Show I 1 ON OM at the regular sacrament services in tho the tabernacle last sunday afternoon dr T B beatty secretary of the state board of health gave a comprehensive talk on sanitation paying particular attention to the house fly and his accomplishments dr beatty assorted that it Is gods goda plan that everybody shall die of old age the natural manner in which to shuffle ot off this mortal coll coil and in that respect utah lias has the highest death rate as more of her citizens pass away from general debility than do the citizens of other states while this is a matter ot of pride the death rate from typhoid fever la a glaring disgrace according to lr dr beatty who stated that typhoid is a disease that is contracted thru contamination tami nation by one who is afflicted or thru tho the agency of the house fly which carries the disease on its body after accumulating the germs from escare tia of one who he haa had the disease the doctor stated that he firmly be lived the time would come when a death from typhoid fever would be regarded as manslaughter because of the easy means provided with which to prevent it cleanliness is a foe to typhoid fever and filth is its best beat friend the doctor stated by way of comparison that when the french went down to panama to construct the canal out of every thousand died from malaria because of the unsanitary conditions when the united states took up the work the same unsanitary conditions prevailed so 80 the farsi first thing dono done was to clean up and so thoroughly was the work prosecuted that from per 1000 the death rate was reduced to 8 per thousand which is a very fair average in fact a low average there are no natural conditions within the state of utah which threat en ea life according to the speaker but wherever they exist they are man made it if it were not tor for filth flies could not exist and in speaking of this pest peat dr beatty said he referred to the common house fly which is the real villain flies found up in the mountains and out on the desert are not filth bearers like the common house fly it if all the fly by hatcheries which the doctor termed all garbage cans open cess pools manure piles and refuse heaps were removed and premises generally were kept clean two thirds of uie the preventable diseases would be removed stable manure should be hauled away every ten days as that is the length of time required to hatch out a batch of eggs and manure Is the favorite breeding place of the pests the speaker cited several cases where numerous deaths had occurred because of infected milk which had been distributed from a dairy where one case of typhoid fever was improperly handled everything about a typhoid patient should be thoroughly dis infected or else flies will carry the germs and infect others dr beattys talk was prefaced by a few remarks from sanitary inspector peter knudson who made a plea tor for cooperation in the clean town contest and mayor davis supplemented what had been said by an earnest talk on making brigham city the cleanest town in the state president stohl presided over the services and the musical numbers were the hymns let zion la in her beauty rise ye children of our god and our mountain home sacrament was waa administered by the bishopric of the second ward during the passing of which elder J W peters read from the tha bible and miss bliss crystal jeppson gave an organ number tle tie prayers were offered by bishop P C johnson of mantua and victor B E madbea |