The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-07-29

report Of the City Inspector, we find that the
most unmistakable nuisances exist in this city
Notwithstanding the alleged fact that the Health
Wardens report at his Office every morning
for duty, it does not follow that they perform
any other services We do not believe they
inspect every house and premises in their
districts, as the Inspector insinuates. On
the contrary, we know a good many places
they have not inspected at all. We our
selves, within week, during stroll along the
East river between Twenty-eighth and Forty
third streets found the cutters of the cross streets
reeking with filth and the air almost insupporta-
ble A few days ago, Ann street, between Broad
way and Nassau, was quagmire of mud and
nastiness and some of the most respectable inha-
bitants there said it had not been attended to for
long time. We were informed yesterday that ia
Fifty-second street, between the Ninth and Tenth
avenues, there is large number Of lots in the
most shocking condition-occupied by COW sta
bles, filled with excrements, garbage and refuse
they infect the air, and make it pestiferous. Ia
Forty-third street, between the same avenues, the
cutters are reeking with stagnant water, and
in particular in the rear of No. 1913. In the same
street privies remain uncovered, cxhaing their
odors to the hot sun. In Thirty-seventh, Thirty
eighth and Thirty-ninth streets, near Ninth
avenue, the cutters are also full of dirty
water On Forty-thrd and Forty-fourth
streets, in the same quarter, on the north
side, the lots are filed with garbage. In the
Sixteenth and Twentieth wards, the same state Of
things existed up to within few days, If it does
not exist now. Passengers going up to their
country residences by the Hudson River Railroad
assure us that between Chambers street and
Thirty-first street the smells are overpowcring
In the rear Of the Exchange only the other day,
the same thing was observed In Twenty-eighth
street, between Fourth and Madison avenues,
the washing of large number of carriages in
the street, the stoppage Of the cutters by builders,
and their inattention 10 the complaints Of the
neighborhood causes the water to set back, partly
to overflow the street, and in few hours it is
covered with green slime, the swash of dirty car
riages and reeking horses. In Twenty-sixth
street, between the Seventh and Tenth avenues,
the cutters and sunken places in the street are
entirely unattended to, as we are informed on the
best authority. Even the Board of Health adj
mits there are $50 sunken lots required to be i'm
mediately filled up. We have no doubt that upon
further inquiry it will be found that hundreds Of
other places equally neglected may be found. and
when found we viii make a note of them" The
Inspectors report shows, we admit, that the ge-
neral health Of the city is better this year than it
has been for years past. This is owing to the in
uea 0f no nd fha
Of the sewer system. The City Inspector can
claim no credit for this. On the contrary. he Is
obliged to acknowledge the large increase in the
bills of mortality for the last two weeks. And rs
regards the strokes Of the sum- which he reports
as the causes of the sudden deaths, we would ask
one question:-Have not four of these cases died
Of the black vomit, removed to. Staten Island
from thiscity? AT all events we have heard 50.
1t is all nonsense for the Inspector or any Of
his subordinates to blow and buster. The city
is not in clearly condition, and everybody
knows it. We do not say these things to alarm
any one, but an ounce Of prevention is worth a
pound of cure. Nor will our readers wonder that
we had so seriously considered this subject, when
we inform them that we learn from an official
parsonage, whose duties compel him to remain at
the Quarantine station, that eight deaths have
occurred there within the last thirty-sx hours of
yellow fever among the employees at the station.
A laundress, whose business it was to purify the
clothes of passengers from infected ports, is dead
her husband, in the vigor Of health, has followed
her; and two young children, also, have fallen
victims to the disease. Nor is this all. Persons
are constantly coming up from the island who
have been in the neighborhood of the disease, and
who have had personal intercourse with the sick
As We have already minated we are no
alarmists, but it is the most dangerous and the
most wicked Of all receptions TO keep back the
truth when by FORMULATING II in time we may
spare the city great calamity.