New-York tribune., 1873-07-23
shows how tho records OF certain causes OF ueatns
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ot,ooerbore fatigue and Irregularities IN uet ho
duce howell complaints the REGISTRAR S,ers nm regard
compel all perfons I0 Care and food. The death rate
% % t was t6 81 per 1000 inhabitants yeaMpg M e1:
m Rn III i'm june A. per 1900 IN vienna, % 20 pcnioned
in Rome SO per 1900 In the three is corresponded
~ III 'etmaspierio conditions most nealy ooi''9P
With those in New York the past three we rio Roard I'm
Mr. Richard IL. 1horne sppealGu of The Washing
o9 Market booths ordered TO be az anu Iii f his
against the T0s %sasqe at caSt $1,000 and it de
sroyed would be ruined. he WaS wis,SS oSt ~ The
Commissioners listened TO MT moWSs Sppea nuS
asked questions aud uttered % ha,6 mo Si"iO"
their intentions regard To inc Dooths'
THE CORRECTION OF THE HOG sLAUGHTERING ABUSES
The sanitary Committee made long report respecting
the measures lately taken by the Board to compel per-
sons engaged in hogsaughering to conduct the ousi
ness in such a manner not to cause disease on July
the Committee issued circular addressed to hrms In
the hogsauehterug business asking what reasons they
coud urge against the entire suppression OF the trade
within the city limits. The reply of the firms addressed
was received July 49, The butchers answered that the
trade was legitimate one, and was therefore ehtued
to the protection OF the laws where 1t did not interfere
with the welfare Of others They had avaied themselves
OF all the improvements tending cleanliness In carry
ing on the business, and they were willing 10 auopt
whatever improvements the Board might suggest Inc
renewal Of their business would entail heavy expense
which would fall the consumer in the enhanced Vaue
Of the product The carriage OF hogs any great uahce
especially during the weather. would cause the
food to become and unfit for use There were az
least 500 firms engaged I'm the business, employing not
less than 5000 Tho carriage alone cost SiOOUCO;
Wrye value about SIS The live stock
all landed the immediate PREMISES lhGTeDy E uoiE
away with all driving through the streets Ihey nnany
suggested that permission be granted them to dispose
! of the blood aud olal on their own premises,
converting it into fertilizer without producing any
stencil therefrom regard 10 the suggestion OF the
Board that the business should be concentrated IN one
building, they would reply that the eVuo ,
be introduced into present buildings as wei as INTO
new building. The building OF an abattor s suhclGno
to accommodate the business would require eAtehsNe
grounds and large outlay OF funds, more than would DC
warranted without guarantee that after II was con-
peted the location would not be otJeceu 10 oy some u
! ture Board Of Health.
The butchers concluded their argument as follows:
That the abattoir SYSTEM as suggested by your honor
abe Board covers great many abuses connected with
our present system we freely admit; ana H. attei
fu1 consideration OF this matter, your Board decides
that tins business should concentrated we ready
and willing TO meet your requirements SO lar as es ~
HAYNES W. NJ Tlden & Co.. o. stahlnecker & son, Met
cali q Gibbs, Monroe Crane, DAVIS q Atwood' hoou q
Martin, Jas. Mcbride, and 1oOey Booth.
In reply the Sanitary Committee said that it was their
opinon that either business should be brought with
in rigid sanitary control, be excluded from the city
At present nearly every branch Of the business was
offensive The herding Of hogs in RECONSTRUCTED wooden
sheds the saughtering In imperfecty appointed build
ings and the disposition of Oa were features when
demanded radical reform. The Committee had con-
saG5Sa 1nrg Of the business within the city
limits; secondly, the regulation of the business
business in an abatoir. The first method of course
would be efectua. The second method although
opinion OF the Committee, obyiate the most objection.
the concentration Of the business in one building, was
entirely practicable, as proved by the experience OF
| other cities. Tie Board should, Whichever method was
adopted compel the discOntnuance OF the yarding OF
hogs sheds the cementng OF the floors OF the yards IN
the buildings; the thorough cleansing, whitewashng,
dsnfection Of the slaughterhouses, yards pens,
and grounds.
| THE PROGRESS AsIATIc CHOLERA IN THE WEST.
