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sus kept returning to the the desire to seek the most economical and most immediate solution to Sperryville’s problem.
DR. R.S. LeGarde, chief health officer for a district which embraces Rappahannock, Fauquier, Culpeper, Madison and Orange presided at Monday night’s meeting at the Rappahannock Court house in Washington.
He was introduced by Chairman of the Board of Supervisors Newbill Miller, who stated that the supervisors’ position was that “we’re not going to advise Dr. LeGarde to violate the law.”
The latest Sperryville crisis was precipitated when Dr. LeGarde appeared before the Board to say he was not going to issue anymore temporary health permits, especially to places serving food to the public. One of these places is in Sperryville.
Dr. LeGarde said the meeting was called “to explore any feasible means of abating the pollution of the Thornton River at Sperryville,” and he described present conditions—where lines discharge raw sewage directly into the river—as
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