The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-04-27
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HEALTH BULLETIN /
CITY OF ELY
by OWEN w. PARKER. MD.
Bealth Commissioner
tIO HEALTH OFFICERS OF MIN
NESOTA. CLEANUP WEEKS
APRIL 23-MAY S.

| 4 II + TOURIST SEASON Is
ilABOUT TO OPEN. 1T is TINE
TO CLEAN UP.
STRANGERS. JUDGE US BY
THE APPEARANCE OF OUR
GET READY TO SHOW THE
BEAUTIES AND ADVANTAGES
OF MINNESOTA.
LET'S GO and clean up all rub
bish, garbage, ashes and tin cans,
repair fences and walks, screen
priyies, barns and milk !. houses as
we'll as homes. drain swampy places
near houses. fill in mudholes, cover
cisterns, screen rain barrels where
mosquitoes may breed.
WHEREVER SEWER CONNEC-
TION is POSSIBLE ABOLISH
THE PRIVY.
! The state law requires that:
|, GAIL human excreta in cities and
! villages shall be deposited in sewers,
| cesspools and vaults. The cesspools
| and vaults must be made hy-proof."
"All cesspools and vaults must
| be cleaned out at least once a year,
and at such other times as may be
considered necessary by the local
health officer"
"No abandoned we'll or deep
well shall be used as receptacle
for sewage or household waste, X.
Empty privy vaults and disinfect
with freshly slaked lime. Scrub,
| paint screen and repair privies or
4 build. new. = Don't forget f1ytraps
| for grocery stores, restaurants, meat
tshops and other places where food
attracts flies. Include anti-rat meas
ures in the cleanup campaign. Rats
carry disease, cause great loss, often
are responsible for fires.
| The location, drainage, water
supply, toilet facilities, garbage dis
posal and general sanitation Of
| tourist camps is of great import
ance. Such arrangements should be
given = special consideration now
when the annual spring cleanup is
| on.
If there is creamery in your
sanitary district remember the law
requires that:
| Creamery waste or washings
must not be discharged upon the
| surface of the ground or upon low
places where it will remain during
| the process of decomposition, or
into slough, pond, lake or other
body of stagnant or standing wat
er."
i TEACHERS-PARENTS DON'T
NEGLECT SCHOOL GROUNDS
AND FAIRGROUNDS.
While at it see that Section $3.50
prohibiting the use of common
drinking cups in public places and
Regulation 81 forbidding the use of
roller towels in public places are
TYPHOID, DYsENTERY AND
! SUMMER DIARRHEA of INFANTS
will be prevented if this sanitary
cleanup is well done. More COM
fort and pleasure to the towns
people as well as increased income
through tourist travel will follow.
MEAT, orderly and SANITARY tour
/ list camps, we'll kept yards and clean
streets make a good impression on
visitors.
GET QUICK ACTION By. OR
GANIZATION.
The American Legion is for the
cleanup campaign. Its members
will assist in forming sanitary
squads from adults and school hoys
and girls. Each squad should be
assigned to certain district with
explicit Instructions about the clean
up work. The newspapers will CO.
operate and all civic organizations
will back up the health officer IN
| carrying out the provisions OF the
| state law. ASK THEIR AID.
i STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
REGULATIONS REQUIRE THAT:
'The health officer of each city
and village in the state of Mime
sofa shall make thorough sanitary
Inspection of his municipality in the
month of May, and present a writ
ten report of such inspection, to-
pether with his recommendations, to
the council on or before the first
day of June of the year in which
the inspection is made. The health
officer shall send copy of this re-
port to the Minnesota State Board
of Health before July LIST of the
same year. Other sanitary inspec-
ton shall be made during each year
if deemed necessary.
preceding the regular May SAM
tary inspection, the health officer
of each city and village shall pub
lish in a local paper, or by mean:
of bills posted in two or more con
spicuous places, an order for the
citizens to thoroughly clean al
wards, vaults and cesspools, also al
sheds ,pr barns containing manure
on or before given date. If upoI
| inspection this general order il
| found not to have been carried out
then like individual notices shall b.
served"
Health Officers please consul