New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-20

opposite the Red Store shows that the river
is making slow, though constant inroads
under the leyee opposite the French market.
Every few days a new fssure is discovered
by observing the moisture of the sand in
the cracks that open all along the break.
Yesterday persons were engaged in boring
all along the sinking space, with view to
ascertain in what direction the river is wash
ing out the quicksands, in order to apply
the remedy where needed. 1t is thought
that the new market is in danger.
BOARD OF HEALTH.-At a meeting of the
Board of Health Friday night, reports of
the sanitary inspectors for the month of
July were considered. The recommends
tions in the reports were generally adopted.
A resolution predicated ON the sugges-
tons of DR.. Albers was adopted, that all
the streets and cutters Of the city should
be thoroughly washed in the night time
once in twenty-four hours, and an address
to the City Council was adopted accord
ingly.
Or motion of Mr.. Pierce, seconded by
DR.. Avila, resolution was adopted recon-
mending and urging the Board of Metro
pOlitan Police to promote to the rank of
corporals all the men belonging to the
police force who have been assigned to
duty in connection with the Board of
Health, and that they be continued on duty
in that connection.
The communication of Doctor Ames, set
ting forth that the streets and drains in the
Fifth District are greatly clogged by the
growth of grass and weeds, preventing
proper drainage of that district, was referred
to Mr. Cockrem, the Commissioner of I'm
provements.
The communication of Z. j. FOrstall, com
planning of injury done his premises, No. ;26S
Royal street, by the vault ON the adjoining
property, belonging to the Mineral Water
Factory being considered, the board in
structed the president to return the same,
with the endorsement that there was no
power in the Board of Health to give him
the relief he asks.
A petition was received from sundry citi-
zens asking the board to rescind its action
heretofore taken respecting the curing of
green hides in the central portion of the
city, declaring the same a nuisance, and
particularly forbidding the same by Messrs.
B. L. Mann & Co., Witherell & Co. and
Hay & Mehle. After considerable debate
on this subject, the board, by unanimous
vote, resolved to adhere to its former action.
A resolution was adopted asking the
Board of Metropolitan Police for an addi-
tional policeman to be assigned to the Board
of Health
1t is rule of the board that the Sanitary
Inspector of the Second District shall every
day ascertain from the official records if
any deaths have occurred in the city from
fever or contagion, and report thereon daily.
In stating this rule, the president reported
that there was not solitary death from
fever on Thursday last.
A special report from DIR. j. S. Clark,
Sanitary Inspector of the First District, re-
commencing the abatement of sundry nui-
sances, was received, and the attachments
ordered. Z.
Informally, the subject of disinfecting the
streets and cutters with carbolic acid was
there was no necessity for it as long as the
daily rains continued, which prevented
stagnat1on, and the generation OF noxious
gases and odors. AS soon as the weather
becomes dry, it is understood this method
of disinfection will be Immediately put into
practice.
The theory OF Dr. Won Pettenkofer, OF
Munich, now SO well approved and vindl-
Gated by experience in that place, that ty-
phoid fevers are developed only, as the
waters sink below given distance from
the surface of the ground, has led the board
to institute a series of examinations on the
subject These examinations reveal the
fact that the rise or fall of the water In the
river has not this season perceptibly affected
the amount of water in the soil. The river
is now about twelve feet below high water
mark, but in the Fifth District of the city
lAlgiers), the water in the wells, on the first
instant, stood at an average OF two feet i've
inches below the surface. In the Sixth Dis
trlct the water in the wells stood at an
average of about two feet three inches. The
drainage by the river is not perceptible,
and cor seauently the impurities communi-
Gated to the water in the soil by sinks and
vaults and other causes are not destroyed
by the river drainage, as is generally sup
posed.
FIRES AND ALARMs.-A few minutes be-
fore one o'clock yesterday morning fire was
d,sooxoroJ -, +ba harroom &c ToLo c.1.