St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-03-09
People Feel That st. Tam
many Has Done More
Than Share.
DOORS HAVE~BEEN
ALWAYS OPEN.
Injury Has Resulted From
Too Much Laxity In
This Respect.


28th has the following:
"A meeting of the tuberculosis
Commission of the State of Louisi-
ana has been called by DR.. M. w.
Swords, secretary of the commission.
for II a. M. Saturday, in the ohlcea
Of the state board of health to con-
slider a proposition made by DR..
Oscar Dowling, president Of the state
board OF health, to the Anti-Tuber-
| culosis League, suggesting that the
league turn over to the state its
property in st. Tammany parish,
known as Camp Hygeia.
Camp Hygeia Is a sanitorium e.,
! tablished by the league for the re-
lief of INDECENT sufferers from tu-
/ berculosis. 1t is proposed that the
state buy additional land adjacent to
the property and establish hospital
for negroes. The present establish
ment, of 81 acres, has provision for
the white persons only.
"Dr Dowling has received a COM
i nunication from the league which
| presages possibilities of relinquish-
| ment of the property to the state.
1T is the duty OF the common
wealth to take care Of its INDECENT
sufferers,' said DR.. Bowling Thurs
day, 'and it seems to me to be emf
nently proper that the state be given
every opportunity to fulnll IL
duty
The people of St. TammAny parish
are up in arms against any such pro-
posed proceeding. st. Tammany
parish people are as cordial and hos
pitable as can be found anywhere.
and they welcomed the sick who
have come here for the benefits Of
it's wonderful climate. but 1t draws
the line at being made the dumping
point for negroes afflicted with tu-
berculosis. 1t has even gone to the
extreme in admitting white people
af1icted with tuberculosis. the only
limitations being made In Covfngton
in an attempt to segregate them In
boarding houses and hotels specially
licensed for that purpose. Its hos
pitality in this respect has been hurt
full in building up its business inter-
ests, and hereafter action will be tax
en- for relief from the handicap OF
being known AZ a resort for people
so afflicted, especially az 1t II ad-
mitted by physicians In high stand
| ing that the disease can be cured
just as we'll, and in some cases bet
ter, at the patients own home.
The following resolution has been
passed by the Association of Com
fC0nfinuAA IN paGo -
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yearly. 1t is also fact that II each
one of us eats one slice less Of wheat
bread than the amount he is accuar
toned to use, we shall save 64,023.-
900 bushels. and IL each individual
saves two instead OF one slice per
day, we would then have 128.O46,-
900 bushels. which amount added to
the IS, 100000 surplus bushels world
| give us the required 22O, 10000
bushels.
| Now, how can the wheat be saved?
Simply by using some wheat saver
! in every batch of bread, biscuits aad
mullins made by the housewife. not
only on wheatless days, /. e., Mon
days and Wednesdays, but on every
day. The following are excellent
wheatsavers: Buckwheat, rye hour.
barley, rice, rolled oats, corn starch.
hominy, corn -four. and the laws re-
quire that one purchase one pound
of any OF the foregoing for every
pound OF -four bought.
We must have cooperation. and
each individual must do his share.
The Vaudeville Ice Factory. locat-
ed near the N. o. g. N. railroad track
on Villere street, between Girod and
Marigny avenue, about 500 feet east
of the railroad depot, was burned
to the ground at 1880 O'Clock Thurs
day morning. The, building and ice
plant is a total loss estimated at
4 100000.
Tho plant was in operation until
about 10 o'clock Wednesday night,
] and while the cause of the fire II
unknown, 1t 10 surmised that 1t was
due to falling ashes from the boiler
: furnace The plant was owned and
operated by Mr.. w. r. Smith and waa
: uninsured. 1t is understood that
Mr.. Smith will rebuild at once.
i Although the Fire Department
: could not save the plant It did save
adjoining buildings and hundreds Of
: cords 81 wood piled In Close prox-
, Unity to the plant. !
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