Allegany County MD Archives News.....EVENTS ALONG GEORGE'S CREEK September 25, 1907
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Evening Times, Cumberland, MD September 25, 1907
Bureau of the Evening Times, Lonaconing, Md., Sept. 25.

Seven or eight little children are slowly strangling to death in Gilmore and 
the physicians are busy with their antitoxin in trying to save the lives of 
these little ones, but nothing is being done to prevent a spread of this dread 
disease.  The sanitary conditions in Gilmore are even worse than in 
Lonaconing.  All the filth of one section of the village empties into the 
Nicklewhite lot at the Glis. Porter building.  A long open ditch into which 
several outhouses empty runs into a covered sewer at Livingston's store, and 
discharges into the big open cesspool--the Nicklewhite lot--and remains there.

One of Glis. Porter's little boys is down with diptheria and Mr. Porter called 
the attention of a Times representative to the Nicklewhite cesspool and the 
stagnant ditches, and shallow filthy wells at the Llewellyn tenements.

Gilmore is filthy and needs a good cleaning up, plenty of whitewash, better 
sewerage and better water.  Diphtheria is raging in this hamlet and there are 
several cases of typhoid fever at Harpersville.  All filth diseasess. 

It is said that the Gilmore school house is not well ventilated, and that 
should be looked after, also.  But whose business is it to look after it?

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