Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-06
NASTY NEW ORLEANS.

| It's Filthiness a Standing Inritatio, to yell
lo,v Fever and AtI Other MalayiaE Dis
eases.
committee appointed by the mayor of
New Orleans to investigate as to the sanitary
condition of the city has submitted report
which says:
The committee appointed to examine into
a charge made in the New Orleans Times, in
an editorial on the 18th of September, that
1000 loads of kitchen garbage, which had
been hauled to the dumping grounds by the
city carts, had been brought back by the
contractors and used to fill the streets in the
front part of the city, examined several Wit
nesses, and, to confirm their statements, pro-
ceeded to the dump on Washington, below
Chestnut street, where they found three acres
in extent by four feet Deep mass of rotten
ness and decay-the accumulation of years of
kitchen garbage, dead animals, and other
foul substance. Hogs to the number of two
hundred were tearing away the surface and
feeding and fattening on the impurities be-
low, while the stencil was of the most disa-
greeable kind, poisoning the milk of the
diaries in the vicinity, and causing sickness
IN every house N view.
Your committee visited severalEho were
in their beds, too sick to be about, and from
them learned that for weeks in the spring
and early summer large numbers of carts
were kept busy hauling from tue dump to-
ward the city, but to what location they did
not know. The dump shows that large
quantity of deposit has been carted away,
but to where your committee could not
learn, except the portion mentioned in the
evidence. They, however, came across sew
eral permits issued from the department of
Improvements, but they fell short of the
amount charged.
The evidence given and the appearance of
the dump is proof sufficient that four thou
sand loads, within the year. have been
carted away to fill private squares and raise
the public roads between the liver and the
dumps. Your committee examined many
witnesses as to the condition of the unpaved
streets in the rear, and the testimony was OF
one character: That kitchen garbage and
the ofal from the markets and other foul
substances were first spread on the road
then layer of street dirt, or probably the
stuff from the dump, completed their work.
In one instance animals we're ordered buried
in the road, but the contractor refused the
work, and hauled them to the dump fo1
burial. The council passed an ordinance
| ooAOCo
at the Lee monument, but the ordinance
was abused, for the foulest stencil imagina-
BILE greeted the passers- by. Your committee
examined into this, and the testimony OF
the sanitary inspectors of First district was
that several loads of manure from stables
was put on to fill up. To give the language
of the witness-the stencil was foul when he
carried it off, and still more so when he un-
loaded it at the monument Your commit
tee went to the nuisance wharf at the foot Of
Robin street, and found the stencil 1ntoler-
| cradle for squares around.
The night soil is passed in barrels in mid
day through funnel sheet iron tube into a
barge below, where the matter is carried in
to the middle of the river, and let of into
the stream. The flat boat at the sugar re-
fnery, Third district, used as nuisance
boat, is aground, and for while the night
soil was dumped over the levee on the bat
ture, with only shallow covering of water
| to hide the nuisance from view; but the at
| tention of the board of health was called to
the matter and the evil was stopped, so that
now only one nuisance boat is used when
there should be four, in city having ten
miles of frontage on the river.