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Show Echoes of the Logan Round-up (Continued from page 2) sanitation." The disposal of sewage is most important. Surface wells are unsa fe. "The cemeteries of the State are peopled because of what men have done to the water to contaminate con-taminate it." "A well and a privy vault on the same premises not permitted or necessary. Do away-with the unsanitary privy. If there is no well, then do away with it because be-cause of the flies. A clean town mear.s clean water, clean corrals, clean homes." "If there never was a dish washed in the house it would be less harmful than a dirty corral that contaminates both earth and air." "18,000 deaths per year from diseases that are not necessary. Whooping cough kills more babies ba-bies in Utah than diphtheria and scarlet fever together. "Dont know" kills more babies than any disease. Every child with grippe should be kept out of school. Children with sore throats should be sent home from school and isolated. Somebody Some-body is careless, so diseases spread. 95 '( of the flies are hatched in the manure heaps. Dr. Frederick, Veterinary Surgeon Sur-geon at the A. C. The Utah state law requires cows to be examined once every year, to keep down tuberculosis. Every milking has thousands of tubercular germs. Pigs wiil get it if fed this milk. Cats and dogs will get it, why not the whole family? Dogs and cats, especially the latter, carry . many disease germs. If you care for your child get rid of the pet animal or sterilize it every clay before the child touches it. Miss Barrows of Columbia College. Col-lege. If we knew more about the value of food we would not have to use so much medicine. Money spent for Patent Medicines should be used for fresh vegetables. vege-tables. In this way we would get minerals without the alcohol. Mr. Merrill, DeLaVal Expert. All kinds of precautious are taken to make our kitchens, refrigerators, re-frigerators, cupboards and cellars cel-lars clean, but we get our milk from absolutely filthy surroundings. surround-ings. Epidemics, diseases of communities may nearly all be traced to the milk supply. No strainer made, no number of layers of cloth, will strain out the dirt or diseases frcm milk. There is only one way, "do not let the dirt get'into the milk." The dairy cow must have fresh air and light, and clean quarters, as clean if not cleaner than your kitchen table. Cool your milk immediately after milking. Do not keep the milk in the living room or in the bed room nor where vegetables or other odors are prevalent. People must be instructed. Demand that your cows be inspected, in-spected, and that the producers of your milk are absolutely clean. Delta ranked 41 in the State Clean Town Contest of 1915. The cleanest town ranked 90. The shame of such a record should make every man and woman clean up their own place. |