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Show DIRT AXLET8. Nine-tenths of all the filth diseases which fflict Salt Lake City are due to our dirty alleys. We defy any man whose nostrils are not toughened by long experience to pass through some of them without suffering suffer-ing nausea. There is absolutely no excuse 'for that. Were this city not naturally blessed with sunshine and pure air, which jact as disinfectants, it would be well nigh 'Impossible to live here at all. This is not an overdrawn picture, because the statistics , pconiirtn the fact in this that they show scarcely a month free from diphtheria, sear- fyet or typhoid fever, which are brought on jby just such neglect of the first principles of sanitation as confront us here today. , Secretary Bfl of the chamber of com- ixnerce has started a crusade against the filthy alleys. Iet us sustain it. Now is the 0rmr to o some effective spring cleaning, orve, w our children, will suffer from it plater on. We believe the ordinances are far reaching reach-ing enough to cover the point. The health commission should enforce them to the let-'ter let-'ter until the last vestige of filth and danger is removed from our alleys. Here is a chance for Mr. Showell to distinguish himself by extinguishing a peril and a nuisance. |