Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-01-13

Ger the present law he says 1T Is clear that more
OF execution Is necessary in order to efectuay sup
bistIict." The commun cation was referred
Mr. Burgess moved to make the report of the spe
der for Monday. No quorum was found, and the
House adjourned to Monday
BOARD Of Health.
FINANCIAL MUDDLE-sNALL Pox-THE
CANAL-EXAMINATIoN OF DRUGGISTS
FILTHY STREET CARS.
The Board of Health met last night. Mr..
Marbury, from the finance committee, called
attention to an account of 1913 for removing the
coachman OF Hon. Fernando Wood to the small
poX hospital, burying him, and disinfecting the
stable where he died. The account had been
approved by Lieut.. N0Onan, and he thought
Mr.. Wood had paid the expense; but the &C
count had been received from the controller,
who, with the auditor, had endorsed it as cor
rect, and sent it to the Board of Health for pay
ment. Mr.. Marbury contended that this ex.
pense had been incurred by the sanitary officer
did not properly belong to them to pay. He OBJ
jected to the payment OF any account but such
as emanated from the board, and in that con-
nection said he had called at the District con-
troller's office for information as to payments
made from their appropriation without their
action, and
HAD NOT BEEN CIvILLY TREATED
by one of the Controllers subordinates going
there as he (Mr. Marbury) did in his Off cial ca
Pacity. This subordinate declined giving him
the information, on the ground that he could not
that the amount was but $50, and had been
paid by order of the Governor; that a larger
amount, properly chargeable to the Board OF
Health, had been settled by charging il to
another account and it was as little as thew
could do to pay this bill without grumbling. Mr..
Nj. contended that no money should be paid out
OF the fund belonging to the board, except
the order of the treasurer, upon a vote OF the
board. The account was recommitted to the
committee on finance.
DIR. Verdi moved that the Governor be asked
tn nGf tha Arr1i n,,I ill
how much money had been paid out of the Dis
trict treasury account OF bills Of the Board of
Health, for what purpose, and by whose orders;
carried.
WHAT THEY Do ABOUT SMALLPOX IN ICE
LAND.
DIR. Cox submitted letter from Professor
Henry, of the Smithsonian Institution, in which
he gave an extract from letter received from
DIR. +. Hjceltelin, OF Iceland, as follows I" A
severe and malignant smallpox epidemic, i'm
ported by some French trading vessels into our
island, was successfully treated and stamped
out with quarantine andsulphurOus fumigatiOns,
without affecting single Icelander."
THE CANAL NUISANCE.
DIR. Verdi read a letter from the president OF
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, In
reply to a communication from the Board of
Health requesting that company to take some
action towards remedying the canal nuisance.
He stated the action of the canal company i'm
reference to the matter and suggests that the
sewers now emptying into it be changed so as to
discharge their contents into the Potomac and
general.
SMALL Pox.
A letter was received from DIR. Patterson stat
ing that a case OF small pOx had been discovereI
at Lincoln barracks on Capitol Hill, and stating
that there was from 800 to 500 persons living
there unprotected by vaccination. DIR. Cox
moved that the physician TO the poor be directed
to vaccinate all persons living there; adopted.
Mr.. LangstOn moved that DR. Patterson be re-
quested to report to the board the number of
persons vaccinnated by him in Lincoln barracks
with virus furnished him by the board; carried.
EXAMINATION OF DRUGGISTS.
Dr. Verdi submitted letter from r. B. Fer
guson containing code of rules of the examiners
III relation to the certificates OF competency to
be given to the pharmacists OF the District of
Columbia, and requesting the printing OF several
hundred copies for use of the examiners, re-
ferred to the sanitary committee.
"THEN' STREET CARS.
DR.. Verdi submitted a resolution that the com
mlttee Oh ordinances, be instructed to prepare
an ordinance to prevent the use of filthy and
unhealthy street cars and other vehicles in the
District of Columbia. DIR. Cox stated that d
delegation of ladies had called upon him to COM
plain OF the annoyance arising from dirty straw.
Mr.. LangstOn thought they had no power to
prohibit the use OF straw. Mr.. Marbury claimed
in the cars, and its use ought to be forbidden
altogether. 1t is clearly in the province of the
Board of Health to prevent it if deemed inju-
Tious to health. The men who conduct this
business have no idea of what is cleanly and de-
cent. They have no care about cleanliness,
their only object being to drive to the end of
their route and dump the passengers out into
the mud In former times the officer of the
company compelled the busting Of the cars and
sweeping them out at the end of each trip made,
but now they have become a monopoly, and
treat the public as they see hit. The resolution
was adopted.
SMALLPOX AGAIN.
Dr. Verdi made report of the mode of con-
veying smallpox cases to the hospital. Mr..
MaTbury moved that the health officer be en-
powered TO purchase An ambulance for tine re-
moval of such cases, at a cost of Sl50. Consd-
| Coll a.
powers OF the board to incur this expense: and
the matter was referred to the health Off Ger TO
report as to the full cost OF the vehicle, horses
driver stabling. &c. Adjourned.
THE GRAND GIFT CoNCERT.-Hr Editor.
There are many individuals among the sub
scribers to your intelligence-diffusing paper
who wish very much to learn whether certain
tickets, emitting them to admission TO the grand
gift concert for the benefit of the Soldiers and
Sailors Home, &c, and to whatever gift NAV
| be awarded to its number, have drawn any of
| the nine hundred SO prizes distributed at the
drawing lately made public at Trades Union
Hall in this city. Can you inform them whether
| Bile? Yours truly. +. p. USUM.
We are continually ia receipt OF enquiries OF
this nature, and would be glad if some one in
question would rise and explain. We may ~
that the public has been humbugged 70 often y
''grand gift concerts that we have little SYM
pathy with those who are victimized.
FIRE IN MONTGOMERY CouNTy.-Mr. James
Bays, residing about four miles west Of Rock
asa asf hs ar hi.
ture. II Is supposed that the fire originated in
the Kitchen. as none was left IN the house by the
family when they started on their visit, and the
roof OF the kitchen was first discovered to be on
ire. Mr.. B. vas insured on house and furni-
ture to the amount of about three thousand dol
lars. His dwelling was one Of the best in that
section OF the country both in size and substan-
TALLY of building.
SMALL Pox.-To- day, Drs. Boarman and
Mcwilliams reported case OF small pox-
George Smith, a c0lorsd boy, in the alley be-
tween G and H and ~ and Sd streets South
washington-and officers Connell and Sullivan
attended to his removal to the smallpox hOspi.
tai. r ..-.z..-..rf b. f----. b.
BUILDING AssOCIATI0N~Theb board of direc
tors Of the Washington Cooperative Building
and Deposit Association, at their meeting held
last evening. decided to pay f2k per cent. per
annum for stock surrendered to the association,
n per recent amendments to the constitution.
THEODORE TaoMAs' Orchestra VII give two