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Less Danger in Augusta in the
Summer Than in Many Un
protected Summer Resorts
Written By Dr. Emory R. Park.
Tin tin l ,' ft r the general exodus b
the mountains. In til e sihishure, and
lo iviiiu-Hii ‘ sliririgs' is lu re. Kvory
wan sees an-j net ease in the number ol
people who a ll away for a few days,
or maybe for tin entire summer, l-'nr
be it from us In say anything to dis
courage Ibis custom. We believe in
il, and feel sure that the rest and
change of scene is really beneficial
and has a tendnicy to build up the
body and make it capable in many in
stances of resisting tile onset of dis
ease; tint we do wish o call tin- pub
lic’s attention to the fact that main
so-calhw "health resorts" are not
health resorts at all, but are little bet
ter than death traps. Wnere-witb-all
is a person benefit ted who lives in a
clean home where ihe food is pule'
ed by screens, where tile premises are
provided with wirier works for ear
rying away the waste material, and
where intelligent care of ihe well ha
insured a pure water supply, and go
ing for a sojourn to some place vvher •
files are permitted to go from open
toilets to the hoarders' food, and where
slop is allowed to accumulate it' open
buckets or barrels, or is emptied
around the kitchen, and where the
drinking water, instead of being Pol -
and clean, is obtained from a well or
spring located in such relation to col
lections of filtli that the water Inevi
tably becomes contaminated? We re
peat, w here-with-all doth such a
change benefit one?
Many people have the idea that
spring water is always pure. Ii would
lie nearer the truth to say that it is
nearly always impure. Springs, even
mountain springs, are always located
in relatively low places. of course,
they may come bubbling out of the
ground several thousand feet above
the sea, level, but even in such cases
there is always ground immediately
adjacent to them which is at a higher
level than they are. Therefore, rains
falling above them wash all filth which
may have been deposited on the water
shed down into the spring, and con
taminate its waters.
Just a low days ago the state board
of health sent one of its physicians,
on professional matters, to a town of
about 300 people, located right up in
the mountains of north Georgia. Much
to his surprise lie found in this out
of-the-way place an absolutely beau
tiful hotel. The rates were high, but
the service given seemed worth the
price. The meals were good, the
windows were screened, the house was
provided with electric lights and wa
ter works. Out in the yard were a
couple of fountains. Slid on the hotel
reservation was a large, artificial lake
with big white swans swimming
around it. ,?o far, so good. The phy
THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN-AND MOST POPULAR
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Augusta Coca Cola Bottling Works
J. E. REED. President J. M. RAINWATER. Secty. and Treas.
si«*ian, .seized with that wonder whir),
ovi itahe.s one when one discovers a
laii>-like fdaee which one had neve:
heard of before, asked what was tin
origin of tie son-s which pushed tie*
water up through the mountains. H 1
receive-: tin* iepy that it was done
l»v gravity, 1 at tl • :e were two springs
upon the mountains behind tile hotj,
and that one «d th< s< suj plied the
water woiks. the other furnished tie
drinking water. 'File inquisitive MIL
then wanted to see the source of the
drinking water, and the prop i tor.
heiiig an obliging man and rejoicing
in tin delusion that no fault could be
found wfii these mountain springs,
very kindly escorted the aforesaid
•‘sawbones” up tlm mountainside to
llm piaee where the elixir of life welled
up ' rom somewhere in the interior of
tin* mountain. Quite a beautiful place
it was —violets dogwood, tall pines,
large boulders,, all were there Not
a house or barn in sight. The only
evidence of a human being ever hav
ing been up there before was a rickety
wall around the spring and a small
pipe line which led from the spitng
down the mountain to tin hotel. “We
think this is mighty fine.” the pro
prietor said. “It could-be, hut it isn't,
said “sawbones:” “those rows yonder
which are allowed to roam on the
slopes may leave deposits on the wa
ter-shed which will be waslud into the
spring when the first rain falls.”
“Bight you are.” said tin* proprietor
”w< will attend to that and see that
il is corrected.” Hut will he?, We
believe h will, but we have in* wav
to compel him to, or to find out wheth
er he does or not. The state hoard
has no funds to send a man around to
inspect such places, and \v> have in'
such institutions no this state as count
t\ boards of health and county health
ollieers to attend to such matters.
The condition just mentioned is mild
compared to some that exist not on!>
a* so-called “health resorts,” but right
in the heart of our best towns an 1
cities. The state’s greatest need is for
health laws which can be enforced
and health organizations with the
knowledge which fits them to deter
mine what constitutes a menace to
public health, and with the financial
backing and the courage to see that
such menaces are eradicated. Tin*
passage of the Ellis public health bill
backed up by the prop r amount <>.*
money necessary t<» enforce it, wil
not only protect those who go away to
health (?) resorts, but the “stay at
homes" as well.
NO MORE FROU FROU.
"I used to love to ir nl in ciassy novels
of the frmi frou of silken skirts.”
“Well?”
“Rut now the girls aren’t wearing
enough skirt to froufrou.”
THE FINEST SOFT DRINK
AUGUST! DAIRIES
AGE STAMUDIZED;
PRODUCTS I3TEI
Milk Sold in the City Passes
City Test Before It Reaches
the Consumers. Dealers
Noted For Efforts to Keep
Up Trade.
lb a s .stem of milk ami sanitary in
spection. installed hv the Augusta hoard
of health, as well as the state authori
ties. the matter of unclean milk has
been abolished locally.
