New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-13

The PUBLICE HEALTH OF THE CITY.
We have received the report Of the Standing Com
ktee on Public Health and Legal Medicine OF the New
York Academy CT Medicine, lengthy and interesting
document which should be happy to publish entire
had we the requisite space to spare.
The report starts out with tho assumption that the
present arrangements for the proper distribution Of
medical attendance and medicine to the INDECENT sick
are entirely inadequate and next to useless. This
position ia abundany fortified by cogen, facts and lucid
arguments, and the Committee propose the following
REMEDY
The remedy for these defects IL very simple and We
believe DO less feasible IL consists (4nd here pro-
pose for the consideration of ths Academy in the
appointment Of physicians aud for each Hard
m0reas me poor PoPalaoH may require 70 De paid
adeguIte sums for tAe sbioe and 10 be required 10 re-
side IN their resPecttre disfrids.
OF the uode Of appointment, whether Il should be by
the Beard Of Heatn-the City Depar melt OF Health
or remain the prerogatye OF the Dspensaes-vltn tne
change Ia the boundaries and number OF tneir districts
necessary to correspond with those Of the Wards-"e
have nought present to say except that should re-
main utterly aud forever discovered ON party POAcs,
and subject the additional proposition presently TO be
made. "
believe chat system of elt emOsynary medical relief,
of which these should cOnsluts the leading features,
would accomplish the great desdera.1m, that thus
the highest hind of charity would be bestowed In
manner 10 receive the sanction, AID enlist me approba
u
ceucy utterly unattain able without them.
SANITARY POLICE.
In econ with this subject of the reorganization
and prOvemcnt Of our Dspensary system tlere Is an
other al first glance only remotely related 10 II, out
which your C0muittee believe should De presented to
the Academy hs IL will be found on examination, 10 be
q great mp OrtaIce IN Itself and In reality OF sun great
Cr when considered In connection With Us relations 10
the outits OF Dspensa:y ply sicans.
We refer the subject OF duicpal SANITARY Police
and Regulations.
Tae value If good and efficient system Of govern
ment, aud Of property educated Dcunoens Ia tns de-
paIten and the pecuuiary aud other losses
sccrung continually from inefficient officers and badly
regulated arrsu gements have been often and so Tor
chilly portrayed, that nearly all must be sdcisntly Ia
uaT with them 10 render II unnecessary Tor your Com
niuee 70 dwell upon them here.
In no period OF the world did Publ; Hygiene sp-
urosch nearer 10 the certainty OF exact science tnsn
al present; the pubic CAUSES ct disease OF
the means of prevention better understood aud YET 10
proportion 10 the light sEed upon us, 1t would appear
that never the OF those means less apprecia
ted with few exceptions
Tax. for example, our own City. At an expense OF
about 100000 a river has be IN utr Iduced into our
midst but for what public sanitary purpose Is II ever
/ usedi
miles Of subterrauesn sewers are annually added u
those already made for the ostens0e purpose OF car
ryng aVsy beyond ss ht aud snel the vast accu nla
lions of fh On the surface. 20 toe streets an guer
are more and more engorged With decomPosing garbage
/ and filth.
Hundreds Of thousands OF dollars are annually aPpT0
pqfed 10 cleanse the surface, out the clouds oil dust Ia
crease in density aud the air grows more and more
| taintedsyitn disgusting doors
But more important than all no such measures arr
enforced domciary visits by Judcious men 10 aIg
and reouire Internal Cleanliness and ventilation. Wiz
ali the new light furnished By Philanthropy and Science
dwellings AZ osded into alleys and cut up into nall
er ano smaller sections for separate occupancy-ceA
and blind courts more thronged than ever sn'
with hundreds Of willing hearts and able heads, We hAy
no SANITARY police worthy Of the name
These are gigantic evils and though less endurao'
because of the ease and certainty of the remedy ye
Aureap stable recurring the strength Of Hercules
rectty H. But we may be asked, What and where
the remedy for this state of thingsl If tis saa
Of such eertAnty. and ease of application pom. u ou
and shov us the mode of administration" To thi
The number Of cellar inhabitants Is now nearly %0'OOo'