CLEAN YARDS.

Shannon News, 15 October 1929, Page 1

CLEAN YARDS.

' DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE. (Co)itribute(d by the Department (of Health). One of the first essentials of the development of good health is the kep ihg of a proper kind of home, and an essential feature of such a home is the satisfactory disposal of waste products known as garbage. A home with a yard in it has advantages. It improves the appearance of the home, affords a place for the children »to play, and a garden space providing a supply of l'reth vegetables and flowers for the home. Therefore everyone should take a pride in keeping the yard and surroundings as sanitary as possible, for often the dirty back yard, the unweeded garden, ‘‘grown rank and gone to seed” indicates undesirable sanitary conditions within the home. If the busy housewife keeps a home in a clean nd healthy state it behoves the husband to see that the heme surroundings are also kept clean and orderly, though it may mean an occasional absence from his favourite bowling green, golf course, cricket ground, or tennis court ou some Saturday afternoon. The physical effort occasioned by such endeavours will prove very beneficial to him, besides, the pleasure of seeing tangible results of his muscular endeavours is a compensation worthy of the effort. Ordinarily the most- common class of nuisance met with in yards is the garb-

age heap. This garbage heap may become a real menace-tj health and order and tidiness as it begins' to ferment and decay. It is generally composed of a large variety of substances, ashes being ahvays a chief constituent. If wholly composed of ashes it would not be so dangerous; that is, not- so great a nuisance, but ever, then the dispersal of ashes over the premises in question and the neighbouring premises and houses would be no slight inconvenience and annoyance once t’he heap grows dry and gusty winds prevail. But the heap always contains far more, injurious matter. In it are sure to be found bones f.nd scraps of meat, vegetable peelings, and rotten vegetables, oyster shells, old and filthy rags, pieces of carpet, mats, sweepings from the iioor, empty cans, and sometimes manure. HARMFUL GERMS.

All this mess once it gets thoroughly moistened by rain and warmed by tin. hot sun, develops very unpleasant ami objectionable qualities. It breeds flies by the ten thousand which go everywhere; even to the milk and bread and butter upon the table, carrying along witV them upon their bodies and legs minute quantities of this' a-bomirfhble concoction and millions of harmful germs. In properly-conducted houses this garbage heap is not present, because not necessary. The most injuri- *. us jiarts of it wastes from the table, '.ike meat scraps,, bones, vegetable peel-

iligs, and so forth should be burned. Another good plan is to place garbag 1 n covered metallic containers that renter the contents inaccessible to dogs aid other and do not. permit die breeding of flies. It is preferable io wrap all garbage in paper before oeing deposited in the container. This aeons the., cans clean and prevents ra pid fermentation in summer, Garbag'. l cans should be thoroughly.scoured from imo to time. 'Certain waste products mn also be buried itr the garden, and hereby be a means of enriching the -oil.

Accumulating -rubbish also creates a lire hazard and is not merely offensive o the aesthetic senses but affords an ormortiu in certain localities for nosquito breeding in tin cans and oths; iiscarded receptacles that become filler , ith rain water and house the insec orvae and pupae until maturity. Ashe: ■nd dust, are easily moved by the wind ■nd when blown about irritate eyes ose, and throat and pre-dbpo.se to bac

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refuse mspo.ral to the public health ire therefore many and the sanitary Iwpcs.rl of waste, more particularly arbage, is important