The daily gazette., 1876-08-19
FIRST EDITION
BOARD OF HEALTH.

SPECIAL MEBTING-wHERE TEE IMPUR- |
ITIEs IN THE BRANDYwINE GENE
FROM. g,r51. ... 4-..,
The Board of Health heald speca
lal meetang, last evening, John w.
Hawkins in the chair, and VIM. p.
Windish acting as Secretary.
The Committee on impurities in the
Brandywine water made the following
report:
The Cammittee first visited Jessup
s. Moore's. The members of the firm
were not present. but the foreman po>
litely answered al questions, and
positively denied that any POISONOUS
matter came from the mi Is into the
Brandywine on Saturday MOI ming last
They next visited the mills ofMessr
Riddle & Co., where Mr.. Fields
admitted that the dye stuffs used at
the mills were allowed to run into
the creek, but that they contained no
poisonous matter. He also said that
no poisonous matter came from their
mills last Saturday morning.
The committee next visited the fac
tories of Messrs. Bancroft s. son, and
found out where all the poisonous
matter came from that was in the
creek On Saturday morning last. They
have reservoir at the lower end of
their mills into which the refuse from
their dye mills runs, and when it gets
full they empty it out into the creek.
We found out by conversation with
those employed in the dyeirg depart
ment, that they use three kinds of
| poisonous minerals in their coloring
matter. Our attention was next called
to the, condition of the bottom OF the
creek, which was covered & all oyer
with the poisonous refuse. We next
interviewed one Of the Messrs Ban.
croft, who admitted that the poison
GUS matter in the Brandywine last
Sunday morning came from their mills
and that they emptied their reservoir
into the creek every Saturday. night,
at II o'clock, He was anxious to
make bargain with us to let them
empty their reservoir once a week.
which we positively refused to do, as
it would poison the bo tom of the
creek, more or less all the way down
| to the Water Works. We soon left
and told him that he would hear fro m
us. soon. ,,,l.3 l....-
Your committee would max c the
following report. -l .----.,.,. , O
st The Messrs. Jessup & Moore and
4 riddle Son g. Co., we would hold fol
tfurther consideration; but for Messri
4 Bancroft we must report that the let>
ting cut of the poisonous refuse and
Idye stuffs from their reservoir into the
j Brandywine, is public nuisance and
lmust be stopped. ~ ,iN Ns
n ALBERT THATCHER. r
Do JOHN W. HAWKINS. co..
JAMES KENNEDY. j q.
i FA-r,fr ~i... COMMITTEE
Il The report was unanimously adopt
I ed, after which Mr.. Thatcher offe rec
the following resolution:
II n solped, That the report of tn
. Committee be accepted, and that tn
Board of Health, after hearing the fact
q etstated, do declare that the lettir 7 ou
9 of the poisonous refuse from the res
ervoir at the Messrs. Joseph Bancroft
e q SONS, to be q public nuisance. snt
: must be stopped, and that no more o
2 said refuse will be allowed to go int
the Brandywine creek at any tim
hereafter: and that the honorable Ma.
. or be requested to enforce this resolu
tion.
An amenQment WAS ouereu " III
clude all the manufactures in the res
olution but it did not prevail.
Mr., Thatcher said he was not salts
es fed yet, with Jessup & Moores mills
o. as he thought great quantities of dill
SO and filth escaped into the creek froi
ef the boilers in which the rags wer
boiled. This was calculated to max
} the water impure and unit to drink.
The resolution was adopted aft
ao which the Board adjourned.