Dr. John G. Peters submitted report containing
history OF the progress Of Asatc cholera in the West
Accompanying the report we're maps of the cities OF
Nashville. Memphis, and Louisville, showing the por-
tons OF the city infested with disease, which,
usual With the disease in houses situated either
marshy grounds land reclaimed from the water.
After giving a description OF the gradual progress OF
the disease from orleans up the Mississippi Valley
Dr. Peters described the treatment and history Of the
| disease in the several cities mentioned. He said:
The Memphis physicians regarded the disease true
Asiatic cholera merely precipitated and modified by
malarlOus and diateuc influences. They urged clean
ousy and forbade the nightly assembage Of negroes.
BY these means the disease was quickly stamped out
AT Nashville the localzng causes OF cholera were
tended and apparent that importation Of the disease
looked for generally believed IN Nor are the
Nashville physicians much 10 blame for fastening their
attention almost exclusively these secondary and
locazng causes OF the disease They are 50 patent n
Nashville that they force themselves upon every ones
attention. Comparatively few deaths occurred In the
6d t Tsged 5oreSs of the city The best Tes
dence and business portion OF NashVe during the whole
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was almost perfectly safe TO live in The cholera
almost exclusively confined TO the outer limits and low
portions the city, aud carried of hundreds OF those
living near the small socalled branches. HEX
and Of water. especially the Llch Branch on one
side and Wilson's Spring Branch upon the other, along
| which, says Dr. Jones, there has been a rapid and
progressive crOwding of houses, or rather hus and
ehates either clustered together D streets and
alleys or moro frequently huddled together without
system, and crowded with careless and filthy popula
ties nor te most faTSSae field r tbe odsmen and
| an Of
If wholly impossible 10 devise any ehclent measures
| for the arrest Of communicable diseases III them.
Along the line these cholera also pre-
vailed in 1866 which time the disease from the
| North The present year the cholera prevailed some
tune before Its presence discovered. The list of
| deaths not published until June 9, when they
amounted 10 81 The disease had in the meanitime been
progressing unheeded among the careless population
NOtwthstanding the assurances OF the city authorities
that the disease was only mlld type OF cholera, an
enormous panic and stampede OF the citizens at once
TO other portions of the country.
AT Edgeheld just across the Cumberland River, and
only 10 20 deaths 1t lies on low sandy plain, is
supplied with good cstern water, and has broad we'll
that a public thanksgiving was held for being only
partially visited by the epidemic" Similar are
Altoona for more than month At Gallaon, Woodburn,
and Bowling Green, the trSt cases were all imported
some Of the Nashville fugtves died In the hotels, fol
lowed 10y deaths among the inmates OF another
eral scattering distant places gem
eral At Bowling Green well as in MurfreesbOro
aud Nashville the same avoidance by the disease OF the
high grounds nOtceabe.7 Louisville, very clean
city built sandy gravely soil with broad and well
paved streets widely separated houses, clean courts,
alleys yards land stables, for the th time escaped chol
era This city had few OF cholera ia 1882
1885, 1s4s ls49 1854 1885, 1873 The disease has been
repeatedly landed there steamboats, and railroads
but never taken root although the city lies IN the
direct line OF .travel both by and ran between
Nashville and Cincinnati.
Cincinnati is clean Louisville foul as
Nashville. ChOerathas pursued an indetermnate course
respecting this city AS back May "a the disease
was brought TO the city by steamboat from New |
Orleans; there being the boat which also
carried other passengers There another infected
vessel from Memphis. The disease pursued slow but |
relentless course Cincinnati creeping from person
20 person. As the drinking water is good gen |