anaheim-gazette 1909-06-10

LAWS TO PROMOTE HEALTH MEASURES ENACTED BY RECENT LEGISLATURE What the State is Doing in Fight Against Disease—Precaution Necessary to Prevent Plague—Rats Must Be Killed. The Legislature at its recent session enacted some health laws which will be of great benefit to the State if properly enforced. First among them is the one providing that "Every building, room, basement or cellar, occupied, or used as a bakery, confectionery, cannery, packing-house, slaughter-house, restaurant, hotel grocery, meat market, or other place or apartment, used for the production, preparation for sale, manufacture, packing, storage, sale or distribution of any food, shall be properly lighted, drained, plumbed, and ventilated." The floors, ceilings, furniture, receptacles, utensils, implements, and machinery must be kept clean and sanitary. Flies and dust must not be allowed to reach the food; employees must be clean and free from disease; toilet rooms must be maintained and kept clean; lavatories must have a supply of water, soap, and towels; cuspidors shall be supplied and kept disinfected, and no operator or employee shall be allowed to spit on the floor. The enforcement of the law is upon the local and state boards of health, and the State Board is authorized to publish in its Bulletin theague has been found in Cairo last summer, nor rodent in the late fall, but while ourselves on this condition not for one minute suppose danger is all passed. We no cases because we keep rats. Let up on our work and the pests will increase rapidly than tramps and discharge our police force the return of rats we more plague, for it would acle if it is all stamped State. Every city and town up a campaign against that are not only a constant health, but they destroy dollars worth of produce each year. Any city having plague will be particularly if they allow the old confiscations to return. The sanitary campaign last year did much for health besides stamping and the amount of work measured almost exactly by morbidity rates. It is necessary to do the amo that was done last year one knows how quickly a city gets dirty unless the stant watch. We think supporting a trained polite watch for those who would wealth or injure our people why should we be more maintaining a force to guide disease which would take and life. As a financial investment can afford to take chance plague. It will never spread here as in India. The enforcement of the law is upon the local and state boards of health, and the State Board is authorized to publish in its Bulletin the reports of its inspectors. Another law of great economic value, as well as sanitary, is that requiring every person, firm or company having possession of any place, building or craft infested with rats, mice, gophers or ground squirrels to proceed in good faith to exterminate them. The State and local boards of health can appoint inspectors to enforce the law, and the county supervisors and town or city governments can when necessary to prevent great loss or an epidemic, appropriate money to buy traps, poison, etc. To make this possible an existing law was amended granting power to the boards of supervisors to levy a sanitary tax of one half mill on each dollar valuation. The tremendous loss from the depredations of rats and squirrels, to say nothing of the danger from the spread of disease, makes this a most valuable law and one that should be energetically enforced. The Pure Food Law was not changed to any great extent. One amendment requires that if there is no label on a product it must not be misrepresented in any way, and that cold storage or preserved eggs or poultry must be so designated. Vinegar is considered adulterated if it is artificially colored. It was somewhat unfortunate that the laws relating to tuberculosis were all defeated excepting the one appropriating $2000 for the State Board of Health to disseminate knowledge regarding that disease. This amounts to nearly one mill for every inhabitant of the State, or one half mill a year. We can not disseminate very big chunks of knowledge on that basis, but will do our best. We should not As a financial investment can afford to take chance plague. It will never be spread here as in India, it is a different form, or immune; but because we have nature and natural history, rid of it. A single case, hurt a city that is not guarding its people. It of country-wide importance sanitariums and others do the disease if the local where it exists are available, they will not tolerate or a stupid effort to super knowledge of its existence community should be widened the possibilities of the doing, and enforce the State cently passed requiring evening or in charge of prying is infested with rats, mice or ground squirrels to pay good faith to exterminate CONSERVATION IN CA Subjects Discussed at R Monte Meet The first state meeting suance of the conference President Roosevelt to do subject of conservation of al resources of the nation of the Counties Committee California Promotion Comin Del Monte, May 8, which its theme "Conservation innia." Reports were received committees appointed at ous meeting held in Los November last, on Touris fornia by W. A. Beard, Good Roads by H. A. vhiana, chairman; Highway ting, Willis L. Jepson, chaired Pacific States, George chairman. It was somewhat unfortunate that the laws relating to tuberculosis were all defeated excepting the one appropriating $2000 for the State Board of Health to disseminate knowledge regarding that disease. This amounts to nearly one mill for every inhabitant of the State, or one half mill a year. We can not disseminate very big chunks of knowledge on that basis, but will do our best. We should not be discouraged by this want of success. To be sure, this disease is killing us off at the rate of five thousand a year; once every two hours the clods fall on the coffin of some one in this State who might have been saved from dying of tuberculosis, but we can't build armories to prepare us to kill and hospitals to save our lives at the same time. Sometime the State will awaken to the fact that our death rate from tuberculosis stands near the head of the list, and that it is far from the truth that this death rate is largely from newcomers. We shall then have laws requiring a prompt reporting of all cases and that all apartments occupied by tuberculosis patients be disinfected. We will have hospitals where those afflicted can be treated and cared for as they can not be at home. We will give everybody at least a cent's worth of information each year how to avoid the disease, and instead of one in every six dying of it, as at present, the rate will be materially lowered. It is certainly to be hoped that none of those responsible for the defeat of the bills will suffer from the disease. Plague Fortunately no case of human pla- WAS ONCE PREHISORIC SEA UNDERGROUND WATERS OF TENNESSEE AND KENTUCKY Water Resources of Region Largely Dependent Upon Rainfall — Rocks Encountered In Drilling Wells—Cost of Well Digging—Interesting Government Report [Contributed to The Gazette] The recent action of Tennessee in providing for the establishment next year of