Show f i a tk GUARD THE THE PUBLIC PUBLIC HEALTH j i t a city elt of wid w Id 1 streets and antI many t natural conveniences convenience Salt Lake can canI I hns keep k p clean when she tries to 1 f I s frt being next to godliness s in Ini i tho tIO natural order of things is essential I I J to the good health of the people of the i I i community and now that spring is ap approaching apI l I preaching preparations for the removal i of such filth as has been allowed all ted to 1 accumulate during the winter months j should be made ma e Tho The health officers of ot both bot state and county are preaching the gospel ospel of or fresh tresh air all as a panacea formost for formost 1 1 most of the Ills lib afflicting the human race but unless proper propel attention is given sanitation much muck of the good i which should be derived from sleeping in the open will be lost s We vre live in a great age Xo No o Inhabit Inhabitants 1 ants aut of oC the earth eIth in in bygone ages ever had the opportunity to surround him j 1 self Helf with such comforts as rich and a 1 poor P alike aUko enjoy today toda Sometimes we 3 1 Toad read of the luxury of the ancients ancient yet r j I Solomon In all his glory glor was probably f fIc j not housed so well as the man of ot mod moderate modi Ic 4 i crate erate means in Salt Lake at the pres present r p I eat ent time Nevertheless most mO t of the theia Iiii iii progress made is of comparatively rc ro res roIl s Il i cont cent date i Tho students tu of or Columbia university t recently listened to the first or of a series i of lectures on Sanitary Science and the Public Health the speaker being Prof t William Thompson On Sedgwick of or th lI Massachusetts institute of technology Dr Sedgwick begun began by telling of th the sanitary condition of ot England in th the v 1 I thirteenth century In London a populous J 11 los lous city even een at that tha time the tho streets were made of loom loam covered with rushes r t j i ei t i t I which quite naturally harbored all kinds P it I r w IV ta i J std rid l d were 11 II removed every r i U b y yea i 1 1 I h 1 made of off i r f J i wood Q d and plaster pl and with Ith 1 1 a straw had dirt floors strewed with 1 3 H HF F rushes hes which were wept swept into the street tree I when they the had become so encumbered I r with Ith refuse rafUl as to render their th ir further t e oj presence pre nce in tho the dwellings unbearable 1 J t i fc I 1 Even Eyen in the tho sixteenth century accord accordIng f J 4 1 is f Ing to the lecturer the people of 1 lens had made very ve little tittle progress pro ress since t d i I the time of ot Julius Caesar The first firsti i t health officers were appointed during t l the reign of ot Charles II after the great greatt t 1 t j fire had put a stop to the plague which s i carried d off hundreds of thousands of DC oft t f t 1 people These officials did not remain ini in Ini i t i t office ff long and accomplished a practically tt t 1 I 8 nothing 1 t t tr Moses Io during the tl 6 of UM Ute i i r children of or Israel in the Ute s paid some Iome attention to the matter of sanita sanitation Y f Lion tion and made various arlous rules rufes which r I i s are are e duty duly set down dorn in the chronicles of J H 44 d the 1 Hebrews but little advance was 1 i i made during durin the following ages Ben Hven BenJ j J i i F Tn in the beginning of t the nineteenth eon cen ceniu 1 r t i iu tu fury y attention is called to the fact tact that rye i J children were sold sohl like slaves sIpes to the t I mills miUs end lOO worked sixteen hours a day da daj j 7 ns Sundays the good old oId days da S SI r hen hel lie lieI eu tea was Z H II poun pound in this oun t I I try iry end and whisky twenty cents a quart f I a a ata t ta i k Tt There were no health officers to prod the I executives and councilmen of municipal municipal pal governments or to raise their voices in warning the people of the risk they the were running by falling failing to keep their persons and premises premise clean Salt Lake Is not a dirty c ty far tar from it ft it and its citizens are doing well in a sanitary way from many manY points of view There is room for improvement however and an effort should be made to comply with the advice of those who sound the notes of warning and give us the benefit of scientific Investigation In other words lets clean dean up |