Post Number 39, on the state pressuring Davis regarding its
substandard jail in 1937, brought to mind the equally if not more dramatic
episode of state pressure in 1914-15 to change the entire town’s profoundly
unsanitary condition.
I report this episode in two parts. One, I quote the brief
summary I gave in my book Davis. Two,
I reproduce the original state report. (In the hope of greater clarity, the
reproduction is of my marked up copy.)