New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-10-24
WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER p, 1866

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must compliment the new contractor on his good
work, and trust that he may not be differently re-
ported by me in the future. There are many
streets, however, which need to be newly ditched,
and notice the boxes, etc. with kitchen ofal are
not always removed, as should be the case.
Visiting the French Market early on last Sum
day morning, had to condemn some diseased
meat (Which is the first case of the kind have so
far met With belonging to a butcher occupying |
stall No. II. This man is now in custody, and will
be tried before Recorder Gastinel, on Thursday
coming.
Respectfully urged on your honorable body the |
importance of Recommending to the proper autho- |
rites the hygienic impropriety of permitting the
vending of stale fish In past report, and permit
me to again bring this matter before you. The |
fish market at no time should be open after 0 |
O'Clock NJ; yet the law allows the sale of fish,
shrimps and crabs as late as II O'Clock n, the |
whole year round. This is all wrong. A personal
inquiry into the matter will bring overwhelming |
proof of this truth. After u O'CLOCK, all fish, ETC.,
not positively odoriferous is iced for the morrow.
The water resulting from the ice used such fish
as may not have been required for sale, is turned
off at IL O'Clock on each day, where these fish, |
etc, are kept. On such occasions the cir is per-
fectly pestferous for several blocks and is the
occasion of numerous complaints have to-day
issued notice interdicting this practice.
But lwould respectfully recommend that no fish
or shrimps be permitted for sale after they were
twelve hours old.
have cansed two more captains to be fined for
introducing hides without permit into my dis
trict. have personally looked into the important
question of hides. There is necessity for their
ever being wet They wetted purposely TO
gain weight. The buyers purchase them wet, and
hence they are in the habit Of selling them in the
same condition. They are thus sold by the
butchers in the very skirts of our city. The hides
are thus prepared After skinnng the beef, the
butcher throws the hide in vat charged with
brine; here it remains for six weeks, when it is
taken out and rolled into bundles, without pre-
OiJIpCIiOuahie
and prejudicial to health.
Respectfully, G. II. TEBAULT, NJ. ~,
Health Officer Second District.
The following is the report of DR.. Lewis, health
officer Of the Third District
NEW ORLEANS, Oct %. 1866.
| Honorable Board of Health
| Gente,ee13-Ihe sanitary condition of the dis
| trict continues to improve. There have been but
| few cases of yellow fever and of cholera during
| the past week. The street commissioners com
plain of the neglect of the contractors in discharg
| ing their duties. Upon investigation | discovered
that those assuming the title Of contractors were
| only agents of Mir. White, member of the city
council. l addressed Mr. White on the subject Of
| the filthy condition Of the streets, and was in
formed by him that it was owing to the illness Of
the foreman. AS the foreman is now restored to
health, no further excuses can be offered. letter
| addressed to Dir. Smith, president of the Board Of
| Health, in which the writer complained of Chris
terms brewery, on Moreau street, and referred by
| Dr. Smith to me, was examined, and finding good
| cause for the complaint Mr.. Christern placed
under bonds by the recorder for his appearance
4 in court tomorrow morning to answer to the
charge against him of violating section l9th, H. o.
| Having nothing of special importance to report,
'''N - '-0-'', E. s. LEWIS.
The health officer Of the Fourth District, DR..
| Hulse, reported as follows
HEALTH OFFICE, FOURTH DISTRICT,
New Orleans, Oct. 49, 1866.
70 the Honorable resident and Board of Health New Or
Geatlenen-For the preceding week, I have the
| honor to report that my duties have been of the
usual routine character, notrequiring, as think,
any special remarks in reference to the different
departments inspected.
have to report case Of yellow fever, now
dying at the Louisiana hotel and case of poison
ing by laudanum, in young 1rishman, aged "a,
with suicidal intent and result. This oc-
Cured on Saturday morning. two ounce
vial was found in his room, containing four or FIVE
drachms of laudanum, and the presumption was
strong that he had taken all but the visible re
mains in the vial, ."s
1t was also alleged that the deceased had
a two nights previously taken an additional ounce
!. The usual remedial measures were resorted Il
v without avail including the use of the stomach
~ considerable quantity. 1his was the third attemp
of the deceased to destroy himself by this means
- The two vials bore the label of a Well-know
~ druggist in the Fourth District.
II An examination OF the health ordinance, in i
II bearings on the case, failed to afford me the r.
ts quisite grounds on which to base an affidav
= T. against the druggist who furnished the poison
+ consequently. it was not made.
~ Very respectfully,
Your Obedient servant,
a JOHN j. HULsE, NJ. d.,
Health Officer Fourth District
!. DR.. Stone, in reference to the subject of tn
y selling of poisonous and dangerous drugs, sug
l. gested by the report of DR.. Huse, remarked thg
y city ordinance prohibited it except under Gel
tainrestrctions If this were not done they,migi
Us always be readily procured for the purposes {
. murder as we'll as suicide. He saw no necessity
e however, for any action of the board in this cast
y Dr. Hulse, in.reply to au inquiry by membe
of the board, said that the druggist referred t
was Mr.. Hastings.
le The secretary read the ninth section of tn
VI health ordinance, as follows:
10 Sec. 8. No poisonous medicine, drug, prepare
g ton substance shall be held for sale, or solo
or given, or administered, except for lawful pu
5, poses and with proper motives, and by person
~ competent to give the directions and preGautlor
III as to the use thereof; nor shall any bottle, boz
O. parcel, orreceptacle thereof be delivered to an
. person unless the same is marked Poison"
"a large and legible letters. nor under any ercun
"a stances to any person who may be supposed, prt
70 sumed judged capable or tesirous of using fl
ID any illegal or improper purpose; under penalt
of not less than ten dollars nor more than OF
III hundred dollars for each and every odense.n
OIL No further action was taken in the premises.
ry DR.. Foster offered a resolution to suspend IL
as proclamation of the governor declaring Gerta
ports infected. The resolution was offered und'
re the following provision in the seventh section
ls shall apply to and be enforced at the quarant1
station the Atehafalaya river. from the first
| May to the first of November Of each year; al
! also when the governor shall have issued his pr
clamaton, as provided by the thirteenth sectio
ar and in such case shall remain in full force un
sw suspended by resolution voted for by two>thirt
he of the members of the Board Of Health"
is Mr.. Creevy seconded thGHesoluton.
Mr. DIcCoard was undes the impression that
M had been the custom for the Board of Health
to request the governor to revoke his proclamatiC
re- Dr.. Foster said that this was an error
We The president said the.law evidently empower
ng the board to suspend the proclamation.
de- The resolution was then unanimously passt
ed and the secretary was directed to have it pt
or lished. 1t will be feand officially advertised
er- another column.
gh Then the board adjourned.
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not ReecrderA' Courts.
FIRST DIsrRIQT.-Alfred Daniel, the negro
eir rested on a charge Of numbering another Negro
the 8the parish of Jefferson, in August last was
ave terday turned over by order of Recorder Ahern
eed Constable Vanderwatl, and was taken to jail
cize Carroton to await trial.
ital N. Derbe, late clerk in Mr.. D. fl. Holm
but dry goods store, and charged with stealing
lion wards of eight hundred dollars worth Of his
not poyer's goodsfrom the store, upon being arralg
This yesterday, pleaded guilty, aud the case was