The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-13
THE PUBLIC HEALTH.


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A View of the Seventh, Tenth aud Thirte enth
Wards-The Condition Of the Streets, Alleys
and Guiters-The Henlth Board Moving Mt
J.nst-A Hint TO the Cor0ners.
The Fourth and the Sixth, the Seventeenth and
the Eleventh OF the wards OF this city the HERALD
has shown up to the Health Board. These reports
gave the Board full knowledge OF where the heading
places OF disease were. The Seventh the Tenth AID
Thirteenth wards have been looked axer yesterday;
and 1t Is the hope OF majority OF the people Of New
YORK that the Health Board Will heed the suggestions
OF the HERALD and do what il TO abate the nui-
sance so Justly and so severely complained OF.
Only last Saturday il was stated in these columns
that with all his shor tcOmings. +. l. A. Bo0ie.
Street Inspector mad chloride of lime spread about,
IN order 20 neutralize the bad 0dors and masmatic
enluva from the CUTTERS. But the Health Board
have done nothing OF the kind II they were as
active in this matter as they are in many others
there would be less complaint. Look at the
SEVENTH WARD,
The Seventh ward is bounded north by Grand
street, west by Division, south by Catbarine street,
and east by the East river, and comprises many
streets entirely uninhabJable by persons accus-
toned to pure AIR. Cherry street. for instance, and
Water street, are but other names for what may be
called breeding holes OF disease and death. This is
especially the case between Market and Rutgers
streets. and again between Montgomery and Corlear
streets. The block Jackson street may be par
ticuiarly mentioned as being offensive in the most
superlatiye degree. On each side OF the street the
cutters are filled with rubbish and nth, and in the
S are 'ns enae to H
life or health OF the people living IN the neighbOr-
hood.
Going up Gouverneur and Scammell streets the
same condition OF the cutters and streets is found
Even on PIKE slip the visitor Is disguised with TIE
vntov IN yk tch a
ropes, rotten from many years. use on vessels are
here thrown about, casks and barrels are being
exposed to the rays OF the sun. and old iron ana
other rubbish 'stored" In the midst Of the street
and the slip and no one cares whether the exhala
upon the atmosphere OF the city or not East Broad
way, Henry aud Madison streets may he considered
CARDS cleanliness, may counted among those not
clean. Yet they are more so than many other
10 sns city ana less y d tm sne ees
be said that they need not be mentioned as among
tine offensive thoroughfares.
THE TENTH WARD.
The Tenth ward extends from the Bowefy to Nor
folk street and from Division to Rlvington street,
and Is also built up with tenement houses, only on
some OF the side streets old two and two and half
story dwellings remain, which have OF late been
be made OF this locality as Of the Others named but
not to the same extent Yet on Grand and Essex
streets the green grocers are taking the same nber.
ties with the street their colleagues in business In
the Eleventh and Seventeenth wards, and throw the
refuse leaves and garbage promscuously about
and they themselves seem 70 be seeclad against ali
smells On Essex street, near Rtvingt0n In fact on
mending so that the descent to the sewer should he
| even AS the cutters now are they form pools OF
sagnant water, forming scum on top neither plea
| SAINT to look at nor healthful 10 nhale.
THE THIRTEENTH WARD.
| Here we are In the ward which presents, among
| many others, the worst appearance Extending
from Norfolk street to East rlver and from Divi
sion and Grand streets to Rivington, 1t contains
population such as no other ward to the north OF It
Can a
| shipyards, and Immediately behind them Is block
after block OF tenement houses, occupied BY work
ingmen employed at these yards aud their families.
Passing through Mangln and GOerck streets in this
ward, one IL stunned by the stencil coming up from
Oal the garbage and the rotten stuff lying about In
the street, one il not astonished at the smell. ON
| Shcrn and Columbia streets Messrs. X. Hoe h Co.
nave their foundry, and 1t that the whole neigh
b0rhoOd the old bits OF IRON Old boilers and other
scraps OF machinery for a hiding place to commit
tribute TO the health OF the place. On Willett Pitt
| and Ridge streets especially between Broome and
Kivingt0n, the condition OF the streets ia no better
The cutters fearful the lanes leading from the
tenements are full Of nth and offensive muck.
In fact the may be said OF Attorney street. OF
Clinton and SUFFOLK bur, far the two latter
! concerned, with less emhpass than of Attorney.
All these streets need Looking Up and they NEED
ton that IL Is noticed that the Sanitary Snperntend-
eat Dr. Harris has at last been stirred up and that
| he tries at least to do his duty.
THE STREETS TO BIZ CLEANED.
| DR.. Harris says that the health of the city, as
time and he hopes that 1t Will remain In the same
| gratifying condition. II the streets when he has
| marked out for immediate attention shall be thor
| Ougbly cleaned and kept cleaned during the hot
term Otherwise, he says, he would not be resp0n-
sible for the prevalence OF an epidemic IN the city
| The streets he proposes to have cleaned at once
are
Maiden lane from Broadway to Pearl. Pearl to the
| Battery, and broadway up to Maiden lane; White
han, lower part OF Wall. Fulton, east OF Broadway,
to the river; Bcekman, Dover, Oliver, Norfolk, JEFF
| lengths; poftions Of Deancey Rtviugton, Sheriff,
| stanton, Wiliett, Pitt Ridge, Attorney, Suffolk,
Cnrystie and Broome; oil OF Mulberry. Mott and
| Elizabeth West Houston, from Broadway TO Mac
| dougal; Broadway. from Canal TO Houston, Howard
Spring and Prince streets ON the west side portions
| OF Canal, sullivan, Clarke and Macdougal; all the
! presented to 10 Ia very hlthy condition.
| Morris, Rector, Carlisle, Cedar Albany, Fulton,
vesey Robinson jay, Harrison Frankiin, North
| In the Third and Ftfth wards, are very Hlthy for
| some four or nve blocks from the North river.
First and e and p, Portions S,s, o.
File ventb Twelfth, Thirteenth Fifteenth, sixteenth,
seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth and
Twenty-irst streets, between First avenue ana the
East river, flied with fltny garbage Of the worst
| kind. $50
| Portions OF West sixteenth. Seventeenth. Eigh
| teenth and Twentysixth Streets in the sixteenth
| ward; portions OF Twenty seventh Twenty-efghth,
Thirty-hrst Thirty second, Thirty third. Thrtynfth
| Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eghth, Thrty-ninth and
Forty.nrst streets IN the Twentieth ward; nine n%
broadway, from Fortyeighth to Fifty-fourth street
nclusivc Thirty street. from second avenue
TO East river street between First ana
Fifty fourth street. Fiftv-seventh street, from Lex
ingion avenue to the East river; Fiftyninth street.
First 70 Third avenue nS Fon nnS
avenues and u3th street, between First ana Third
| avenues.
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