The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-17

structures, apartments, buildings and
places in the district, including all ves-
sells in the adjacent waters, and all cell
lars, sewers, passages and excavations
ofeyery sort, and inspect the safety and
sanitary condition, and make plans,
drawings and descriptions of the same
according to the regulations of the
Board. is-5i d
The duties of the Assistant Sanitary
Superintendent are the same as those
OF the Superintendent, but he commu-
nicates with the Board only through
his superior officer. The Sanitary In
spectors are required to make semi
weekly reports of the duties they have
performed, and of such facts as may
come to, their know wledge, pertaining to
the health of the district, as may be
deemed worthy the attention of the
Board, or their regulations may re-
quire. Tho Engineer is required to
make and supervise practical and scia
entific sanitary Investigations and to
prepare plans and reports relative
thereto. The police are required to
execute the sanitary rules, regulations,
and orders of the Board of Health; to
report all threatened danger to life or
health; all violations of the code of
health ordinances and of the health
laws, and all useful sanitary Informs
ton. The Police Board are required to
cooperate with the Board, of Health
for the promotion of theapublic health
and the safety of human life, and arc
authorized TO use the appropriate per-
sons and means for these purposes.
Indeed, without this cooperation the
Board of Health would be compara-
lively .powerless. u. -
The city of New York is divided into
seven Sanitary districts, each one of
speetor. Each district is divided into
four sections, with an Assistant In
spector to each section. This leaves
one Sanitary Inspe ctor-the city having
eight-who is assigned to duty at TIE
office Of the Sanitary Superihten lent.
The city of Brook lYn, which has seven
Inspectors, is divided into six districts,
in the same manner, with an Inspector
for each district, which is also divided
into four sections, each of which Is
under the charge of an Assistant In
spector. The towns of West Farms,
Yonkers, Stapleton, iPeeksville, Asto-
ria. Jamaica, 1rvington, Flushing and
Sing Sing, each have also an Assistant
Sanitary Inspector, making a total of
10 Inspectors and 3S Assistants attach
ed to the Sanitary Department. When
the danger of a pestilence shall have
passed, this number, however, Will be
reduced somewhat, TO be increased
again should occasion require ituia a,
The Sanitary Inspectors number 10,
Of1WnQLI ~ 1UAE9zTe4ulf6ui.D ny 1dM 70 Ue
"physictans of skill and practical pro-
fessfonal experiences; while the re-
mailder are 20 be selectediwtth refer
ence 10 theif practical knowledge of
scientific and sanitary m4tterst which
may especially qualif them for the du-
ties which may devolVe upon them.
The duties of the Inspectors, apart from
those already named, are prescribed by
the Board; but the powers conferred by
the Health Act upon fthei Superintend-
lenf aud his assistant extends also to
each of the Inspectors, who may enter
and examine all grounds buildings,
vessels and places In the districh ac-
cotding to such regulations Ras the
Board may adopt. ~
When a COMPLIANT Is made, in writ
ing, TO the Board of Health, that any
matter or thing in the Sanitary District
ifs In a foul, unwholesome or offensive
Condition, the letter is Endorsed and
numbered In the Complaint Depart
,ment, and sent at once to the Sanitary
Department. Here 1t passes into the
hands of the Inspector of the District
in which the alleged nuisance Is loca-
ted, who visits and examines 1t,
searches QUIT its causes, studies the man-
ner IN which 1t may affect the public
health, hnd reports fntuutely andin de-
tail all that may come to his notice
concerning the thing about which COM
plant has been made, together with an
opinion based upon personal examina-
ton, as to whether 1t is in reality dan
-gerons to life or prejudi icial to health.
The report is returned to the Sanitary
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4oTneya 4o5 aLne bpa6ul, Bhlo mays !la1ikHseS M e
proper orqer, IN Wnlen is
4 ~ Insir isll
1le4S nneeIdng ana Ptlssea N0- % ples
iof the order then pass into the hands OF
5ttips tne ne ~ l y At
y
Il lessee OF tenanL e.f Oh Oh tle y
~ W,I l3 y y Ee s-
I4tneol accompanied WIN an a1n1eHlt
e OF service. SCI, y = ~ iiis
wHATTHE BOARD OF HEALTH HAsDoNE.
We have taken a rapid survey of the
powers, duties, Organizations, and
sources of Information of the Board OF
Health, and The met hods by which they
promote the health OF the Sanitary Dis
trict, and iabate those evils which hy-
Rfeiie s6Ienoun6esy;a as ,danRerousi To life
by 2causiiR disease! 2" We viii now
glance for q moment at what has been
done, and We cannot otpresent this in bet
ter form than by giving the followine
table. taken fFom the books Of the
Board, , nI1 to the LIST inst. which In
icludes every species5 of nuisance. '.from
q filthy water closet mn to q Gigantic mi
boiling establish - .I7iis -, = >
Total Itfnbef of conn min h ,rAhi Ahirsisfynd
2S, 800: total number Of oenerIll orders
issued : rs. .6l6. total snum11a rIf5 fyeTI aTal
orders complied with. ia $50. total NUM-.
Der Of special orders issued; 4, ,499; total
ntiffihaf 5of sneciala orders enfnnIied
final orders issued, i,5l8; total nunibel
a T1oSjIfiad 3,,Sl Ilf,Isr, $sS,,, -Is1Sl ~,