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Show Inspection of Summer Resorts. In choosing a reeortfor summer one does not omit questions as to how far it is to church or station, whether 6 o'clock dinner is served or there are spring mattresses mat-tresses on each couch matters of ji'st interest and comfort. But add such pertinent per-tinent inquiries as these: Do you serve oatmeal or cracked wheat for breakfast? Can I have brown bread and fruit thi-eo times a day? Have you a water filter in good condition? How far is the well or the water snpply from the cesspool and drains? And laet, but not least, havo you a well ventilated earth closet? All boarding houses and summer resorts should be visited monthly by a sanitary inspector with power to enforce neces-sarv neces-sarv improvements for the health of inmates. in-mates. The Catskills and the north shore demand supervision in this way inst as much as Mulberry street, Baxter street and South Fifth avenue, those flowers of tho slums.-SMrley Dare m New York Herald: |