The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-05-09
new YORK'S NUEANCES.
Peetilence and Death Over
spreading the City.
A LETTER FROM THOMAS B. MUSGRAVE
Recorder Hackett's Significant Warning
to the Grand Jury.

The following letter, which speaks for itself, haR
been forwarded TO this oshce by Mr. Thomas d. Nus
grave, the chairman OF the Citizens Committee, who
recently made the report upon tho puisances OF The
cast und west sides
TO EpIroa or rnE fiERALn:-
oiauroas y heath and destructive Of they
Aoa these % IS @ ss.s
"fa, es"es ana dead a"mA We have two sueh
Lorty,isth street East River, with capacity AZ
in the midst Of the densy peopled Of the city;
on Inc @s' Ss ns o,a steamship hulk
vito capacity OF about 900 For the pur
are quite IS rood rs though fresh and sweet Tho
other Ike Sen ~ Mhsn aS s
y sh.n ploaae,ng po',s1es atmosphere before
s s,sa pe Mutt 70 escape into the a.moaphsre
opsnin Under the wharf under the wato through
sns t s an g "a every
the Atmosphere aud entss our doors and windows and
Ss puzzle Instead oi flowing s sawa i ss
aa HOUSES ioass ise lrsas rho traps "a our waste
pss i water closets ana wan basin, nnii1 M p.ons
called sewer bat 70 often has its origin aud its
y rafferty, I ",an.s. aud tho Algonquin and
q. IT, rsats,nE stasls1nsnts Many q taess
ylns them into th sewers or rivers but tie ssmpt
tian money oy enectuaiIy these
paess !, y e.1s.t and rea and daeut q aetse.ion
injurious public hoalth removed beyond the
i, Street at River and nnnn ~ ,ae r r"os ..
ninth street North River pretend to have apparatus
for the OF .he vnpor ut" liquid ceiors u
1r lhe coils q pipe are AZ inch and aaar.er when
half extensive enough 10 condense eHectualy. s. Tno
tho eo should be ed
into the aud into tho rises up
now rnkY DECEIVE rnx AUTHORITIES
Again, when these establishments dump batch Of
material from of their tanks If
tia. ii i lev moments iasoraos wind viii spread
a"Cs to mae srn,ssrs as though Dssieey and
when prsssel Win work the tsmp..t,on TO dump hs
they do in immensc quantities make The iertlizers
this have suspicion that they In
spotted ~ The Grand nr, @ the iet ioard they set
Is Very %a myself s al
s .nu. the hs
tank. 70 increase me now OF water IL their soa.
ron '' about .isir promises, ana then scatter
hour would competed, their embellishments any
through, and bear witness TINT they made
!. mus, come from me o.s, aarasr yet a. soon =. ts
doors the valves and perfect torrent Of stencil would
y tie hosi,a Board Of Some Of the stencil tse
,grss yn re ssr' ,ver q, me tot o. ~ s.
got IN tnis Tor inspoelion The pipes on
1"a 6s as 40 Of stencil ia. wa. aud
sIocans a. distance even d 900 lee, Mess last no.
WINDOWS the Algonquin all hnis we'll
nres very low, aud veryhing 1t had
the Of having been dsiaected Tor the occa
another place Wy the refuse Of the fat rendering
tent Of many tons had been pu' INTO boat aud
pat another the boat, there portions Of tie
boat were closed ,git ana row,er .prinkd
q leat, arrived saw the men sprinkle - myssi
brought from tho b. rail and that
.s0 s ~ and sann no Ss s@s bones ss thu
business u this place, and said nothing about
refuse from tho i@eolas place. .ha, rishs
Their noses ~ Tue Doa. ~, ho vsn,e 70 sn. ~" 'ny
mentng In she'd near by until they wsrs rotten Il
they closea the moment t,e inspectors ~
III doom sna @ n hsye sMoca Tue n Which
fa Of deeayns horns This l. bushes. ,ha. a"er no
m dense s a 81. o 81 sn st m s
treated.
Hog yards with capacity TOR several thousand hogs
snch there In the vicinity Of thirty ninth foItttn
pest holes, other things.
thence y measc ~ al tina, part q .he city Mans u No
covered BY kins them when the poss T. found 70 be per-
is detrimental TO health. ana they should not os
ls as well be carried on and al q the " ~Srss
az At distance rom dense population a. here. lew
The of cattle ana hogs Mt Ccmmnnpaw IL made 'nel,
stencil injured the health Of the inhabitants 20 such
degree that that village drove them away portion ot
their business this city and tho
others IL distant away ironl
! Element.
1he death roll this city Is 1900 larger than
or III 7aUpD rigorous purhcaiion ~ the city
from al d elias. Of nai:anees above ndiea.ed ~ their
Indictment Grand Jury and their removal by tho
Board Health. would thousand lives
per year. thousand CAGES 81 sickness aud
loss OF heath. ~ ~ well Ano~n the medical faculty In
city that people sufsr shttuy from sort 81
malaria physical yisor, which iunuccs tho
large qunino The only possible cure
IS The this malaria w.t. tue air.
poisoning that permitted both tho
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