Milford chronicle., 1925-07-31
GUARD WATER AND SEWAGE
in FIGHT AGAINST TYPHOID
Service Stations Along Highways That Comply With Health Regu.
tOns Being Recommended To Motorists Fight Against Dis
ease In Delaware Becoming Effective, Records Show.

from typhoid fever this summer thal
might be contracted by contaminated
water and other poor health ano
sanitary details is under way. Dl-
rected by the officials OF the StaIe
Board of Health, various menaces
that might, in years past, have been
allowed to pass unnOted are being
carefully watched this summer. The
movement to improve the sanitary
conditions in the state including wa
ter as well as sewage disposal mas
been going forward for more than a
year but the results are just coming
to public notice.
One of the ways in which action
has been taken by the State Health
BOARD is by examining and seeing
that water and sewage at gasoline
stations and so-called comfort sta
tiOns along the State highways are
fit for service and have no hazards
attached to them that might result
in serious ills.
Under the personal supervision OF
r. o. Beckett, state sanitary engl-
neer, the water supplies OF prom-
ninet stations have been inquired IN
to and an analysis of the water made
and this examination will be cOntin-
ned at frequent intervals to see that
the water is fit for human consump-
tion. The disposal of the sewage is
another detail that has been care
fuIlv attended to and wherever the
stations have proven their willing
ness to cooperate with the State
Board of Health and have done what
the sanitary code of the state calls |
for. this fact has been recognized |
and signs given to the State High
way Department to erect along the |
highways, which work is being done |
through the courtesy of c. D. Buck,
chief engineer of the State Highway
Commission.
These signs are attracting consid-
cradle attention-flrst because of
their unusual design-triangular-
and second because of the assurance
they give motorists who may stop
without apprehension as to the wa
ter and accommodations they will
get at these stations. The signs are
placed 500 feet from the stations in
both directions.
Is Sections Covered
So far there have been fifteen Of
these signs erected at the following
stations along the two main arteries
of trave Through the state:
Charles KelVington, miles below
Wilmington; J. A. Grassland, 10
miles south of Wilmington; Ennis
garage at st. Georges; Pine Tree
station, near Townsend; Goldsbor-
ough, near Smyrna; Silver Lake sta
ton, Dover; Green Gables, Dover;
William Chambers station at Viola;
FELTON, service station at FELTON,;
Peoples station at Harrington; Bow
den's station at Seaford; Haven
Lake station at Milford; Blue Hen
garage at Glendale; George Blake
ley's station at Georgetown; Els
mere station at Elsmere.
At a recent meeting of the State
Board of Health certain regulations
were approved governing tourists
Camps and service stations catering
to the public in regard to the water
the regulations provide:
each tourist camp or filling sta
ton shall be provided with an ade-
quate supply of water of good sani-
tary quality from a source which :
will meet the requirements of the
Delaware State Board of Health as :
to sanitary location, construction,
and operation. Water supply may !
be used from a municipal system
provided such a system has been in
stalled and is operated in such a
manner as to meet with the require
ments of this Board. If a supply S
from an approved municipal source i
is not available, a supply shall be t
obtained from a well or spring or T
other source which must be located, S
and operated in accord t
ance with the requirements of this a
Board for a safe water supply" O
The common drinking cup is pro- f
libited at these stations, Detailed p
for the disposal of sewage e
and refuse are provided and in or tt
Ter that there may be no misunder- n
standing, the inspection of these o
)laces is arranged for under the d
provision: q
inspection of tourists camps b
hall be made by agents Of the State fC
3oard of Health as often as practi- p
able and report of the findings with
made to those in di
harge. If the recommendations are ty
lot carried out and the camp is W
ound in an unsanitary condition up al
N a second inspection, the camp or Il
illing station will be declared a fa
Iuisance to public health and in the Il
me case the camp shall be ordered 81
.losed and not re-opened until such n
ime until recommendations have fs
,een carried out and in the case of II
garages and filling stations the sani-
ary facilities available to the pub II
ic shall be closed until the neces- al
,ary changes have been made to el
ender it sanitary" u
Value of ImmunizatiOn w
In speaking of these regulations Of
Dr.. Arthur T. Davis, executive sec Oh
'etary of the State Board of Health v
referred to two families in lower al
Delaware where cases of typhoid "
ever occurred this summer. At one S;
lome two children we're stricken. ii
Fen days later the father and an VI
,ther child were attacked and two ii
weeks later two other children were ty
aiken i'll, making six cases of ty-
1hoid fever in the one home. The tt
state Board of Health at once made fl
IN investigation and found that e
here had never been any sewage tt
disposal about this home and as the h