrive and multiply to
dangerous numbers. Swatting the
fly is a good thing but il is better
TO have no flies TO swat for these
pests are great disseminators Of dis
ease as carriers of germs If all
breeding places of flies could be
destroyed there would be less sick
ness. You don't know over what
putrid. hlthy, corrupt disease pro-
ducing mass that fly crawled and
Toasted upon before it drowned in
the milk fed to the baby and then
the family wondered how the little
one became sick When the minis
ter came in and tried TO comfort the
mourners he libered God by saying
il was His will the little soul had
gone to join the angels. Ignorance
and carelessness were responsible
for that babes illness and death.
There were a great many cases
of typhoid fever in this city last
summer and fall. There will be
many this year. Why? Because
many or the conditions responsible
for that disease are still present
Our drinking water is better but the
insanitary privies are just as bad
and there can be no questions that
these were the cause Of very much
Of the typhoid last year.
Scientific medicine has estab-
lished these four things to a GER
tainty: First. that typhoid fever
is preventable disease: second.
that typhoid fever is caused by the
germ bacillus coli. or bacillus ty-
phosus; third. that the bacillus coli
enters the system by the mouth:
fourth, that typhoid fever is the
chief disease conveyed by impure
food and drink
Swat the Fly.
Flies. after visiting privies where
they crawl over the filthy discharges
they contain, go TO your dinner table
and get into your butter or gravy
without wiping their feet, unisss il
be on your bread or meat, End leave
the typhoid germs where they will
get into your system and then YOU
will speculate as to where the dis
ease was contracted. Let US elimin-
mate the fly. Better still let us
eliminate the places from which
the fly conveys the infection.
Every privy is a menace, not
only in the neighborhood where il
Is located but in the whole citv-to
any one who might tarry in its
Vicinity for refreshments Every
one can be helpful in Riding tho
city Of these insanitary and danger
Gus nuisances inspection OF a chart
In the health Office showing the To-
cation of nearly every one in the
city limits Will occasion surprise al
their number) by urging those liv-
Ing where sewer connection. can be
had TO do away with them and in
stall flush closets. This win save
doctors bills, loss OF time. impaired
health. funeral bills and hearta ches.
for their is going TO be typhoid fe-
yer here this year. unless conditions
are changed. and any OF Us may be
the first victim with family end
friends to follow"