Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1923-09-13
CLEANUP WEEK
BEING IGNORED
Health Officer Finds Many
Breeding Places For
Mosquitoes.

County Health Officer Rob-
erson was in Wiggins yesterday
to see how Cleanup Week was
progressing. He had announced
several days ago that this week
should be known as Cleanup
Week and called on the people
Of the town to help in making
Wiggins cleaner and more sani-
tary.
Following is a statement
from DR.. Robertson, issued yes
terday after he had made a
thorough investigation:
"One week ago, as your Coun-
~ Health Officer, l designated
Sept. 10th to 18th, inclusive, as
"Clean-Up Week" for the town
of Virgins, calling on the peo-
pie, officers and property owners
for their cooperation. | was
much surprised on my visit to
Virgins today to find very little
or no signs of anything having
been done, altho three days of
the six designated had passed.
81 am sorry to find the streets
litered with papers and almost
every other form of garbage. |
especially deplore the conditions
of vacant lots back of the busl-
ness houses, on Main and Pine
streets. On these lots are to
be found sewers emptying into
the open, toilets in awful condi-
tons excepting the railroad
property which has recently
been cleaned, but yet needing
some repairs; mosquitoes breed
ing by the millions on these lots
on account of stagnated waters
which are allowed to stand,
empty tin cans, beef bones in
green state, some fifteen or
twenty empty ice cream con-
tainers containing eight to
thirty-two- ounces of decompos-
ed ice cream left open to the in
sect world and flydom.
"These conditions are not con-
Gucive to good health conditions
and are really shameful to de-
cency loving people. am sorry
TO say Aere is very little ten
dency to comply with sanitary
laws on the part of those COM
ing under the regulations of the
State Board of Health.
81 appeal to those coming
under the sanitary laws to do
their duty as required by law.
1t is not my intention to be hard
en- anyone, but I certainly ex-
pect obedience to our laws, if it
takes indictments to make 1t
impressive. :,
ut is my purpose to visit each
school in the county, examining
all school children for intestinal
parasitis, infected throats, in
fected tonsils, excessive adnoid,
erowths, gross eye and ear con-
ditions, advising parents as each
case may require, and install
first aid kits in schools.
"In this connection, | would
like to say that quite number
of people have asked me to visit
them for the purpose of admin
istering typhoid vaccine, and by
way of explanation I would like
to say that l cannot do this in
this manner, but will in the alb
sence of typhoid fever arrange
date and place where classes
can be served with vaccine with
out coast to party vaccinated.
81 hope that a better spirit
will be manifested in the future.
looking to better sanitary con-
ditions thruout the county
"Cleanliness is next to Godli-
ness" Lets be cleaner, have
more civic pride and do unto our
neighbor as we would have him
do unto us.
81 trust that the people of
Wiqgins will yet wake up before
the week is gone and show that
they are not always asleep at
the post. ao>,
~ F. H. ROBERTSON
County Health Officer