New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-03-24
PROTECTION OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

PROTECTION OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
A STRICT SUPERVISION or SEWERS TO BE ENFORCED
-TuE PLANS FOR AN ABATTOIE IN FIFIY-ElGHTH-
ST. DECREASE or MORTALITY.
The Board of Health had large amount Of
.importaut business brought before it, at the meeting
Yesterday President Charlie f. Chandler occopied the
clair and there fun attendance OF the other Nom
bers The Sanitary superintendent reported 1903 in
specons by the sanitary corps Tho disnfectnE corps
visited CT dwellings whore contagious diseases were
found and disinfected and umgated the premises In "a
cases The following is statement of contagious els
eases Tor the pas. 5wo weeks comparatively;
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DR.. Elisha Harris Register OF Vital Statistics, re-
ported 580 deaths for the past against $40 for the
week before This decrease in mortality - roteraDe
chiefly TO phthiss, smallpox. and diphiheria.
Sanitary superintendent Day lail before the Board a
report upon drainage and the bad effect OF sewer gas
upon the public health Ho a:triontss ne yiruloHt
forms dipnthera and other diseases beside the n.-
DIES Of inmates OF t6ncments 20 the escape Ot sewer
gas through traps ana dIain,plpSs dPg hoard re-
furnish the Sanitary Bureau every week, win copies OF
location Of all basins closets sinks, Ge and the mate
rial of which they ere constructed.
W f. MartiD the architect employed by the Union
Stock Yard and MARKET Company appeared before Inc
Board aud exhibited the plans for the new abattoir
which IA to be built immediately, III fliyflHnth-s Oe-
tween Eleventh and Twelfthaves. This leaves one ave-
nue. between he Roosevelt Hospital and the proposed
abattolr The plans exhibited to the Board were very
complete They show that all the blood scrap and DIAL
is to be rendered at once and not allowed 10 accumulate
gases be consumed during the process OF rem
ieriDg and the entire business is to be SO conducted
that there Will be no nuisance or dSagreeane Odois ID
the neighbOrhOod Lewis l.. Delabeld OF No. 80 Ex-
change place, appeared before the Board counsel
for the Roosevelt Hospital trustees, aud opposed the
erection of the abatoir on the location proposed Mr..
Delaeld said that the erection of abattor there
would seriously impair tne usefulness OF the hospital
He mad doubt that the Board would do everything in
their power make the aDattoir all that should be
but he did not believe That II this abattor was built the
Board could control the acton OF the Company so as TO
make the operations harmless.
Health Officer Yanderpoel said that the proposed
abattoir would not be 50 Objectionable as tue stock
YARDS, which now placed near the Roosevelt Hos
pita He added that the plans that Mr.. Martin mad
presented TO the Board were very complete and EN-
bodied all the principles and advanced systems that
had been approved by the Board OF Health and were
practically in operation in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati
and the great cities of Europe William Labor the
President OF tho Company, and expense was to be
spared make this abattoir benefit public health
and the best interests OF this city. Mr. Deldneld SAID
that he wished TO have the plans submitted TO the
Medical Board OF Roosevelt Hospital that they might
make such suggestions as their positions and scientific
requirements would enable them TO bring forward. Mr.
Delafeld urged the Board give fortnight for this
purpose, but vote being taken decided to defer
the OF the plans for the aDattoir for
week. The case will therefore be brought forward next
Tuesday and then, unless some objections
urged. the permission asked for will granted
The Union Stock Yard aud Market Company have o
large capital with which to accomplish the work.
part VI the stock has been subscribed and Is
leved that great many OF the butchers who are no
engaged In 5aughteriDg for themselves will give up
their business and take stock in the abatOr The mem
beers OF the Board believe that after this abattOr Is In
operation, much better quality OF meat will be cup
Piled TO the public. The stock will be under closer In
speouon and those animals will be condemned that are
unfit for food. Rendering establishments that are so
conducted that their operations odorless
closed and the entire business concentrated the
toir ia FIFTY eignth-st