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Show HIGH SCHOOL MAKES REPLY Sumner Warner Dear Sir 'V.our article in Friday nights Standard has somewhat amused the physiology class, due in part to the fact that our class is accredited with considering manure one of the greatest, if not the greatest menace to public health whereas the manure itself is not a menace: it simply affords a place for the breeding of flies, a real menace to health. The class began its study of public sanitation with an Inspection of our own school yard, which we found to be in an unsightly condition, but not a menace to health In our stucK of Banltatlon we have found that where manure Is allowed to accumulate in large heaps, flies breed readily during dur-ing the summer months, but where It is scattered around as it Is on our own school lawn, the ground absorbs ab-sorbs it and It Is Impossible for files to generate under such conditions Even though our class is composed almoBl entirely of girls, we would have al te mpted to remove this manure ma-nure had it not been that It was frozen. fro-zen. We have discovered conditions where children are brought up in mud and filth, and Ihe article to which you refer does not emphasize the fact that manure Is unhealthful, but we do say that kitchen refuse, old cloth- Ing. old tin cans and various other rubbish, mixed with mud, manure and filthy water, make a very Insanitary j condition Old cans thrown around afford a good place to catch water and kitchen refuse, and here fllea may-hatch may-hatch by millions. This was the condition of the place in which theso people llvod. The children themselves were so covered with mud and filth that wo could hardly recognize a feature We desire also to say that w can open the door of our school without having to climb over a miniature mountain of every imaginable kind of refuse. Respectfully. (Signed) PHYSIOLOGY CLASS |