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MONDAY. MARCH 31.
SCREEN USE AS
Hi HEALTH
Principle of the Screen Should
Be Used Liberally Says Geor
gia State Board of Health.
Atlanta, Ga.— lt is time to begin
using screen, says the Georgia
State Board of Health—using it lib
erally and effectively In preventing
the spread of contagion and in check
ing the carriers of it.
There is no more vitally important
element in the protection of health
and the prevention of disease than
the screen; and under this designa
tion may be Included not only the
window and door screens of the home,
but the proper screening of the well,
the outhouse, the manure pile, against
the spread of any infection.
It is better and safer to go without
chairs or even without beds and sleep
on the floor, than to live in an un
■**eened house. Flies, mosquitoes and
•r. insects are known carriers of
t 'ise. The special function of the
fl. u the scheme of nature seems to
be 6: -keep typhoid germs in circu
la 5,. gathering them upon filth and
d4_ siting them upon food in the
ks hen or dining room whence they
art taken into the body through the
mouth. Flies are known, too, to con
vey the germs of dysentery and in
fan ile paralysis, as has been discov
ered by recent investigation.
A, particular kind of mosquito, the
anopheles, is known beyond question
to be the only means by which the
germ of malaria is conveyed from the
body of one person to that of an
other.
Therefore, it is most important to
exclude flies and mosquitoes from the
home. Every opening in the house
should be screened against them.
When flies do get a chance to get in,
they shosuld be caught in a trap or
on sticky fly-paper.
Stop Fly-Breeding.
Not only should the house be
screened against the entrance of the
common fly, but the barnyard manure
pile should be screened against his
breeding. Ninety-five per cent or
more of all the flies are bred in the
manure pile; effectively covering it
so as to exclude flies, is the only
method of preventing fly-breeding.
It is most important, therefore, to
screen the privy against the fly; and
it is equally important to build it so
that the contents cannot pollute the
soil. Every farmer knows that after
pasturing cattle or hogg on the same
ground for two or three years, the
animals begip to lose their health;
many of them will sicken and die.
' reason of this is the production
hii| V _tr e an!mal of disease germs pecu
and the dissemination of
these germs on the ground whence
they find their way into other and
healthy animals causing sickness and
death. The same is true as to man;
continued pollution of the soil by man
lender., it unsafe for him to live upon
because of disease; and to maintain
health and retain life, he must guard
against it.
Essential to Health.
The sanitary privy screened, both
against flies and ground pollution is,
therefore, most essential in the small
towns and on the farm, where sewage
systems are impracticable; and the
content should be removed to a dis
tance from the home and the well at
least once a month, and buried two or
three feet under ground.
Every farm house, every country
school and church should be provided
with a thoroughly sanitary privy, built
according to approved plans, and ar
rangements should be made to have
it kept in a clean and sanitary con
dition, so as to make soil pollution
impossible. A single unsanitary out
house of this sort, polluting soil and
water, may spread contagion and dis
ease to an entire community; in fact,
many instances are known where this
very thing has happened.
It is impossible to describe in de
tail the proper plans and method for
the construction of a sanitary privy
in the space of this article; but there
is nothing more important to health,
particularly in the rural districts. The
state board of health will be glad to
furnish upon application and free of
cost, plans for its inexpensive con
struction.
The screen, too, should be applied
to the well, the source of drinking
water. The day of the "old oaken
bucket” is past; the only thoroughly
safe well today is that located beyond
the possibility of the seepings of fiith.
it should be walled with masonry and
then covered over the top with an
arched covering of cement or con
crete, through which is inserted a
pump for drawing the water. The
entirely covered well and pump is the
only safe and sanitary water system
for the farm, the country school and
the country church; otherwise by one
means or another, infection from filth
rr »■ at any time get into the drinking
if/ier.
'The liberal use of the principle of
the screen is urged by the state board
of health in keeping out flies, mos
quitoes and other insects; in protect
ing milk, drinking water and all arti
cles of food. Only in this way can
immunity from typhoid, dysentery,
malaria, infantile paralysis and kin
dred dangerous diseases be insured.
BEST KNOWN COUGH REMEDY.
For forty-three years Dr. King’s
New Discovery has been known
throughout the world as the most re
liable cough remedy. Over three mil
lion bottles were used last year. Isn't
this p.trct? It will get rid of your
J. J. Owens, of Allendale, S. C., writes
cough, or we will refund your money,
the way hundreds of others have done:
"After twenty years, I find that Dr.
King's New Discovery is the best rem
edy for coughs and colds that I have
ever used.” For coughs or colds and
all throat and lung troubles, it has no
equal. iOc and SI.OO at all druggists.
