Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1917 — Garbage Dumps Unsanitary. [ARTICLE]

Garbage Dumps Unsanitary.

Not a few cities dump their garbage upon plots of land located usually in outskirts of the city. This is not disposal at all, but simply the placing or removal of filth from one locality to another. One health authority has this to say in regard to dumping garbage on the outskirts: “Whole groups of zymotic diseases are traceable to ground conditions. When, as in some parts, soils are composed of an accumulation of decaying matters from the city, the building of houses over it may conceal but cannot destroy the contamination. More or Jess of the foul air must find its way nnt nf the soil. and endanger the health of the people living upon it.”