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SPECIAL NUMBER a Pure Wmd anad Predkdk £©nalkre°€©°©p(gra(Hl©iffi asid llidipd 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 • \ • —■ BOTTLED BY 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 DELICIOUS rDAI4/i'ADi\ f TA (jKAWi (Ml) a w. CASH BUYERS OF Hides Furs Wool 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 Bftjy AHv 0 ItiPrJrl JaGaam 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 # 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.