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Show REPORT MADE OF CLEAN TOWN Mayor Rasmussen has recently received re-ceived from the State Board of Health he report of the Clean Town contest for 1916. Unfortunately Mount Pleas, ant did not score highest of the cities of its class in the state, but a very splendid showing was made. Of the 104 cities and towns named in the report nine scored higher than Mount Pleasant, some by narrow margins. In the D class consisting of cities of 2500-1500 population Mt. Pleasant ranks fourth. Following is the basis of scoring used by the State Board of Health and the percentage- scored by this city: per cent 1. Sewage; disposal of privies, priv-ies, cesspools, etc 66 2. Stables and Corrals, disposal dis-posal of manure, etc. 66 3. Garbage, collection and disposal 70 4. Water supply 70 5. Sanitation of school houses 70 6. Sanitary marketing of foods 6 0 7. Presence of flies 70 8. Sanitation of homes, clen-liness clen-liness of homes, ventilation 6 0 9. , Condition of streets, parks and alleys 8 0 10. General appearance of homes, barns and barnyards 60 11. Lawns and Flower Gardens Gar-dens 8 o 12. Vacant lots 60 13. Fences 70 It appears from the above that the conditions of our streets, parks and alleys and the condition of our lawns and flower gardens are our strong points, and that our weakest points are in the sanitary marketing of foods, in the general condition of barns, barnyards, in the vacant lots and in the disposal of sewage. As point 1, the disposal of sewage, and point 2, the condition of stables and corrals, each score 15 of the 100 in a perfect score it would seem that this is the place to which our "attention "atten-tion might be well directed. If all the citizens would help by concentrating their efforts upon the work in which we fall lowest Mount Pleasant would, no doubt, forge well to the lead in the contest for 1917. As all cities are scored whether they, enter or not it is to be hoped that we will not be satisfied with a score below be-low the best cities of our class. |