, 1869-04-11
PATENT STRENGTHENING.


tary system prevailing in that region WIS
thus described:
IAN dead animals large an Fmall-are quickly
removed by the winged sca- .oxrrB-the Tultures |
IA heavy nne denounced. These voracions car
sested ior s1sis day, ior sasy csn Sent aad see
their food Tor miles aw.J and gather to y By the
hundreds and taouEantsl They arc also dcath on
Siads I'd eoaseaaealy r. highly esteemed d sad
yefT popular scayeugcr.f u
We commend this matter to tho attention
OF the Chicago Board Of Health. We are
sure its thoroughness and efhcacy will 50 |
cure for It the cordin1 favor Of the public. |
Some years ago, before the days Of The !
Pacific Hallway, the general Govern1n 1nent,
with proper disregard Of prejudioes which |
too often prevent our adopting the -e1pedi- |
ents Of o1dar countries, sought to overcome |
the perils and 1iisnsters Of transportation on
the plains by introducing came1s-the ships
Of the desert-to perform labors for which
our own domestic animals we're untitled.
Tho plan WAS q sueocss, and the camel was
natu1alized as an American animal Of Asiatic !
descent. There are in certain minds old |
rHejodioes against bazzards, crows, snd
other birds nf cninn tnates, but il
the tuzznrds and c1ows Of the air can and
Will perform the duty Of scavsngers, with
IN efficiency not attsinable by man in tho
experience. of our Board Of Health, why
should not the board employ them heree
II the Sanitary Superintendent hires smith
to perform scayenger work, and Smith fails,
md tho board has reason to believe that
! Brown would do the work, they will, Of
cou1se, discharge Smith and employ Brown.
Now the Sanitary Superintendent Of Chi
| cago can Ind otherngents who will perform
the work better than forty Smiths md
forty Browns can ever hope to do it, and at
asvmg OF MI expense, why should he not
employ themP Buzzards and crows ara
generally shy. They carefully keep ont Of
the way Of men, especially il the latter have
my weapon looking like gun. This is the
result Of their experience. They know that
they arc regarded As outlaws, to be shot on
sight. Bat the fact that In Louisiana and
other Southern States such birds aro pro
tected by Law, and are never shot, and nre
not afraid Of men, ahowa that they may be
hired at a small sala,y 10 the very useful
Office for which nnture intended thau1 Can-
not our Board Of Health t1y the expert
ment2 Cannot they secure half dozen Of
each variety Of these winged scavenees,
and, adorning them with an official shield,
On which their rank is designated, put them
to work on those streets Of the city not at
tended 10 By the. city officers Is it not
probable That, after weeks work, Il one or
two Of then, be allowed TO- visit their fam
lies and 1elate the story Of the harvest
which this city affords, there would come
buck with them such body Of their kin
dred that hencefozth the whole sc4@enger
work Of the city might be
safely left 10 them All that
the city would then need in the way Of
health organization would be Superin.
tendent to keep the records, write ont the
reports and make out the estimates for his
| own salary for the next year. It has been
demonstrated no clearly and so often that
mortality in Chicago is in great measure
dependent on the direction Of tho wind that
no person entertaius any doubt that the
southwest and southeast winds are peculiar
| y fatal to human Life in this locality There
Ia, 81 course, reason for this; and does not
our correspondents letter suggest the
rcmedy7 No such phenomena exist in the
Teche country, because tho winged scaven-
gers hre not restrained by any municipal
jurisdiction Nov suppose the strung
natural 'instin1s Of these agents were
utilized by tbs philosophical mind Of a
Sanitary Superintendent, and one portion
Of the force wns to start of in the very
teeth Of the southeast wind, aud another
in like manner against the south
wat wind, is there not reason to
hope that they would discover what
it is on those lines which, borne hisher
by the wind, is 50 fatal to health? Would
they not clear the whole regions traversed
BY these southeast and southwest winds,
and render the b1eczes now 20 destructive
as Gfc-g'ving md regcnerating as II
they had passed forever over ono eternal
park
There is deadlock betwean the Board
of Health and the Common Council on fhe
subject whether the sanita1y work por-
formed for the city is worth the cost. Can
not this unsccn,ly strife be terminated by
both parties uniting upon The employment
Of buzzarrls md c1uws, with jurisdiction
over all the streets. whether paved or not :?