Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-07-13
Board OF Health.


regular session in the Office Of the Clerk OF
Council. James Bradford was chosen
President, in the absence of Mr.. Mccall,
and Dr. J. A. Draper elected Secretary.
The subject of pig styes on Fourth
street. between Madison and Monroe, was
referred TO the Third Ward Committee
with power to act, and the filthy condl-
tion of the gutter on Bennett slfeel'anoVe
Eighth, was referred to the Sixth Naru
Committee for consideration.
Twelfth street market house having
beea reported in filthy condition the mat
ter was reierred 10 the Clerk of the Market
Cards were ordered 10 be printed con-
tanning the names Of members Of the Board
and liz Executive officers
~. r. Haddock WAS elected Executive
officer for the Western District, 10 MI
vacancy.
MThe Board then adjourned 10 meet
Saturday, Mt O'Clock, ut Eighth and
Madison streets, u view a pond OF stag
nant water in that nuighhUrhood, aiect
which they will visit Spring Alley and
consider the subject Of paving that street.
ADJOrRNED MEETING ON SATURDAY. --orR
DIRTY STREETS VIEWED AND HOG PENS
DECIDED A NUISANCE.
On Saturday afternoon last at O'Clock
an adiournrd meeting of the Board of
Health was held at Spring Alley. Presi-
dent Mccall and nineteen members of the
Board were present, and DIR. j. A. Draper
accompanied them and gave all informa-
tlon asked for. James Bradford acted as
Secretary. The Board did not rest their
case after viewing Spring Alley, but went
on the western side of the city and did u
noble work there. Their action on Satur-
day will hereafter be Of the greatest bene-
fit to the health of our city and is COM
plcte vindication of an article entitled
'' Dirt and discase,S which recently APP
peared in these columns, and which few
citizens and one or two slow and obscure
newspapers would not believe and accused
lis of scnsatonallsm in publishing it.
"Why,' said a prominent member OF the
Board to one of our reporters, ''we find
the streets to be in much tilthier condi-
tion than you represented them and the
stencil arising from hog-pcns much great
err"
And such eXclamatiOns as these we
have heard time and again. We then
INDUCED in no vague statements regard
ing the filthy condition of our city but
pointed out localities and asked the peo-
ple to 70 there and find out that we were
correct. To show beyond doubt that the
statements we then made were facts we
printed the death report for May, which
showed IS deaths for that month, an in-
crease over the past monthly reports of al
least 30. This in itself spoke volumes.
a prominent physician said on Saturday
that if the streets were allowed to remain
in the condition they are in now, and other
nuisanccs are not abatcd, within sixty days
cholera would obtain footllold here, and
he thought its ravages would he hard to
check.
After the Board had visited the following
places and taken such action as j. indl-
Gated below an adjournment was made till
this afternoon at five O'Clock, when Il
meeting will be held at Eighth and Spruce
streets, and many places ON the eastern
side of the city visited -
Hog-pen in Spring alley declared nui-
sanee and ordered to be removed, and a
request that the bed of the alley he paved
and graded was made.
Webb street ordered to be clcanscd and
pile of garbage declared a nuisance and
ordered to bO removed.
West Liberty street was visited and
Council asked to curb and gutter tho
same.
Council was also asked TO grade and
pave Nancy street.
| A stagnant pond of water at the corner
of jackson and Chestnut streets was de-
clarcd u nuisance and ordered to he
abatcd.
Similar action was taken on another
pond of filthy water at the corner OF
Second and Madison streets.
In the same neighborhOOd more abUmi.
nablr pg.pens were chcclared nuisances and
ordered to be Immediately removed.
Several more ponds Of siagnant water
were ordered to be filled up with dirt.
Shipey run, where it crosses Fifth
street was visited, and numerous hog
pens were ordered to he removed
Several lots in the vicinity of Eighth
and Madison streets, oycrlown with water
were ordered TO BE- filled up.
We have the authority of the Board fol
saying that if these nuisances are no
Immediately abated the offenders will b'
dealt with according 10 law, and We hcliev,
its members mean what they say.
ANOTHER ADJorRNEn MEETING or TN
BOARD OF nEALTn-DRcIsIvE ACfIoi
TAKEN.
The Board of Health Monday Afternoon
ut five o'clock held another adiouTnet
| HNfAluEf A0NAAAhAAhA NhA' AAthN Rh LII ~
and Spruce streets. The object OF th
meeting, like the previous one, was TO tax
action on some intolcrable nuisances il
thatncighhorhoOd which had been rcpnrte,
to the Board, and we are glad to say tina
the same spirit Of determination prcvaile
as marked the members of the Board Of
Saturday. A few more visits Of our healtl
guardians TO dirty localities would sool
have the desired effect, especially wher
they take such prompt measures in hehal
of the health OF the city.
The yards and alleys Ofthe houses Nos
500, sol, sol, sos, $40 and Sl2 Spruce ST
were first visited, and, great Heaven wha
a smell. The privy wells have run over j
those yards and it is u positive fact tina
the contents Of one well (hOu,e No. Sl2,
are being drained through the celia
OF the building. The stomach uf NOR
than one of the health officers was to
weak TO stand the stencil arising frul
these nuisances. 4 house on the S. i
corner of Spruce and Taylor streets wa
next visited. The same kind of a nusanc
, was found to exist in the yard back {
| this house as had hccn found back of tn
premises just visited. The lot betwce
, the row of houses first visited and til
last named dwelling, filled with stagnar
water and filthy matter, was also viewed
On motion OF Colonel Mccullough u
the places visited were declared nuisane,
! | of the worst kind and ordered to he imml
, diatcly abated. The matter is now in Ii
hands Of the Committee from that wart
e and if the mandates of the Board arc II,
r oheved suits will soon be Instituted again
I the parties owning those properties.
n Ponds of stagnant water at the Nortl
! west and Southwest corners of Spru,
l. and Taylor streets were declared to he
nuisance, and ordered To be abated.
Several pig pens and privics un Benne
street, extending from Taylor to Mint
streets, were declared nusanccs an
i ordered to be removed.
Forest Place, situated at the foot
Decatur street, on the Brandywiuc, ",
. next sought and found, and with il Gig
" gen filthy pig-pens.
The Board was not long in dctcrninii
Il TO declare them nuisance ana OrderiI
. their immediate removal.
= A pond of staguant water on the mort
9 cast corner and one on the north-wC
u corner Of Taylor and Pine streets we
declared nuisanCes and ordered to
u filled up.
u IN alley on Lombard street, bctwc
IL Taylor and Ninth, was adiudged nj
= sance and ordered to be paved.
4 vacant lot back of this alley was al
= declared a nuisance and the same W
u ordered to he ahatcd'
Stagnant water on a lot on Ninth strc
between Poplar and Lombard, declared
nuisance and ordered to he ahated.
After declaring a pond of stagnant "
tar at Ninth and Wilson streets nuisau
o.. 10, &.