New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-10
THE NOISOME HARLEM FLATS.
PETITION TO THE GRAND JURY FOR
RELIEF

PHYSICIANS IN THE NEIGHBoRHoOD PROTESTING
AGAINST THE EvIL-FILIING IN WITH REFUSE
SLOTTED FOR TIKI ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF
The sTREET-C CLEANING DEPAETNHST-THE PROB
LEN HOW To DISPOSE OF GARBAGE.
No scows have been discharged at the foot
OF Ninety during the current week, and the only
work now in progress upon the Harlem Flats IL the filing
OF NIueticflst between First and serondavcs with
the placing Of extra covering OF earth over thc orig
iial deposits made between Third and Fourtsaves aud
Onc-huudred and-sxth and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The pier tie foot Of st. has been used FOR
denpsting stable manure. straw &C. until these SUD
stances should Efficiently decompossd to he seut
10 gardens but this work has also been stopped.
The petition given below presented 10 the Grand
Jury yesterday morning by DR.. Nell. number Os CUES
lions then asked him. and he assured that the
communication would he placed file, where il would
receive proper attention.
10 &e 6endcB,c,, ofne Grund Jury: Tho undersigned.
ply sicians praccin in Harlem. wish respectfully
and earnestly ca attention 70 IN intoerabic AMI
sicseniug nuisance which exists on the lowa.lds be-
Of Thirdave, and between One-hIndreland-sihtn
and One-hundred-a nd.seventhss between tourth ana
a certain extent with street sweepngs, ashes and
cremcnttious matter AMI such nondescript
Materials a. are taken ont o Of h ;SsS 81
cart The that the air Is hl-'i with the pest
entiai fumes OF tEcir decomposition and unless some
speedy action be taken to cuuueTact these banelu IN
6ucnces. sicness and death bid fair soon TO hold une
puied sway overihis unhappy region: Are''y h'"nS
persons u proximity are affected with nausea heldacie
neuralgia. aslmna, and rfnitent fevers ~ unusual
tyres ard forward with gloomy apprehension fer
the future unless this nusn IL a'a'e ami "c' ''sen
suppress this sicniag clIvEm BY covering OF good
Ncc YORK. June Z. 1873.
ThIs petition signed BY the following physicians Jas
N No N 81 e., a. JSa hry
". D., M. 2OJl Thirdayc.; e. X. Ellison. H. NO 10
East Observation-Disclosures Hugo kn.Isiier
". d., No 2as East one hundred and,1tiiist hchry
Pierce, NJ d., No az Fast One-hundred9nd-siS t"cnfh
81; A \. BrockwHy NJ D. NO 100 Last o1e-hgndI d q,
andtwcnty sew ntht; IL IL GIcsoty, M " 10. Ia
East Onc-mBircd and twenty srvcui!i 81; T. o. fdrfS
ron D. No. 21 Ess' IN M Wcsi
weniy-cighth-st: Malcolm Mclean. 81. D.. No. 3o4 East
On G9 Eat t' win
ONeaqhrr. VI D.. No I37 East Onehuplre dandseyen
Onenn IRELAND seventeenth,7t; j. II Dcmarrs' NJ De-
No. 3:}O Er~t One-hundred-a nd-twenty-fou
Deputy Inspector OBren stated to TRIBUNE reporter
vest .ray thai ~ scovs away this X.
Nearly all those AT the command Of the street, leaning
Burcan. however, loaded, aud the question as TO
he; shall be done with their contents mast b. decided
very soon " IL nearly thirty miles," said Nh ORrien,
the point thr Sound where We arc allowed
to unload these and The tugs have not sufficient
water capacy make the trip. when there II wonid
take about four hours t0 discharge, and IL Is Deccs-
-ary keep moving all the time to prevent
The striking the tugs. have no doubt that
the ultimate solution II the question viii be found n
senhng the aches but this cannot I've done MT a
cost H less an 100000 for the outh " tugs
ad scows thai he there. At present tbs ap-
preparations are barely sufficient TO enable US to keep
the streets clean, without any cost for unloading hence
the money cannot be ken from this The great
difficulty with The private families that perSisently
refuse obey orders ~ keeping tho ashes and gar
b- scraTait T. II this could be dune we shOad nave
difficulty III GlsIoeIHg al lie gatna-e III tHe
manner now practcei by the hotels AMI large eating
houses. hy s.iu. II 10 those VIII In.ui i-It II mo
rnmposL IL would then be an easy matter 10 mo place
fpa thc n- which o tlemSev make good nilis 10Y
The l4wauds: or IL not needed for This purpose favora
bile times might he selected for taking them ont beyond
ias NarrONs. There h. great deal az difficulty ia en-
for.r the rules 0f the Bureau regard to mixing ne
ashes and garbage. Itotcn happens Ht M carr man ins
clean ashes top and The pr sense Of other matter can
only dctasfe, by eniptyihe the aS-bucket; besides u
/, IT. die contents throw INTO tIe sGoeJs, ana ticn
COMPLAINT j. mad 81 The nd D.. and lhra t condition
of tie streets a. eft by the Department. some persons.
mad, thrir g.rtIige daily. AMI u ~ qn siioh
wir her 81 the most satisfactory ways vi
dis,sJsing OF 10 for the present"