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Show CLEANUP CAMPAIGN VIEWED AS MOST SUCCESSFUL City Sanitary Inapeotor George Shorten, completed tho compilation of statistics in connection with the 1916 cleanup campaign today and will bud-mit bud-mit his report to tho city board of health tomorrow. The campaign woe- in progreflB from April 3 to 14, inohifllve, and in that space of time virtually every yard, street, alloy and-vacant lot in the oity was cleaned and the rubbish carted away to the municipal dumping grounds. The hauling was done at the ex-ponBe ex-ponBe of the city, under the direction of Street Supervisor Olem Martin, to whom Sanitary Inspector Shorten accords ac-cords muoh praise for the systematic and exoellent manner in which the work was done. Nearly 20 teams and wagons were used in removing tho rofuse to the dumps, more than 700 loads being handled in the 11 days. The cost of the campaign to the city was approximately $700, but this, the inspector believes, is small in comparison com-parison with tho results that should obtain with regard to tho improvement improve-ment of health conditions In the city. In addition to the general cleaning up of the residence district, a number num-ber of sloughB and hollows near the outskirts of the city, were filled up, thus rendering them obsolete as fly-breedlng fly-breedlng places. no |