The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-05-04
FILTHY STREETS.
Disgraceful Condition Of the East
Side Thoroughfares.
WHY ARE THEY NEGLECTED.?
Interesting Facts for the Street Cleaning
Department.

The subject OF the llthy streets OF this CITY has
already beou fully ventilated In the columns OF the
HERALD and the article In Yesterdays issue drew the
attention OF citizens to The dangers OF disease aud
epidemic which may arise from The pestilenial doors
with which New York Is afflicted upon the sudden ad
vent OF the very warm weather. II is feared that
coming summer Will he extremely hot one,
though last season being very COOL Tor in
Now York scarcely any two seasons or sue
cessive years are alike IN Temperatures. II 10
it is generally thought that not only the Board OF
Health but also tho street Cleaning Bureau should
make special exsrtions TO keep the clean. BY IN
curry az the latter il ascertained yester lay
that the socalied "secon block system Tor clean-
Ing the streets had Tuesday last bcen adopted tor
the entire oily with the exclusion OF broadway, Filth
avenue, Fulton and low other which cleaned
at night by machinery, and the assurance was given
that the city never was in cleaner condition than
now. An investigation OF the SIDE however, con-
WINGED the writer that II the city cleaner
must always nave been tolerably dirty.
THE EAST DISTRICT
II any reader Of The HERALD Is curious to learn
how dirty the city is kept by tho authorities lot him
take walk thorugh the great east side dis
irict Let him rambe through Stanton street and OBJ
serve on each side OF tho street the cutters full Of
slagnant pools ana heaps OF refuse. The stagnant
pools exude foul stencil made additionally potent by
the putrefaction of the refuse matter thrown into
them by the Inhabitants under the very noses
Of The "best police in tho world" Let
MIN observe the little mounds OF garbage
cast everywhere upon the street, and him not fail
10 observe that much OF this nth evidence OF
having been there for some time past Then let h
stray into Chryse street, for Instance, there Try
TO separate the manifold perfumes which have been
collected by tho kind PERMISSION of the Bureau OF
GsrA
the eyo almost every chokes up the gutters It
ills the ruts Of tho miserable broken pavement: II
creates ridges OF dirt ana encumbors the sidewalks
Avenue IS one oil The favored avenues OF tho Street
Cleaning Department. II IS one Of the avenues in
whicn the department apparently cndeavors 10 de-
monstrate with now much dirt Il Is able 10 ornament
pubic thoroughiare Pit street is another delight
ful Eden OF perfume created by tho department
MAKING CHICKEN YARDS or STREETS
One OF the beauties about somo OF the east side
that Board Of Health ana the police aro
slowly but gradually converting them into Gu cken
yards. There has boon until to-day shadowy and
vague notion that live poultry was not allowed to
kept In tho oy, and more especially that the public
thoroughfares were not intended Tor poultry yards
TINS, ~ appears Is all mistake, Tor IN the iocaty
dica,ed chckens may be seen running about streets
and pickin ap stray ediDcs by me hundred.
~ IS striking comment upon the care oil tho Police
ina, close by Police He conaton oltn,nss
IS tolerated winch Is regarded as nothing more lees
Than disgraceiuL The condition OF Mott street, only
nall block below the Police HeAdquarte and cioso
by The rear OF ST. Patricks Cathedral really shock
Ing IN pont Of nth yesterday, and has
past dead dog lay IN tne middle oi the street.
whose carcass had evidently already undergone par
tia process OF pulreacton Heaps oil refuse gar
bage were s,rewn ABOUT every where, tho strest
looked as though no sweeper had touched II for the
last month or Two Even in tue very block 10 which
the entrance 70 the Health Department 10 situated
was iar from clean.
OTHER EAST sIDK PEavUnga
Indeed, the cAst side. more especially the
mont house DISTRICT is favored with such mag
cent variety OF odors 10 leave Coeridges
ninety counted IN the Rnne lar behind Iako Tor
an example Tue block oil Third street. between avenues
A and b, and what could be more odiousy fiihy 7
Arc thcrc aot here The seeds Of disease and
OF epdsincf Or take Second street, between aven
Aand u. with its steady anu almost unbrokcn line OF
stAenAnt pools aud we'll planted garosge beds Why
should not "a specimen IRON some oi these blocks 30
sent 10 tho Paris Exhibition 10 show the world what
New YORK can DO IN tho way OF street oletninl :
mere are some romantic spots IN ,hs east aldo ois-
trict which by way ol curiosity are worthy OF
ton. Rotten sardnos form quite "A little con
IN tho awful onaiv OF tho metropolis Essex STR. Of
Is partially clean partially dirty aud partially thy
tween Hester and Division Streets The uptown por-
t'ons Of the east s'do arc somewhat better The
lover, " ~ truc but not much alter ali. Tho hltby
spots arc iurtner apr, but they are there still.
PROTECTING rnK PUBLIC HEALTH
| DIR. yancway, Oi the Board al HuaiIn, yesterday
stated tnat III order ~ prevent the ou gases IRON
Gaping IRON the sewers tue Department oil PaOc
works would DO requested, the warm
weather begins, 10 keep The cuiveris uI
the cutters BY letting tue hydrants run freely upon
them. In he tenement house districts Dr. Janeway
mtled that there was much re IN the gutcr
aering this cleansing process all sne
He believed thai speei precautions should DC iakoD
protect the pubc health, a. the damp warm weather
was favorable tho process OF an maj
and vegetable mattcr. lie prom ised that special
teuemcnt house visitationz would DO mado tho
opening OF Tue warm season. He explained no h,gh
aeath rate oil New YorE Ia the sumner by the large
number OF crowded, badly ventilated and sluny tene-
mens, which gave rise especially 10 dlarrD9s con
Sumption, phcumoaia, broncbitis, measles, scarlet
lever, hopping cough ana diph heria
glance NJ tue nsuros collected 0y The Bureau OF
Vital STATISTICS shows mo prcpoudor oil deaths
the crowded tenement house wards Tho Fourteenth
Ward, lor Instance, Is one eminentiy OF teucm.Bs,
and 10 tue week ending Aprn 20, out o. PREPARATION
Ui 2oUUJ, there were nine deaths In Tho Filiesnl Ia
ware, IN winch there are but very lew tenem.u and
wnicn mas about The same population ia 500, III.
greatly multiplied.
IL 10 an i1tefes'i0g question whether the tenemcn
house systoJn .! Nov YORK Will ~ not abolished, ~
rast be shaken by rapid ny the esta U,sh-
neht ol cusap homes IN the upper para OF the sssnd
InAt -uuh cnangc would greatly improve the sanl-
tsfy condition OF New York Us not doubted by TOO
lnu nulIIA DrII L.