The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-11-25
STEPHEN SMITH, Chairman.
JOHN o. STONE.
JAMES CRANE.
The following is the report OF the Sanitary Super

The following is the report OF the Sanitary Super
intendent on street cleaning
The special cleaning OF ordered by the Metropolitan
October 1859 at an average expenditure OF 1854 per week
the cutters and gathering into heaps for the con-
tractors TO cart AWAY excepting 10 certain streets from which
Extent OF WORK.
The total length OF streets cleaned the of the
Board and paid for out Of special funds between
he ehs s per wess TINS work com
hoard aHa S me to have SO cleaned and in all other
cleaned and swept and unit, scarcity forbade
IN tho hydrants and hose freely employed to
he streets between tne BATTERY Sns
OF Health week during the and hall months hero
length Of these streets south Of The
Tenth, Eleventh Sixteenth and Twentieth received
the streets Occupied ~ tesemea houses @'' IL
tn, p ,,,s s OF agTIERs AND FILTHY rLAors
fected directed IN s naraons the
III Soa Sa SGa s1 sns
ordinary spri.sns carts SuiSt lime Chords 3, lime
to be best adapted in certain quarters
the Suan.'lss 81 materials used dsnlsehs streets
Of s%e line and & 81 sss G q 1 tar casks
The oil Of coal tar seemed the useful and
ralnsss was far the ms. permanent IS asbuton mos.
fecis dsnfocan by being finally carried
ana sewers where such disineson was equally as impor
here snd rom ae
sewage seems be we established that less
when given mass of sewage or gutter th will
almost completely control prevent putreacon
During dry ike the past. where tho accumulated
rama and and benenth the broken and rough base
with broons and hoes these cheap methods Of dsnfecng
are important aduncs to sanitary cleansing, though
he
Tho accompanying vouchers show the total Of
work ana materials loot up as i9ows me accounts nave
sanitary @ dem Office and daily e
kept by the foreman at tho depot in Worth street
ray roll llaDor) rZolU ~
Horse and stable expenses 20 "a
due 70 the Board Of Health that The fact Should Be- dis
Of has been na "a thoroughly the
w'qe ys 5 Il a
such expsdens and piece work to keep the streets
training Of as will insure absolute
srabs that certain Kind d authority should VIM and
strain reckless persons from throwing garbage aud refuse
not the should be cleaned with abso thorough
and all foul cutters should be washed much ofieer
s p Of e% o @ BE-
BY the win BE- an
ehder New be o
pa's s
squads OF aborers can be so trained that they viii execute
Further is that the 1by
when made absolutely clean be kept clean for only
fraction OF tho cost OF the first cleaning and that thorough
ness and in street cleaning are compatible with each
that when the Board Of Health had thoroughly cleansed
and washed the cutters the Inhabitants would for several
days keep voluntary repetition of the work Of cleaning
before their dwellings Even IN such streets as axter
and Wie the worst In the CITY, this trait
casonally reported by the foreman of the work.
The hea tn and welfare of the city demand that the streets
be kept thoroughly and constantly cean and there
why result that Is much desired and important
hp nd nlt
has and money for the work, s conclusions on
the subject should aid securing the needed improvements
These improvements only be attained by systematic
and daily removal garbage and refuse in part OF the
city, and the positively thorough cleaning Of eyoy paved
twice every week, and than twice n the
moi