The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-04
SANITARY IsspEoroR's OFFICE. THIRD DISTRICT,
New Orleans, June 26, 1871.
To the Honorable President and Members Of she
Board of Health:

To the Honorable Presidsnt ana members OF she
Board Of Health:
Gentlemen 80 In compliance with your rogue ct
for Information regarding the Smsll-Pox Hos.
pital. known as Hayes House Of Health, | hsve
the honor to submit this summary report: Tue
Small. Pox Hospital is situa cd in the Third Dis
trict, on Elysian Fields, between Josephine and
Celestine streets, and occupies full square.
The buildings used as wards for the tr. atment
OF smallpox patients are two in number, of
modern structure, small, low, badly ventilated,
with very filthy walls, which have not been white
washed for many months. The bedding floor,
etc. are filthy in fact, such an extent that the
dissgreeable odor coming from them is simply
INDISPENSABLE. Each ward contains twenty. eight
beds, fourteen beds being placed In row On
each side, and l have been informed by DR..
De Roaldes, the experimenting physician, who
has been kind enough to accompany me. that
sometimes an additional row of beds would be
placed in the centre Of the ward, thus allowing a
space OF about two or three feet to each patient.
The whites and blacks are most OF the time in the
same ward, although at present find them sep
arated.
Each ward comprises one OF the small build
ings and are only provided with one Fireplace
each. Of email capacity aud utterly incapable of
giving sufficient caloriC.
The buildings are kept in q very bad sanitary
condition and look more like pest-house
THAN HOSPITAL.
The water supply ia scsnty, the food plain.
There 10 another Email building devoted to
private patients, but am unable to report its
sanitary condition, as was refused admittsnce.
From the LIST Of January, 1877, to the 21st of
June. 1877. inclusive, 33l patieuts were admitted
to the hospital. OF this number eli we're color
ed 100 whites; 81 females, 1876 males and 45
children. of which 81 have died.
Respectfully submitted,
HENRY BEzOU, M. D.,
Sanitary Inspector Third District.
Administrator McUaffreys attention
HAS BEEN ATTRACTED
to the operations OF the Mobile railroad on
Elyaian Fields street, and claims that the compa-
ny in relaying their tracks on that street are not
only monOpolzing the neutral ground. but are
destroying 1t for any other purpose, iniuring the
trees, and beyond Claiborne street have dug up the
earth between the two tracks (the Mobile track
and the Pontch srtrain track 80 as to compel Inc
city to construct bridges over the ditch costing
about $125, whereas the ordinary bridges cost
only t24. Mr.. McCaffrey has expostulsted against
the proceedings OF the railroad company, and
will doubtless take the necessary steps to apply
a remedy to the matter.
PERSONAL.
Administrator Browns absence from The Coun-
Gil yesterday was due to fall In jumping out of
q car, by which one OF his hands was painfully
though not seriously injured.
Mayer Pilstury and his family viii leave the
city on Thursday for the Waukesha, Wisconsin,
Springs. The Mayors absence is necessitsted
by ill health in his family. During his absence,
Col. Denis, Administrator Of Finance, will, 10
accordance with the provisions Of the city char
ter, be the acting Mayor.
Nothing definite has been arrived at concern
ing the location Of the
LEE MONUMENT.
With some Of the Admipistr tors the project of
erecting It in 1ivoli Circle does not meet with
much favor, Canal street, at its intersection with
Rampant or Basin, being preferred. 1t is claimed
that Canal street is the most freguented street in
the city, and therefore the most appropriate site
for the statue of the great man.
80 far as the Interference of the city cars are
concerned since the monument s to be fifty four
feet high, and will cost at any rate from thirty to
fifty Thousand dollars, it is thought that there
can be no reason why the base should not be
arched to permit the passage of the under it.
ANOTHER PROPOSITION
is TO erect the monument in Lafayette Square in
the place OF the Franklin statue, which could be
placed in one of the angles OF the square, to await
the erectlo OF other statues in the other three
corners. This idea, it would seem, is not at all
to be scoffsd at, and 1t has many earnest advo-
Gates.