New-York daily tribune., 1866-02-19
THE PUBLIC HEALTE.

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enccs between the two Houses having been ei-
lected by the Committee Of Conference; whereby
the four Police Commissioners, the Health Or
ficer of the Port, with three physicians and one
layman to be nominated by the Governor and
confirmed by the Senate, will constitute the
Commission.
And now We may say that while We have
recommended no person to the Governor, we
trust he will consider the physicians named in
the Senate bill and nominate any of them
whom he NAV find eminently qualified He
cannot nominate them all, as but three phySl'
clans are to be appointed; but we hope and
trust that he will nominate for this Commission
the four best men in our City, regardless OF
their politics, so that they will fearlessiy do
their whole duty. But, if they do that they
must provide for the absolute and deiinitiye
removal from our City of the whole business OF
slaughtering animals, with the subsidiary fat
trying talow melting, entrail-teeding, swine
fa,tening nuiSances which FIJI tie City with
noiSome insects, corrupt the air OF extensive
districts with horrible stencheS. and poison
our little ones by thou ndS every year
As Citv-Inspector Boole knows and pr.
yatelv admits, though he does nothing Saying
he lacks power to abate them. We
who are in power in the Stats shall have to face
the responsibility Of this measure; we can well
afford to do it if it is so executed as TO stop the
wanton massacre Of our innOconts ana render
New.York the healthy City that She should be.
If we fail to do this, we shall suffer, rs we
ought: hence, ii is right that We should. through
our Executive, select the men through whom
the great work is to be performed. Though all
the Commissioners were our political adver-
saries, we should still be held responsible for
the execution and effects Of the measure. Let
us meet that responsibility maniully. and prove
that our object is not partisan, but the improve
mcnt of the health Of this bounteously endowed
but shamefully miSruled emporium.
We regret that so able and experienced a
legislator as Mr.. Littlciohn should declare him.
self opposed, on principle to State Commissions
for such purposes For in the first place. the
ends sought by this measure are no, within the
reach Of our Municipal rule, while the abuses
10 be corrected affect the health not only Of the
whole State but Of the entire country. i
pestience might be generated by filth AID
neglect in Brooklyn or any other suburb, which
would difuse its rayages over the whole Union.
There is exactly the same reason for creating
this Board as has for half century .mpelled the
State to maintain supervision over our external
commerce in the interest Of Public Health.
But this is not all 1t is more than thirty
years since we voted for the introduction of the
Croton Water into our City That Introduction
was effected through the instrumentality Of a
Commission created as this is, and maintained
as we trust this will be- Nobody objected to
that and We firmly believe that our City is
Ten Millions less in debt to-day than she would
have been if our municipal BoOles and Farleys,
and W. K. Stewarts and c. II. Truckers, had had
the handling of the money. Who doubts it
Again: The Central Park has been created
and managed by State Commission. ma
iorty Of the Commissioner, We understand.
are of the Union party; though their President,
who wields most Of the patronage, is not.
When was il ever even imagined that any party
capital was made. or sought to be made,
out Of the Central Park? l. it not notorious
that, while majority OF the Commissioners
are on one side in politics, a majority Of their
employees are on the other! And who has
wished it otherwise
The Police and Fire Departments are also un.
der State Commissions and most of their en-
ployes were appointed by Unionists; yet We
are confident that majority of both the Police
men and the Fircmcn are this day Of the ad.
verse party; while the Commissioners could
not tell the politics Of quarter OF them. We
dislike the influences which have long swayed
the Police Commissioners yet we never heard
Of their asking the politics OF man presented
for appointment at their hands, and doubt
whether they ever inquired or cared.
1t is notorously true that all that is least bad
in our Metropolitan rule is derived from State
Commissions; all that is utterly corrupt, brazen-
ly shameless, or prominently incapable and
lOathsome-(witnesso our infamous Markets.
halls from the City, We wish it were
otherwise, but We must defer TO the obvious
facts.
Some excellent people have called Peace