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Show COMPULSOIHW UNf, It Is reported that our city council recently passed an ordinance requiring all business houses bordering on tho sower to make connection within 90 days. This requirement I consider a most healthy ono nnd such ob will redound re-dound to the city's credit. Money spent in protecting tho health ot the poo-plo poo-plo is one of the best Investments a man or community can make. Now that so much monoy has been spent In tho building of tho sewer it should be utilized and the residence required to mnko connection othcrwlso the out lay will bring no returns. Hut It is a fact generally known, that outside ot the, sower district conditions con-ditions nro such that the health of tho people in thoso localities are equally In danger. Go where you may, you will find outhouses non-protectod and left In that unsanitary condition, that flics carry disease breathing germs from those places to tho homes and tho tables of neighbors who may bo Infcctod In conscqucnco ot these visiting scavengers. From a sanitary point of view, tho privy l's a public nulsanco In that It Influences an unhealthy un-healthy atmosphere, and if not properly pro-perly protected Is a breeder of disease. dis-ease. Would it not bo a wise thing . to have an ordlnanco requiring tho Inspection In-spection ot all such out-housos with nuthorlty to demand cither their removal re-moval cr their being placed In a more cleanly condition. The city might well nfford to havo nn Inspector for n short time every season to attend to this business. The "chain gang," or in othor words those who are bolng fed at tho county coun-ty Jail by tho city, might be utilized for tho purposo of keeping these places clean. If tho removal of gnr- bage and all ashes Is recognized as a function of a city in all better organized organ-ized communities, why should It not bo considered more necessary that tbeso out-hoUBCs bo taken care of and be so required by ordinance. Now that the question ot sanitary drinking cups, clean front nnd back: yards, tho removal of manure from barn yards, etc., aro matters In wklek BflJ the city is Interesting Itself, shoaM flflj not the city also take a hand In the flflj out-house question that the cltliems M might be protected against the iW- pure odors and the disease breathlag flics. FRESH AIR. BJ |