New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-02-16

consideration OF tho VOt0 CasAeR OH the Hnal
passage of House bill No. 90, for the purpose
J of correcting its title.
Carried.
Mr.. Faulkner moved that the title be
amended so as to add at the end of the
title the words "and granting State aid for
the same
Carried.
The title as amended was adopted, and
the bin was ordered to be sent to the
Senate for concurrence.
Mr.. Homestead, Of Iborville, moved that
the special order of the day be postponed
for one hour.
Carried.
Mr.. Matthews, of Tensas, moved that the
House resolve itself into committee of the
whole to consider House bill No. 20, and all
bills referred to it.
Carried.
COMMITTEE OF TIE WHOLE.
Mr. Matthews, of Tensas. III the cha;r.l
After considering House bill No. 20, an
act for the relief OF Jacob Strauss, the com
mittee rose and the Speaker resumed the
chair
The committee, through its chairman, re-
ported that the committee had considered
the bill, and recommended that its further
considera ton be indefinitely postponed.
The report of the committee was agreed
to.
The Committee on Public Health and
Quarantine through its chairman, sub
mittel tho following report. which was re-
ceived and accepted, and House bill No.
| 2O6, reported by the committee, was made
| the special order Of the day for Friday next,
| at one o'clock p. NJ. and referred to the
| committee of the whole:
! TO the Honorable Speaker and Members of the
| House OF Representatives,. III General Assem- bly,
convened:
Your Committee on Public Health and
| Quarantine, who were directed by special
vote to ascertain what bone boiling" and
other manufactures prejudicial to health.
| may exist in the city of New Orleans, and
also to inquire into the sanitary condition of
| the various street railroads and to re
port whether any legislation Is neees-
! Sary to secure the comfort and protect the
| lives ofpassen.ers, would beg leave to di-
vide their llbors and to report, first. on
some of the establishments that are preju-
dicial to health.
| The members of the committee have
! certained and visited the location oftwcnty
one of such establishments. alike preudi-
cial to health aud a disgrace to any civil
lied community, especially to one where.
| epilemcS and dangerous contagious dis
| eases are as common rs they are IN New VI
| leans Two of these establishments are
| located on Washington avenue. one OF the
| few popular drives of the city, where thou
sands of people, at suitable seasons OF the
wear, drive for the purpose OF seeking pure
| air and healthful recreation. Some OF your
| committee have had, for months past, per-
Sonal knowledge of the unpleasant cOnse-
quences Of drive IN this nelghborhood, and
| the citizens living near complain that the
stencil arising from these establishments Is
| sometimes intoerible for distance of ten
or twelve blocks from the spot where they
| are located and the anxiety to have them
! removed beyond the city limits is universal
anon. alliour citizens. except those who are
| personally interested in their continuance
| In our visits we have. however, found one
that is an exception 10 the rule. viz: that OF
Louis Stern & Bros. located on the corner
of Frenchmen street and Marigny canal.
, This establishment Is a considerable dis
tancr from any rhicklv settled portions Of
the city, and is conducted on purely stien-
tine principles: and any dead animal or
putril meat Is. within IA few minutes after
|
odorized and converted into useful articles
of commerce.
| During the visit of your committee flve
dead animals were brought into the cstab-
lShment and submitted to the peculiar
chemical process adopted by this company.
and in Il few minutes not vestigc OF any
thing that could contaminatc the air re-
manned.
Anxious to secure the benefits of this
| hi bn HAY
too long poisoned by those referred to i'll the
first part ofthis report.w questioned Messrs.
Stern Brothers as to whether some arrange
ment 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 be-
lieve will he most welcome and satisfactory
to the legislature. These terms your com
mittec have embodied in the accompanying
bill
After a thorough examination of this
establishment your committee summoned
to appear before them DR.. Jacob Schocm. a
chemist OF large experience III chemlca
works of this character. and his testimony
I:fuly confirmed orr opinion respecting the
harmlessness of establishments OF this char
actcr. even when located IN pOpulOus neigh
bOrhOods the only OdOrs pcrceptib1e out
and sulphur both of which would be more
likely to benefit low, swampy neighbor
hood like that in which the works are To-
Gated, than to iniurc it, az they would tent
to the destruction of miasma so prevalent
in such districts.
Your committee went further. and exam
med the workmen and wOrkwomen EN-
ployed of whom there are about seventy
and their uniform reply was that they never
had enjoyed better health than tor the tw'
or three wears they have been 80 employed
That this establishment, manufacture.
super phOsphates, bone dust, bone blaci
and ammonia, the most valuable class O
fertilizers. out of articles which it left i'll tn
, streets and lots or yards of the city wOul,
, tend to produce disease, pestilence ans
death is one of the best evidences in thl
State of the advantages OF science and tn
benefit of liberal enterprise
, In some of the ordinary bone boiling es
: Establishments of the city, we find that tn
proprietors are in the habit OF exposing
Offal meat and the carcasses OF dead animal
7 in the open air for days together, to be cate
by hogs, until it becomes so putrid tina
even the hogs will not touch it. when 1t l
exposed in open kettles and the flesh bolle
I from the bones. amid the most foul an
death dealing stencil. Such places ar
summed by all but the poor, whom povert
: alone compels to live in tho cheap tenement
e existing in such districts, where they bt
come the companions Of vlltures ana VIZ
Tins of disease and premature death.
With view to the abatement OF thes
c nnisances, and the encouragement OF whole
: some and profitable manufactures, YOU
! committee beg leave to present with thel
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