The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-06-21
That 10 Statement OF Or. A. r,
Lewis, State Health Commits
sioner at ,Mass Meet Held
In City Hall on Monday
STATE WILL TAKE OVER
SYSTEM IF NECESSARY
Sending Man Here Soon to Work
With Local Wafer Employees;
II Operation Not Proper state
Is Due to Act.

"You have an excellent water sys.
tom In Chickasha and all you need
Is n competent man to operate IT,"
declared DIR. u. II. Lewis. state
health commissioner at mass meet
.dg which was held at the city hall
Monday afterntn n In accordance with
a call issued by Rotary and Lions
clubs and presided over by Dr.. A.
n. Leeds. I'VE want to help you get
your water in good condition and
keep II that way and to this end we
shall send our sanitary engineer
here TO spend month or more for
the purpose OF working with your Of
ficials. There are no serious troubles
to be corrected and | see no reason
why you should not have pure
water. We make no threat but
deem IL proper to say that unless
your plant is properly operated, we
shall be compelled to send man
here to operate 1t at your expense"
DR.. Lewis read the report OF his
sanitary engineer who came to
Chickasha last week at the call of
city officials. The report attributed
the condition of the water to the
fact that the chlorinator was out. of
commission part OF one day during
the latter part of May. 1t recon-
mended better methods Of operation
and suggested some improvements
at the plant, including the building
of BATTLE walls In the settling basins,
change in location of chlorinator, an
automatic method of operating chlor-
inc apparatus. ETC.. the recommended
tlons being the same as those given
to the press last week.
DR.. Lewis also read reports of the
state chemist on samples of water
taken from the mains during several
days in June, showing it to be bad.
II was also brought out at the meet
ing that the testing apparatus in
stalled by the city upon recommends
teton of the state health department
showed the water to be good. City
Engineer Milligan. in charge of the
testing apparatus, stated that the
sanitary engineer told him that he
was operating the appartus properly.
No explanation was made of the dis
<crepancy between the results of the
city tests and the analysis of the
state chemist.
Dr. E. L. Dawson, city health Off
Ger stated that he. had nothing what
evel to do with the operation of the
water plant. Alderman Dubose ex-
planned that during the five hours
the chlorilator was not in use, while
changes were being made at th9
plant, the water which was run
into the mains was mixed with $780,
600 gallons of water in the wells
which had been heavily chlorinated
and therefore was not unchlorinated
water. He estimated that the water
going into the mains at that time
carried 3 IL pounds of chlorine, per
1000 gallons, which he thought was
sufficient to purify it. He stated that
for some time about 5 IL pounds
had been used, which was more than
the state required. Mr.. Dubose also
told about the city having been de-
layed = five months in installing
new filter as result Of action of
state health officers, who, however,
finally approved the filter which was,
installed. -. h
The only action, taken lat the meet
ing was the adoption of resolution
requesting theu city to employ a
competent man to manage the
water plant and to operate it in ac-
cordance with the recommendation
of the state sanitary engineer" Dr.
Lewis remained at the city hall for
some time after the meeting, con-
ferring with Mr.. DuBose and other
city officials who assured him that
they would cooperate with the state
health department.
'The state health department is
making war on typhoid fever which
is a preventable disease said DIR.
Lewis. I'VE want to stamp out fever