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Show PLENTY OF ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT Several Local Places Given Until April First to Clean Up Premises. There is still plenty of room for improvement in the local sanitary sani-tary conditions, according to Dr. C. O. Pickel, state sanitary engineer engi-neer for the state board of health, who spent this week in Washington Washing-ton county. Dr. Pickel came here at the request re-quest of the city to pass upon contemplated changes in the city water supply, with reference to the installation of troughs along the canal above the reservoir, for stock watering, as a means of keeping livestock from befouling the water. wa-ter. While in St. George he inspected inspect-ed the sanitary condition of the town, making recommendations for a general cleanup campaign. Owners Own-ers of filthy corrals and other nuisances nui-sances in the town were ordered to clean up their premises, and were given until April 1st to comply com-ply with the order. There is ample am-ple law to compel the cleaning up of nuisances and it is his opinion that the city authorities are lax in this matter. The restaurants of the town, he said, are in fair condition. For the protection of the health of the town he recommended the installation of & chlorination system sys-tem to purify the water. This, he said, should be installed at the headhouse, and being automatic in operation, would require very little attention. (Continued on page 2) ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT (Continued from page 1) Dr. Pickel is an expert on sanitation. sani-tation. On September 1st he returned re-turned from South America where he had spent 14 years on this York for the various southern republics. re-publics. On October 1st he took the position formerly held by Dr. L. H. Male, as sanitary engineer for the Utah state board of health. In 1904 Dr. Pickel was sent by the United States government to the Canal Zone where work was just starting on the Panama canal. ca-nal. His job was to make the zone safe for American workmen. At that time the natives and foreigners for-eigners were dying off at the rate of 391 per 1000, or mors than one-third of the population died every year from malaria. In their efforts to push a canal through the isthmus years before, the French lost half a million men .within a few years time from this 'disease. Dr. Pickel saw the first ;shove!ful of dirt moved when the Americans took hold of the job. :He also rode on the first boat that went through the canal on the completion of the work. As a result of the cleanup of the :zone by the Americans the death :rate there now is less par 1000 than that of New York City, and rhere has not been a case of yellow yel-low fever since 1908. Leaving the Canal Zone Dr. j "Pickel went to Ecuador and Chile, j where he was chief sanitary en- I gineer for those governments in their efforts to combat malaria. In 1925, on recommendation of the Pan-American Union he went to Argentine on a similar mission and had left Buenos Aires only nine days before the outbreak of the recent revolution which resulted re-sulted in the overthrow of the J government. |