NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Sewage Disposal in Manchester to be Discussed at a Meeting to be Held 
Later This Summer. 
A meeting is to be held in Man- 
‘chester later in the summer at some 
time and place to be announced 
later, looking toward the adoption 
of some method of disposing of 
‘Manchester’s sewage. In view of the 
agitation that is being made it may 
be of interest to many of our read- 
ers to refer at this time to a paper 
by L. L. Lumsden, past assistant 
surgeon, U.S. public health and ma- 
rine hospital service, on what town 
and city authorities can do in the 
prevention of» typhoid fever. The 
paper was printed in the monthly 
bulletin for May of the Mass. State 
Board of Health. Ruskin is quoted 
as saying that: 
““Any interference which tends to 
reform and protect the health of the 
masses is viewed by them as unwar- 
ranted interference with their vested 
rights to inevitable disease and 
death.’”’ 
The paper goes on to say that edu- 
cation of the people, taken in a 
broad sense, is, therefore, essential 
to advancement in sanitation, or dis- 
ease prevention, as in other meas- 
ures for the uplift of our nation. 
“Thus in proper sewage disposal - 
we have a measure which is of re- 
markably bread application in the 
prevention of disease. As a simple 
prescription, with ‘‘shotgun’’ effects, 
it can be most highly recommended 
for the ills of the community. 
“With the facts which the ac- 
cumulated knowledge of ages lays 
before us, can any one doubt the 
wisdom of a municipality when it 
spends sufficient money to secure a 
proper disposal of its own sewage 
and to prevent, to a reasonable de- 
_ gree, the spread of infection, coming 
_ through various media from the sew- 
|age of other communities? The 
value of the health and happiness 
| preserved to the people by the use 
| of this simple sanitary device can 
“not be measured on a monetary 
_ basis. 
““Typhoid fever has been defined 
| as a ‘disease of civilization’ but as 
| Sedgwick well says: ‘It ought to be 
_¢learly understood that it is only a 
| disease of defective civilization, for 
it has gradually become notorious 
| that the widespread of frequent oc- 
| currence of typhoid fever in any 
| community must be due somehow to 
| defective sanitation, and defective 
| Sanitation means defective civiliza- 
| tion.’ 
| “‘The rate of prevalence of ty- 
| phoid fever in the United States in 
|} Comparison with the rates in other 
countries is high. Thus the annual 
typhoid death rate per 100,000 popu- 
lation for the period of 1901-05 was 
in Scotland, 6.2; in Germany, 7.6; 
in England and Wales, 11.2; in Bel- 
gium, 16.8; in Austria (1901-04), 
19.9; in Hungary, 28.3; in Italy, 
35.2; while the rate in the United 
States during the same period was 
about 46 (estimated). 
‘““Do not these figures plead elo- 
quently that in the development and 
exploitation of the wonderful natu- 
ral resources of our country it is 
high time that serious consideration 
be given to measures for the con- 
servation of that most important of 
all our resources, the nation’s 
health? 
‘‘Careful epidemiologic studies 
have shown that in some communi- 
ties there may be a high typhoid 
death rate due largely or even en- 
tirely to factors other than water in 
the spread of the infection, and 
sanitarians now regard the typhoid 
death rate of a community as a fair 
measure of the intelligence exer- 
cised by that community in respect 
to sanitation in general. 
‘Officials who would advance the 
best interests of the municipality 
should know that one of the most 
important and vital of all these in- 
45 
HOUSE CLEANING MADE EASY. 
House cleaning is robbed of half 
its terrors by the use of the Santo 
Vacuum Electric Cleaner. No more 
taking up earpets. Attaches to any 
electric light fixture and so easy of 
operation a child can use it. All 
draperies as well as carpets can be 
cleaned. I rent the machine for $2 
a day and the cost of operation is 
trifling. Try it once and you will 
never regret it. A postal or tele- 
phone eall will bring it to your door. 
G. A. KNOERR, Electrician, 
Central Square, Manchester. 
terests is the conservation of the 
health of the people. 
‘“‘Of the conditions affecting the 
welfare of the whole people of a com- 
munity, a good sewerage system and 
a good water supply are certainly 
among the most -vitally important. 
If the treasury funds are insufficient 
to provide these, the town authori- 
ties should keep the facts clearly and 
persistently before the people. By 
so doing, the people eventually may 
be made to understand and become 
not only willing but anxious to sup- 
ply the necessary funds.’’ 
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Culbert’s Harness shops at Beverly 
Farms and Manchester. . 
MASE aes 
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Fine Homemade Candies, Pure, 
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Frozen Pudding a specialty 
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Tele- 
phones 
Ice Cream Parlor connected 
The Anchorage 
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141 AND 143 MAIN STREET, GLOUCESTER. 
Beef, Pork, Mutton, Ham, Poultry and Fine Groceries. 
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We roast our own coffees daily. 
