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shovel by the county and of a
dumping area by the city, for
the purpose of establishing a
continuous fill" system, seemed
assured during the past weeks as
city, county and health depart
ment officials got together to
plan cooperative action in the
face of Pascagoula's and Jack
son county's growing santa
ton problem.
A comprehensive survey and
list of recommendations was al
so delivered last Friday at a
city council meeting by DIR. Ar
thur Hedmeg head of the coun-
ty health department. DR.. Heg-
meg recommended a number of
major projects, including more
rigid enforcement of license re-
quirements for restaurants; more
rigid enforcement of milk laws
and meat handling requirements;
passage of an ordinance prohib-
ting the keeping of cattle, horses
and swine in the city area; a full
scale privy-building program
throughout the outlying area as
a means of combating hook-worm
infestation; follow-up rat con-
troll program to assure the eff
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paign; and a city-sponsored pro-
ject to clean specified bitches and
bayous within its jurisdiction.
DR.. Hedmeg's report also re-
commended, that the proper Fed
eral authority undertake to
clean up serious sanitation prob
lens within the FPHA jurisdic-
ton in the housing project as a
part of the joint program. Spe-
officially recommended were pro-
jects to correst inadequacies in
the Eastlawn sewage system and
a thorough cleanup of the Mar
ket street canal, including the
laying of cement inverts and the.
sodding of the banks to prevent
erosion.
Continuous Fill
Realizing that the provision of
a more efficient method of trash
and garbage disposal was funda-
mental to solving the entire san
itatioh problem, city and county
officials got together during the
week to work out means for in
shutting the continuous sill'
system.
This provides for the digging
of a deep trench in an out-of-
the-way area, in which garbage
will be dumped and covered with
earth, and new trenching con-
tinuously dug as the old one fills
up. This is the system that is
used by the army engineers in
handling sanitation and disposal
problems of the big training
camps.
The county agreed to begin eff
forts to purchase a power shovel
of sufficient capacity to do the
work, and are seeking to ac-
quire one now through military
surplus disposal channels. The
city, as its part of the arrange
ment, will purchase several acres
of wasteland in the OUTLYING dis
tricts to provide a dump area.
This will provide a central
outlet for the various aecumu-
lations of trash and fill as we'll
for city garbage disposal. and
should remove the underlying
cause of the disgraceful trash
heaps growing up along many
of the roads in the outskirts of
town. Along with the institu-
ton of the continuous fill sys-
tenn, the city also intends to en-
force rigidly the ordinance
against dumping in open areas.
Cooperation Needed
DR.. Hegmeg's report stressed
the fact that any sanitation pro-
gram to be effective depends on
cooperation of all governmental
departments concerned with its
enforcement.
We have, in the past month"
the survey stated, obtained an
appropriation from the city to
pay the salary Of an additional
sanitation supervisor. whose du-
ties will be to make, first, an
intensive follow-up of the rat
control campaign -"
Secondly. the duties of the
new sanitation supervisor will
De devoted to the investigation
of all municipal food-handling
establishments in Pascagoula, as
well as the follow-up of all nui
sance complaints which will be
submitted to the health depart
ment
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