Show I CLEAN UP THE YARDS NOW IS TH TIME TO DISPOSE OF GARBAGE I A Talk With Health Commissioner Dalby Some Suggestions For the People I Now that the first days of spring I are upon us the health officer suggests that all garbage thrown out during the winter months be cleaned j up ere fermentation sets in and disease dis-ease results No one can appreciate the good a I general cleaning up will do before the sun has had a chance to work on the I small garbage heaps in the backyards back-yards said Dr Dalby yesterday Every family in the city can employ itself well and advantageously by going go-ing to work and cleaning up all refuse right now ere the rains fall and the heat of the sun induces fermentation which breeds disease One notices the ill smelling odors which arise from the i smelng heaps of ashes which have been I thrown out during the winter and I upon which slops have been dumped indiscriminately There is where the fever germs come from and if we want to save the little ones health now is the time to begin Some good disinfectant disin-fectant should be employed around closets which are not connected with the sewers and should be used until the odors disappear Disease comes I with these foul smelling heaps When nature endowed mankind with a nose she protected him against disease The I nose conveys to the mind the intel gence that danger is near and the best I way to escape i is to abolish the I cause I am going to have the cleaning clean-ing up enforced this spring and see if we cannot have less typhus and other contagious ailments than usual I MI i A I I people only realized their danger I every man in the city would have a rake and a shovel and be at work tomorrow I to-morrow morning Butthey do not and let matters go until sickness makes its appearance Then they call in thGdoc tor and Wonder where their family contracted the disease because theie j is none within catching distance It is right at the door and they do not seem to realize i I The best way to dispose of garbage I is to have it hauled away hut if that cannot be done then bury i I do not j I mean the S lf that the ordinance forbids for-bids being disposed of in this manner j but the common stuff which will a cumulate cu-mulate around a yard ip i small quantities quanti-ties I is about ag dangerous to health as any in fact more so because J is not noticed and should be buried I deep in the ground here it will become be-come deodorized and harmless The earth is a great medical agent I you do not give the soil more than it can I take care of i will transform it to its original element in a short time Of I cours a large l deposit u ill lie for years and garbage should never be disposed of in that manner I there is any great quantity i should be hauled away and not disposed of in the vicinity vicin-ity of dwellings Cleanliness is not only next to Godliness God-liness but is absolutely essential to health People have been disposed to claim that providence was responsible for the death of loved ones especially little children when a a matter of fact they were intended to grow and become men and women and were only taken away because of the criminal neglect of their parents Since my appointment as health commissioner I have tried to make people understand that I was working in their interests and not my own I pays me and every other physician to have plenty of sickness but the doctor who would not advise people to bc healthy and point out the way should not he countenanced in a decent community I com-munity People should take care of i themselves They should prevent disease dis-ease Doctors were intended in the first I instance to prolong the life of the aged l 1 and make their stay on earth ajj I a1 pleasant and as long a possible Nature Na-ture never intended that a child should I 1 need medical attendance The young I of none save humanity require it and very seldom do any of them die except by accident Coa I |