Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1913 — TO INSPECT YOUR YARDS WEDNESDAY [ARTICLE]

TO INSPECT YOUR YARDS WEDNESDAY

City Health Officer Will Have Several Alda to Tag Unsanitary Premises. The City Health Officer expects to make the clean-up program of next, week the most complete sanitafy movement ever undertaken in Rensselaer, and has a plan on foot that should result in mueh good. The good comes from the fact that all of us are interested in good health and all should know that cleanliness is essential to that end. It has been printed over the country *Swat the Flies,” and that admonition is only excelled by the 1913 version, “Starve the Flies.” The city council has adopted next Tuesday and Wednesday, April 22nd' and 23rd, as clean-up days and it is hoped to encourage every property owner and every tenant to get busy and clean up and burn up and destroy waste and rubbish of all kinds. It is hoped to make an appeal to our civic pride sufficient to accomplish the desired result, but the city health officer has the authority of the law to enforce correction of neglects, that endanger life as breeders of disease and his power covers a wide latitude It is hoped that he will not have to invoke the measures of punishment within that power and he won’t if people will get busy. The rake will accomplish much if you get behind it energetically during the next few days. The big clean-up is to start Tuesday morning and on Wednesday noon the aids of the city health officer will start out on a tour of inspection, and every premise in Rensselaer that appears to need

sanitary correction will be tagged. Then will come the city health officer and inspect the places reported unsanitary and measures taken to compel you to get right with the spirit of progress. There has been more early pride evidenced in Rensselaer than for many yeprs. It is in the air. People are daily becoming more tidy about their homes, and the fellow that is careless is going to be behind the times. Tonight when you gb home to your supper, look about the yard and see what is needed and either go to work or set some one to work on the job. Have it done when the inspectors come around next Wednesday afternoon. Move* the ash piles, put the tin ckns in barrels, have the unburnable rubbish moved to the dump pile and help in the movement to make Rensselaer the cleanest and best city in Indiana.