The Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1870-1871, 1871-03-16

ehcy arc locateu, anu The anxiety To have
them removed beyond the city limits is
universal among all our citizens except
those who are personally interested in
their continuance
In our visits we have, however found
one that is an exception to the rule, viz:
that of Louis Stern & Bros, located on
the corner of Frenchmen street and
Marigny canal. This establishment is a
considerable distance from any thickly
settled portions Of the city, and conduct
ed on purely scientific principles; and
any dead animal or putrid meat is,
within few minutes after it reaches the
establishment, perfectly deodorized and
converted into useful articles of COM
merce.
During the visit of your committee
five dead animals were brought into the
establishment and submitted to the
peculiar chemical process adopted by
this company, and in few minutes not
a vestige Of any thing that could conta-
inmate the air remained.
Anxious to secure the benefits of this
establishment to our citizens, who have
been too long poisoned by those referred
to in the first part of this report, we
questioned Messrs Stern Brothers as to
whether some arrangement could not be
entered into with them by which all
dead animals could be taken to their
establishment by the authorities, and
found them willing to offer to receive
and dispose of such on terms which we
believe will be most welcome and salts
factory to the Legislature. These terms
your committee have embodied in the
accompanying bill.
After thorough examination Of this
establishment your committee summon
ed to appear before them DR.. Jacob
Schoem, chemist of large experience
in chemical works of this character, and
his testimony fully confirmed our OPT
Mon respecting the harmlessness Of es-
Establishments of this character, even when
located in populous neighborhoods, the
only odors perceptible outside Of the
works being those of ammonia and sui
phur both of which would be more likely
to benefit low, swampy neighborhood,
like that in which the works are located,
than to injure it, as they would tend to
the destruction of miasma SO prevalent
in such districts.
Your committee went further, and ex-
amined the workmen and workwomen
employed, of whom there are about
seventy, and their uniform reply was
that they never had enjoyed better
health than for the two or three years
they hive been SO employed
That this establishment, manufacturing
super-phosphates, bone dust, bone black
and ammonia, the most valuable class OF
fertilizers, out of articles which if left i'll
the streets and lots or yards of the city
would tend to produce disease, pestilence
and death, is one of the best evidences
lin this State of the advantages of science
and the benefit of liberal enterprise.
In some of the ordinary bone boiling
establishments Of the city, we find that
the proprietors are in the habit OF ex-
posing offal meat and the carcasses OF
dead animals in the open air for days to-
gether, to be eaten by hogs, until it be-
comes so putrid that even the hogs will
mot touch it, when it is exposed in open
, kettles and the flesh boiled from the
bones, amid the most foul and death
| dealing stencil Such places are shun-
ned by all but the poor, whom poverty
alone compels to live in the cheap tene-
ments existing in such districts, where
they become the companions of vultures
and victims of disease and premature
death.
With view to the abatement of these
nuisances, and the encouragement Of
wholesome and profitable manufactures
your committee beg leave to present
with their report the accompanying bill
with the earnest request that it receive
the prompt action of the Legislature.
THOMAS d. WORRALL,
1 Chairman.
BY permission, Mr.. Devices, of De
s Soto. introduced House bill No. 2O9, al
r not tn amend an act entitled "an act t.