Milk now sold over the counters of Au
gusta's myriad dvug and soda stores is
guaranteed pure by the dealer, by the
retailer, hv the state and city authori
ties.
Within the year a dairy will like y he
established in Augusta which will sup
ply the milk trade here with the purest
of aerated milk for use by physicians
end for infants. This is the expressed
infention of a numbev of interested med
ical men of the community who have
p ; ueed their influence back of such an
enterprise.
The forward steps taken I y local
dairymen, working in conjunction with
he state authorities, in the past six
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Tallow Etc.
Otter Skins, Mink Skins, Coon Skins, Fox Skins, Etc.
We Make Returns Same Day Goods Are Received
Ship Us Your Hides Write For Prices
CRAWFORD & CO.
508-510 Reynolds St. Phone 226, Augusta, Ga. E.A. Lamar. Mgr
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THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
months alone would prove an interesting
chapter in reviewing tiie dairy field. Suf
fice it to say that the dairymen have en
tered heartily into co-opeVation with the
state authorities in the matter of pro
ducing more and better mi k, and have
taken to the suggestion offered by the
state chemists with- hearty enthusiasm.
Everybody knows, and has known for
a long time, that milk comes from the
cow. But it is only withirt recent years
that many f dks have paid any .attention
to where the cow •is kept. It was the
medical man who discovered within re
cent years that the most of the milk
supply of that, day was not fit for hu
man consumption: that much of It show
ed the presence of so many bacilli, bet
ter known as “germs.” as to indicate a
st be of general Impurity.
Natural y there was an immediate
turning to the discovery of the source
of contamination. Lt was found that
there was no particular source.
In many instances the cows from
which the milk came were tubercular or
d’sensed otherwise. The milk was es
sentially impure before drawn from
them. Then came the mi ker and tlie
dairy hand and investigation showed
that they were careless in many cases
and not overcleanly in hands or meth
ods. Then the milk can came under
the investigator’s ray and it was found
that it was left to lie around the
l arns ot barnyards with lid off col
let tng all manner of dust and dirt
Mown into it Then, at the shipping
depots it was learned that it was not In
frequent lv that some thirsty train hand
was wont to tip a can and take a drink
out of it. Then tlie retailer’s ways of
• Upping and bottling of the milk were
1 okerl 11 to and unclean conditions were
found. Then it was decided that a re
forming of the entire system was nec
essary and the government, national,
state and municipal, took a hand in it.
Pure Milk Demanded.
Of the cities in the South there was
none which showed more interest in as
suring itself a purer milk supply from
the first than this city. And, year by
year, as the work of keeping tabs on
the supply through records of the bacte
ria found by cuiture-p’ate count in va
rious samples taken from time to time
has become more and more systematic
the supply has gotten better and better.
It is not an uncommon thing in this
city for one of the inspectors to go out,
take samples of seme da'ryman’s milk
and he able to report within two or
three days just what degree of purity it
shows. If the number of bacteria in a
certain sample run more than so many
thousands to the cubic centimeter then
there is no doubt that there is too much
contamination present to safely trust to
the diease-resistive powers of the nor
mal man. The dealer and the dairy
man are both warned and if there is
not immediate betterment of tlie product
an ax comes down somewhere.
The milk supply of this city is now of
uniformly high standard and credit for
this condition is due jointly to the vigil-
THE
BOHANNON STUDIO
842 Broad St. Augusta, Ga.
Portraits of Quality
and High-Grade
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Commercial Work
REFRESHING
a nee of the various officials, the teadi
ness with which dairymen and dealers
improved conditions when shown the
sources of impurity and the eagerness
with which the railroads did their part
hv instructing employees in the caretul
handing of milk and by inaugurating a
cleaner and, when possible, quicker sys
tem of cavrying.
Other Products Guarded.
And not only is the present ndher>
ence to a high standard of milk assur
ance of comparative qurity of the direct
supply, but also of tlie cleanliness and
high percentages of food values in ice
■ ream, butter, buttermilk, cheese, sona
fountain drinks, cream and otlttv dairj
products, all of wh'ch are gotten in Geor
gia from the milk produced by Georgia
dairies.
So particular have dealers and public
a ik.' I ecome that many ice cream manu
facturers own their own daivies and get
from them the highest obtainable quality
of milk, making sure of its purity by
having frequent tests made.
While all those evils have been cor
rected and at an enormous aggregate ex
pense, that expense has been shared so
commonly by everybody that the price
“AUGUSTA IN 1914”
of milk has increased but very l'oi MX
anv part of the country and the siftjfl
ence in the milk has- been so e&siiv *3*
that any slight difference has
been cheerfully mt. iUil UtB
BEES ROUTED TOWN COUNCIL I
(Washington Herald.)
Never again will the members of
town council of Potomac, Alexandr'*
county, Virginia, hold an outdoor
ing. This is because they were route:*
by ti swarm of bees when they attegnß
ed to hold one recently. ?
Mayor W. E. Kidwelt, presiding o ffi*
cer of the council, was badly s t ung I *
the bees, which got into hjs elothfiS
and it was with great difficulty that*
he got rid of^them.
THE CHARM OF THE THEATRE I
“Going to the theatre again? tyj'S
von saw that piece only the othS
night.” is
"Yes, but not in my new frockJ
Fliegcnde Blaetter.