a State Geological Survey which it is expected may cooperate with the United States Geological Survey calls attention to a recent report of the Federal Survey on the under-ground waters of Tennessee and Kentucky west of Tennessee River and of an adjacent area in Illinois, by L. C. Glenn, published as Water-Supply Paper 164. The surface formations of this area were for the most part laid down in a bay of the great prehistoric sea that once existed in the Mississippi Valley, when a huge arm of the Gulf of Mexico extended well to the north of the mouth of the Ohio and when that stream and the Mississippi were separate and distinct rivers. In Tennessee this embayment area includes the portion of the State between Mississippi and Tennessee rivers, with the exception of a narrow strip along the west bank of the Tennessee. In Kentucky it includes all of the state west of Tennessee River, with the exception of a narrow strip along the west bank. In Illinois it includes a large part of Massac, Pulaski and Al- We think nothing of being a trained police force to for those who would steal our or injure our person; then would we be more niggardly in training a force to guard us from which would take our health financial investment, no city order to take chances with a It will never be as wide here as in India, not because different form, or that we are but because we know its natural history, and can get it. A single case, however, will city that is not properly safeguarding its people. It is a matter try-wide importance, and while sums and others do not mind ease if the local authorities it exists are awake and acty will not tolerate inactivity, rapid effort to suppress the edge of its existence. Every unity should be wide-awake to possibilities of the disease comel enforce the State law re-assessed requiring everybody owin in charge of property that treated with rats, mice, gophers, and squirrels to proceed in with to exterminate them. SERVATION IN CALIFORNIA Discussed at Recent Del Monte Meeting First state meeting held in purfof the conference called by Dr Roosevelt to discuss the of conservation of the naturres of the nation, was that Counties Committee of The Mia Promotion Committee, held Monte, May 8, which had forne "Conservation in Californts were received from the bees appointed at the previeting held in Los Angeles in ever last, on Tourists in Caliwy W. A. Beard, chairman; roads by H. A. vanC. Torochairman; Highway Tree Planllis L. Jepson, chairman; Unific States, George W.Pierce, that stream and the Mississippi were separate and distinct rivers. In Tennessee this embayment area includes the portion of the State between Mississippi and Tennessee rivers, with the exception of a narrow strip along the west bank of the Tennessee. In Kentucky it includes all of the state west of Tennessee River, with the exception of a narrow strip along the west bank. In Illinois it includes a large part of Massac, Pulaski and Alexander counties. The water resources of this region are very largely dependent on its rainfall. The springs and shallow wells derive their supplies exclusively from the rain falling in the immediate vicinity, and the strata from which the deep wells obtain water, though in many places not reached by the immediate local rainfall, are supplied by rains that fall within the region or in the area just west of the Mississippi where the Gulf embayment deposits are also found. The rocks of the region described in the report consists of sands, clays and gravels that range in age from Cretaceous to Recent, though the record is not one of continuous sedimentation. These deposits are for the most part unconsolidated. Here and there the sands may be locally cemented in part into an ironstone or ferruginous sandstone, and in drilling a well one or more layers of such indurated sandstone are usually found somewhere in the section. These layers are as a rule from a few inches to a foot thick, rarely as much as 2 feet. They are generally found at the bottom of a stratum of sand resting immediately on a bed of clay, being merely the lower portion of the bed of sand, once loose, but now cemented into a firm rock by iron oxide carried there in solution and prevented from descending farther by the underlying impervious clay. The thin layers are not thick enough or hard enough to offer any serious obstacle to the driller using tools primarily fitted for work in soft sand and clay. In numerous places, especially on the east side of the region, gravels lying on or near the surface have been cemented by iron into a firm Conservation in California trees were received from the reees appointed at the previeting held in Los Angeles in er last, on Tourists in Calily W. A. Beard, chairman; roads by H. A. vanC. Torochairman; Highway Tree Planllis L. Jepson, chairman; Unific States, George W.Pierce, n. The fifty-eight counties of a were represented. Address delivered as follows: aptus Growing in California, cornell, of Los Angeles county, tating the Forestry Society of a; California's River Problem miller of Sacramento county, y of the Sacramento Valley ment Association; Forest Tree in California, G. B. Lull, forester; Economic Value of ug the Rivers and Harbors, Fox of Washington, D. C.; Director of the National Riharbors Congress; Conserva the Waters, W. J. McGee of ton, D. C. Secretary of the Waterways Commission; Reof Our Forests, F. E. Olmnited States District Forconservation of California's W. W. Mackie, Soil Expert Department of Agriculture; ional Conservation CommissGeorge C. Pardee, of Alamey, member of the Commiss- ions were adopted endorsing of the National Rivers and Congress, the United States Bureau, and following the made in various papers. oxide carried there in solution and prevented from descending farther by the underlying impervious clay. The thin layers are not thick enough or hard enough to offer any serious ob-stacle to the driller using tools primarily fitted for work in soft sand and clay. In numerous places, especially on the east side of the region, gravels lying on or near the surface have been cemented by iron into a firm ironstone conglomerate. Ledges of this rock may be several feet thick, as it lies at or near the surface in the higher parts of the region much of it has been undermined by erosion and either broken into loose blocks or removed entirely, so that it does not form a continuous stratum and rarely offers serious interference to well drilling. The report includes a general discussion of the geology, of the region, so far as it relates to the water resources, and also a particular treatment of the resources and the cost of well digging and drilling in the individual counties. A copy of the paper can be had free on application to the Director of the United States Geological Survey, Washington, D.C. Notice, Los Angeles Examiner Papers can be had daily and Sunday at Weber's music store, Center St., Kimball's stationery store, next to postoffice, and Reynold's poolroom, Center street. Orders by the month taken at Kimball's next to post office. Subscribers not getting paper promptly please notify Mrs. M. R. 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