| Show CLE cleanliness 13 IS NEXT TO GODLINESS tile the above two cardinal virtues do not always exist side by sido side but they should because the one Is the logical sequence of the other the man mail who v ho possesses and practices both qualities ha has chosen the right road to approach the divine cleanliness today is on oil the increase in the human family and will continue to do so thanks to the teachings of medical science that except maintained death and destruction will surely follow in consequence rather than to die and let the other fellow do tile the same the state has wisely adopted the plan that all communities muni ties whether clean or unclean must set apart a certain time to clean up and keep clean the state however has not been sufficiently emphatic in III it its demands upon communities but it no doubt in due time will make it a state law niall heavy flues fine and imprisonment to any man inan who fails after a proper notice to that effect by local health boards to clean up their premises and keep them clean at least during tile the lot hot season there are those in our town who year after year neglect their ards and outhouses out houses in spite of protests protest of neighbors cleoo iq rather than clean up to pes pester er their neigh bois bots and passersby passerby passers passer by with the vile fumes which enia emanate nate from stinking codala rind and outhouse ineis gnei are arc a nu cance to well comin commini ties and should be made to suffer not only the extreme penalty but a lasting reproach and scorn and curse of the entire community as well Is it possible that god really could love such never could man mail never to make them reform by an appeal to their civic pride ariae would be useless because they possess none so the only alternative with creatures of this kind is to make them come to time it is the intention of the local board of health to warn such in time that their wrath is ready to tall fall upon their head lica heavily vily except hereafter they observe the word of wisdom to bo be clean so far the state board of health has confined its efforts to appeal to the good sense of the people on all sanitary matters but eventually demands will bs be made upon communities to beware of violations and the time is not far distant when far greater latitude will be accorded tile the state board in sanitary matters than it possesses at present no man mail as yet is able to forsee what dire connections thero there might be between lack of cleanliness in 1920 and the return of tho fit lu clia epidemic in 19 1921 2 1 it if tho the disease and its method of propagation were definitely known to medical science it would IQ be treated ly by tile the state B board ard on tho same principal as an I 1 epidemic of 0 smallpox or diphtheria or any other acute contagious or infectious rec bious diseases where of all houses were made compulsory after tho the disease had left it now the flu fill apparently has visited f ully fully 50 per cent of oc tile the entire nation and yet state or federal health boards havo have not eve oven n intimated the necessity or 0 of 0 homes on a largo scale it would however al appeal to tho the good sense of 0 most people that in spite of oc tho failure of 0 medical science so far to discover its germ erm origin that this measure would ho it in line with modern medical thought name namely ly that every home whore where the disease had entered would could bo be far safer if ic every nook and corner were thoroughly fumigated and eat bat I 1 irater with some borne safe antiseptic dis infecting solution and that the state provide for this prophylactic measure free of all expense to the people on tho the theory that influenza is produced by a babillis ba cillis rather than by some mysterious atmospheric infection it would ordinarily be consid aled an all absolutely imperative measure and still for all that wo we hear but little about from house to house as a probable state ordinance there are two things which we linow know definitely from experience namely first that influenza is a filth disease originally and that in this respect it resembles all other infectious diseases and that in it all probability the world war brought it about invariably history repeats itself where epidemics are arc invariably found to follow in the wake ot of wars with its wants misery and filth and that results are in direct ratio to the magnitude of havocs which war brings about take it as a whole prophylactic through proper sanitary endeavors is the coming which will be proclaimed far and wide sanitation is rapidly marching to tho the front ranks of all issues and promises in III the immediate future to outshine all others in it importance and become a national issue on the principle that the health of the people peoble is the only i wealth worthy to strive for in III the second place it is apparently a cold weather disease this Is questionable in the mind of the writer extreme cold like extreme heat cicat are inimical to germ production but the fact that winter would lead to indoor life and this again to exclusion of fresh air oxygen oy een would protect any disease germ the imos died by the hundreds in their snow huts and were virtually exterminated primarily because of crowding and exclusion of oxygen thus reviewing commentary would not be complete without again referring to our spring cleanup clean up elsinore should constitute itself a t committee of one to pull together to make the town ideal in this respect to strive tor for tile the lionor honor of being the cleanest and most sanitary town in tile the state to notify sl ackers promptly and to insist upon a strict compliance to the ordinance of cleaning up and keep clean it is thus only that we ne fulfill tile the divine command to be like god in all things |
