New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-05-09
POISONOUS SMELLS.

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The SMELLS FOR SHORT TINE ONLY TO RENEW
| THEM AFTERwARD-NUisANCEs WHICH SHOULD
| BIZ SUPPRESSED ENTIRELY.
| TO the EdttOr OF The Tribune.
| SIR: There are certain classes of business
that produce odOrs injurious TO health and dcstruc
tive OF comfort that they should be permitted ID
densey populated localities. Among these Is the manu-
faetme OF fertilizers from onal bones and dead
animals. We have two such manufactures; one,
| that Of Rafferty, Williams, foot Of Forty-litbs1'
East River with capacity, they themselves state OF
5000 "a year, located right IN the midst OF the
most densey peoped part OF the city the other on the
West Side, the old stcampship hulk Algonquin, at the
foot OF Fortieth-st, North River, with capacity OF
about 5000 tons per year. For the purpose OF fertilizers
caiTion and decayng lard and allOw quite rs g0oh
though fresh and The stock OF material used
in these establishments and all others like them Is Oiten
| extremely offensive when delivered to thein'
| producing poisonous atmosphere before IL
goes into the steam tanks. While in the steam tanhs
IL the is permitted TO into the atmosphere
whether through pipes in the side of the building OF
hulk or through openings under the wharf under the
water through the chimncys it pOisOns the air IN
every direction, spreads the city like an invisible
cloud, and falls down through the atmosphere, ana
| enters Our doors and windows and vcntators. II
! it 10 permitted TO escape into the puohc
sewers instead OF flowing down into the rivers IL as
cends through the TO our houses forces Aeii
through the traps in our waste pipes and waercosets
and wash-basns until ii pOsons the atmosphere ofeycry
house connected with the sewers II IS called sewer-gas
but it often its origin aud its motive power to dle
into houses in such places rs the works OF Rafferty,
Williams, ana tie Algonquin, and the !at rendering
establishments
Many Of these factories have patent appliances Tor
destroying the poisonous odors for condensng them
into liquid and cmptyng them Into the sewers or rivers
but the temptation TO money by emitting TO use
eccually these appliances is so constant ana great ana
l. cause I'll sucd business innfious 10 nuphc Itt 20
he removed beyond the city limits 60 some place Ike
Barron Ilaud Many Of these places. ike those OF
schwnrz ,rhld Sulzbrrgcr. AT the loot OF Fory-h-
st. East River. and DOnOhue Il CO., Thirty-nnth-st,
North River pretend have apparatus FOR the CON
dcnsaoH OF the vapor into liquid before II leaves the
premises; but II - practically OF no VaH-' loI So, hon
| l. The coils Of pipe are an inch and quarter When
! they should bc at least two inches.
2 Tie coils are moi nall extensive enough 10 cohue9e
efectually. --..,.,,.
changed so a TO keep cold instead OF thai 1t oftcn
get hot lack of Change, and the poisonous yapor
gops through the coils INTO the sewers ana into the
! rivers ana rises mp into The atmosphere
Again. when these cslablisumcnts dump mass ol sew
Graz oil mU"r'al from orc Ui their steam tanks,
is not perfectly cooked emlts most LIT Pull t
that in fcw mGmcnsa favorable wind VIII speai ior
valuab 10 make fertilizers n though perfectly cooked
and when pressed with work. the Lcmptaon to dump
piuric acid oil OF vro they do in immense guam
cs make the fertilizers, Is too great for weak hu-
man nature To resist.
PREPARING THE WORKS FOR INSPECTIONS.
II The owner, Of establishments OF this class have
suspicion that they 10 be Inspected by the Grand
Jury or the Health Board they Their works in order
Immediately Tor inspection The process IS very simple
have seen il myself 1t il to open all the doors and
windows 70 got draft thr ugh their buldings tn
reduce their fires or shut OF the steam IN the TANKS, to
increase the flow Of water In their eondensing
tanks pat ont Of sight al caT1on about
their promises, and then scatter IN every direction
com cjcy free their cstbhn' nts from any BAD odor
and tacu they vaud invite the Inspectors 10 - lntoaL
/ I..tu f1tl fl.yf IN 1n
u"ner,5or vas over tncy would let on inc steam, close
their doors, open the valves ana a complete
torrent 81 . .nch would pour ont upon the city.
snw ,u Iu.oaciipu by he Health Board Of some Of
the stencil factories tlc North River NJ the foot OF
ThiFty-cgAth Th.rty-nnth aud FpEtletnss Every one
Of them was got up IN ,hi, manner for inspection Inc
pipes on the rrar of the Algonquin, that few days be-
lore were porrins torrent 0i stencil that was al-
seating and suocatug at distance even Of 300 ieet
were quiet not particle Of yapor OF smell came out
OF them; the doors and Windows OF the AiEfon,
S Sna steam EI We. shut on; Tho smokestaek ind
and every ming about had the appearance OF ha'ing
been disinfcctcd for the Ocraslon.
Al another place near b. the refuse OI the iathuct
ing cstabshmeuts OF the immense hOgyards tnere, 10
tue extent OF unny had been put mo boat ana
nA Den u' , NO r ii ti,bv and disnirciiug
powder sfinklcd all about within hsf an hour Oh the
thr men sprinkle il myself Ana another part Of the
the by rail open. and that alone was seen
by the Health Board. and they reported that the collect
ing and shipping away of the bones the business OF
this ulace, aud said nothing about the rancid soap
grease and the tons OF refuse from the ia-D0hg places
that were right under their noses 10 the boat Dat
not visible them. Also they said nothing ABOUT
tons OF horns piled mp in bins, ana fermentlng
In shed by until they were rotten. because the
she'd in which they was closed the moment the IN
sprctors came In sight and their prytng curiosity did
not head thcm TO have the doors opened and have ex
posed the bins which full OF drCaying horns Thls
Is business that under crcum, tanccs should DO per
mittrd be carried in the midst OF dense pOpula-
tn This horns while green should DO taken out OF the
Guy to be treated
THE NUISANCE or DOG YARDS.
Hog yards with a capacity OF several thousand hogs
such there in the vicinity OF Trtyninth Furteh
and Forty rst-sts, North River, OF and in them
selves peshoes, generating among other things pes
thence Of measles in all that part Of the city. Many Of
the hogs have the measles, which can only be
discovered by killing them, when the pork Is
found to be- perIncated with the Disease The
stencil OF these hog yards Is detrimental TO
health and they should be permitted IN or near the
city siaucherng could just well be carried on aud
all of the onI worked up, at distance from a dense
population here. lew years ago there were large
rendering establishments the o OF cattle and hogs
at Communpaw. They made snch stencil, aud injured
the health OF the inhabitants to such degree, that that
village drove them away portion OF The operators re-
moved Their business To this city, ana the others TOOK
their business to distant place away from any large
settlement.
The death roll in this city is 1900 larger than
sary, IN ten years 10 600 rigorous publication OF
Gated by their indictment by tine Grand Jury and their
removal by the Board Of Health, would ut once save
many thousand lives per year, and great many thOus
sand OF sickness and loss Of health. IL IS well
known To the medical faculty III this city that people
suffer irlghtuliy from sort OF malaria, depression OF
physical VigOr, which induces the OF large quantities
OF quinnc. Tho only possible is the removal OF
the OF tins malaria, wit, the air-pOsOning
nusanccs that now permitted upon both the East
and tho West Sides OF the city.
Neic- York. May s, 1873.