The New York herald., 1876-07-16

sisted SIMPLY in placing furnace few feet up in the
big chimney, through which the gus passed aud It's
OBNOXIOUS clemens consumed IL proved quite elh.
cacous. At present the stencil It's worst aud the
hganh oi the eulIrc community IS endangered he
bad friends hvns even 50 far as Lexington avenue
who constantly complained Of II,
similar inquiries were made all that part Of the
city, and along bird avenue down lar as Thirty
eighth street, and elected similar complaints. All abon
nate the scourge but seem quite dc PAIR OF rddins
themselves OF u. The Board OF Health, they said had
repeatedly i1nored their requests and they have no
other means oil redress
HAS BEEN DONE.
visit to the rendering establishments themselves
ala not al all seem to improve the opinion before
pressed. There are two principal works OF this kind,
out ns neither OF them was boiling lat II i'm.
possible 10 Judge OF the real extent OF the nuisance.
Messrs Rafferty, K Williams are The owners OF a iat
rendering establishment upon Forty fourth street and
the river They have also been engaged IN manuiac-
turing fertilizer IRON bones though they are ng
nothing In this line ut present. This latter is
OF the greatest sources OF foul gas and unbcarabc
stencil The bone boiling usually done IN tho
night, and he fat boiling In the day time prime paIy
The propnelors disinicctans in Their works. but
their establishment has been regarded by the neigh
borhood as one OF the principal sources OF pestcnce.
They have just completed a large condenser and
furnace for destroying the gas though the arrange
msn has not yet been tested 1t Will doubtless prove
beneficial to a certain extent at least OF the eslab
lIshment OF Mcssrs schwarzschild Sulzbcrgcr upon
have Tor a time used furnace for the consumption
of gas, though many OF the neighboring inhabitants
say that occasionally this preventive is not used
The objections urged against the manure yard be.
tween Forty sixth aud Forty seventh com.
plctcly sustained by personal visit TO the prem
huge pile had collected which was constantly beng
increased. while not ship loading in the ri:cr.
This nuisance Is one that could easily be abatcd by
compelling the managers load the ships col
iected. AS regards the petroleum works the oppo-
site side OF the river Il is ndisputaby OF the great
est sources OF the evil Some three months since
arIcc appeared IN the HERALD showing tho extent OF
TINS nuisance but as yet no measures OF relief have
been taken. IT, perhaps belongs most properly to tho
jurisdiction OF tho Queens County Board OF Hcilth.
certainly hing ought to no done TO abate these
Jcopard;zng the health OF large body OF people, whose
previous protests have accomplished nothing.
WHAT THE PHYSICIANS SAY.
The HERALD reporter called upon Dr. Daniel Lewis,
No 2O1 East Forty h street. Tor the purpose OF OBJ
tanning his opinion regarding the effects OF tins horrible
eliuva upon the pubic health IN that region Outside
OF his private practice he mas been visiting physician
tor dispensary and has had occasion 20 visit irc-
qucnty the poor tenement houses aong FIRST avenue,
IN close proximity TO the slaughter houses aud boiling
works The Doctor SAID he frequently had The benefit
oil these odorous vapors and could testify as to their
onensivcness. or all the congresated pests he con-
sdered the manure yards deserved precedence.
He at one timc had four or five patients
IN house For,y-scventh street. near
First avenue, dangerously sick with typhoid fever,
which hc considered was directly caused by tho
cnluvia from tho manure yards He thought tho
management OF these yards was strongly to bo
dcnned. inasmuch was so easy to ship the matter
instead of leaving to collect IN such vast quantities.
His immediate ncl ghborhood, he said, was healthy
condition most other parts OF tho city, but he did
not include the district lying along the river and First
avenue He had many thcrc IN wnich tho lack OF
pure air was mancsty primitive cause OF disease.
Whcn the wind blows strongly from the east those
pcoi 10 get conglomeratlon OF stcncbes from
both SIDES OF the river which is strongly
provocative OF typhoid fever, and among children
OF the summer complaints aud cholera infantum.
Among other conir butve of sickness there Dr.
Lewis mentioned the Improperly cleaned streets and
the personal unccanllness existing among tenement
dwecrs. little less aversion to cold water would be
highly beneficial 10 the health OF many OF these people.
ono thing nc would say Tor them, they took their
children into the streets considerably, though this
likely occasioned by their nsucrabc quar- al homo.
Dr. Charles Mine. oil No 2l0 East Forty sixth street,
said d:--"Iherc is scarcely evening passes but
to shut the windows of house to AVOID these
dssgrecabe odors. Something ought to bc done abou
IL, Tor everybody Is complaining. | havo no d0ubi
these unhealthy vapOrs occasioning considerable
sickness among children III tns neighborhoO1 They
have much to do with tho propagation of summer
diseases where people in tcfonent houses are com.
pclled TO close their windows, aud where in the best
OF times the is scarcely III to breathe
district the slaughter houses well conducted
thev might be. The vapors from the petroleum factory
at GrcenpOnt form OF the most disagrceablc elc
ments The com binaton OF all these evils Is nauseat
ing; and though will not say that disease Is increased
thereby among adults in any pcrccptibc degree, yet t
must leave its effects upon tho population"
Tho statement made by both OF thcsc phys In
regard to tho hlthncss the streets can DO fully cor
roborated by the writer, who himself at
cra places the carcasses OF animals which had been
dead for days rotting in the streets.