MRS. HUNT
IS RELEASED
Hysterical After Night in Cell.
Graham and Wife Confined in
Hospital.
Atlanta, Ga. —Mrs. D. E. Guerrant.
carried to police station w-ith her hus
band early Sunday morning, after ha
had shot Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Graham,
who occupied apartments with them
at 256-B Courtland street, was re
leased Sunday forenoon, nervous and
hysterical from her confinement in
Jail during the night.
The three other principals in the
tragedy are still held, Graham and
his wife in the hospital because of
their wounds, Guerrant in custody of
the police without bond until the out
come of their injuries is determined.
Graham’s condition is precarious, as
he is shot through the abdomen. Mrs.
Graham is shot in the hip and is in
nc danger.
New' details of the tragedy were ob
tained from a statement made by
Mrs. Graham through her attorney
Colonel Thomas B. Felder, the first
story that has heen told of their side
of the controversy.
Denounces Guerrant's Act.
“A cold-blooded assassination," is
the bitter denouncement of Guerrant's
act made by Mrs. Graham, who de
clares that her husband was shot
down, and herself accidentally, with
out provocation, or without chance to
defend themselves.
She confirms Guerrant's statement,
made to the police, that a dispute over
room rent w-as the basis of the trou
ble. but varies from it in important
details, and denies absolutely that
Guerrant was threatened by her hus
band.
Interesting gossip concerning the
two families is had from friends. Gra
ham is from Huntsville, Ala., where
his family is wealthy and respected
A brother, a p-ominent automobile
dealer, Is expected to reach here this
morning at 3:45 o'clock to assist him.
Mrs. Graham is also from Hunts
ville, and has been married but lit
tle more than a year. She was Miss
Rand, prominent socially, her fami’y
being accounted among the oldest in
Alabama.
Both Came From Huntsville.
Guerrant likewise comes from
Huntsville, and it was an old friend
ship that led the two families to share
apartments. Mrs. Guerrant is an At
lanta woman, formerly Miss Wood
ward, it is said, and is now at her
mother’s home, though her husband
refuses to reveal the address.
The story told by Guerrant to Call
Officers Anderson and Watson, who
arrested him immediately after the
shooting, was that the Grahams had
gotten behind in their room rent and
were preparing to leave and take their
possessions without leaving security.
This he refused to allow them to do
it fs alleged, and on Saturday nlghf,
or rather early Sunday morning, Gra
ham came home drinking heavily,
burst into the bed room where Guer
rant and his wife had retired, and
threatened bodily damage with a
whiskey bottle. Then, asserts Guer
rant, he shot in self-defense.
“1 certainly hope he will not die, I
never wanted to kill him, only to pro
tect myself,” said the prisoner Sun
day afternoon.
Story Told by Mrs. Graham.
Mrs. Graham’s story, with its im
portant variations from the former
is as follows:
"We rented a portion of the apart
ment from Mr. Guerrant, and In order
to help pay for it we sub-let a-room
to a young man friend, also from
Huntsville. Lately we decided to move, \
owing to continued drinking and is I
turbance on the part of Mr. Guerrant,
and when we came to settle the rent
he disputed the amount, about $1?,
claiming that additional should he
paid because of the young man we
had with us.
"This my husband refused to do,
and the matter remained undecided.
Saturday night Mr. Graham went up
town to the barber shop, and Mr.
Guerrant asked him to come into his
room on return, that he wished to talk
over something with him. When Mr.
Graham got hack I went with him,
knowing Mr. Guerrant to be drinking’,
and fearing a quarrel.
"It was only after • few words that
Mr. Guerrant began to shoot, utterly
without provocation, and wildly be
cause of the whiskeq. One shot hit
me, another struck Mr. Graham.
"After he had wounded us, he and
Mrs. Guerrant ran out and left us t 0
suffer. It was a cold-blooded assas
sination.”
LARGEST SINGLE DAY’S
EXCAVATION OF SLIDE
Panama —The largest excavation
from a single slide in one day since
tiie commencement of the canal op
erations was made Friday when 10,-
184 cubic yards were removed from
the Cucaracha slide by five steam
shovels.
The movement of the slide con
tinues, but the removal of the dirt
Is progressing favorably. The Pan
ama residents of the canal zone who
must abandon their homes before
September will be taken care of by
the Panama government. By act of
assembly, each family will be grant
ed a section o/ land on the site of the
new town of Gorgona, and along the
upper Chagres river.
Many sufferers from rheumatism
have been surprised and delight'd
with the prompt relief afforded by ap
plying Chamberlain's Liniment. No'
o*o case of rhenumatlsm in ten ;e
--quires any internal treatment what
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