The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-10-26


Charles street.
THE sANITARIANs.
Regular Meeting of the Executive
Committee.
The Executive Committee New Orleans
Auxiliary Sanitary Association met In regu-
lar session last night, Acting President Fen
ner In the chair.
The committee on canals ana drainage
submitted the following report:
Your committee take pleasure In reporting
now prevailing, they have removed we
pumps and conduits which were temporarily
placed during last summer Tor 1ushlDs the
streets OF the city, rs those pumps and con-
merce that now requires the full use q the
whurves and streets Iii favorable contrast 70
tho sad experienceof this time last year. NJ,
TIC force oil street Mborers has been stendl-
Iy employed in cleaning the cutters ana
bridges In the upper portion Of the Fourth
District and In removing the pumps and ma
terials, and OF filling UP the trencnes Whlch
were vacated.
The carts have continued to haul river sand
to grade and fill up portions of Laurel, Con-
stance and adjoining streets. The drainage
canals are vol supplied with clean water
from Lake Pontchartraln.
Proper Wledgement was made OF the
receipt from John A. Glidden, Esq, OF Boston,
through Capt Woodwork, member OF the
com mittee, of board of health report OF
Boston from 1875 to 1879, inclusive, copy Of
Digest Of Statutes and ordinances relating
to the public health OF Boston, issued IL
1873, and copy OF the sanitary conultloh Oh
Boston, Issued In 1879.
Dr.. q. Devron, acting sanitary director,
offered the following report:
Mr.. President and Members Of the Executive
Comn,ittee-The report OF Mr.. Mumlord
about the Mccarthy school, | am informed,
id fully appreciated BY the directors Of the
public schools, and they are enueavorinE W
correct the defects pointed out; and they VIII
be happy to receive from this association in
formation of all cause OF complaint which
may escape their notice.
new school house Is soon TO Do built IN
stead 81 this one, and II would 90 desirable
for this association to obtain, through the
gers OF the McDonogh school fund.- the plans
and specifications Of the contemplated new
building In order that any defects 10 venttla-
ton, or III the water-clOsets, may be corrected
before final adjudication, as some OF the re-
Gently constructed schools are de1ectlve IN
one or both details.
I have inquired into the contract Of the
present contractor, Nh. Gallery, and find
that he only receives 300 month TO clean oil
the vaults Of the public schools or this city
former Board OF School Directors paid $4,000
year, or $3.50 33 u month, to DO the same work.
This was perhaps too much, Dut me present
contract pays too little Tor honest Work, I'M
less we suppose the present contractor 70 pc
80 generous as to wish to do the work Tor
nearly so per cent Of what 1t would cost him
to do the work cheap. Contracts mean work
improperly done, and drives away hohest
labor. x
nd com work or give I'D his COntfttCt,
which, by the by, Is only g verbal one. ! naVs
no doubt the school directors attention nav
ing been called to this state OF affairs they
will see that Mr.. Gallery does one or the
other.
Being aware that the Charity Hospital
privies discharged q portion, II not all their
contents, into the cutters of the city, have
ordered an officer to examine into their pres
the privies are being entirely, renovated and
| new vaults built. The Board Of Health and
this association would do well to examine the
plans and specifications Of the new
privies now being erected tea IN wort or,
administrators Of that great institution,
such improvements. II any are necessary,
which may have escaped their attention, ana
will make the improvements now being car
ried out by them benefit to the hospital and
to the vicinity.
l have had the Parish Prison examined by
our efficient officer, and find that that public
institution contains two large vaults, for
merly used as privies, but abandoned as such
since at least five or SIX years, the barrel sys,
TEN being now used. These are emptled
every day, and are therefore as safe as posi-
! Bile, considering their use by $50 inmates
| The large vaults alluded to above are within
! the Enclosure OF the prison, and are said TO
| contain nothing but water; but the vaults
| having been used for number OF years az
privies, this water, to say the least Is stag.
| nant and must be Injurious to the health 81
the inmates Of the prison and to that OF the
residents OF the vicinity. These, vaults not
out and be filled with river sand. Some
fifteen Of the so-caled English water
closets have been examined In the houses OF
some OF our most prominent citizens, ana ten
of these found defective and allowing gases
| of a poisonous nature to permeate every part
OF the dwelling. These closets being very con-
yenient, and being considered safe, are geneI-
ally situated III the very centre Of the family
dwelling, and are therefore more dangerous
| than the most neglected and imperfect or
binary vault Isolated from the main dwelling.
| The Board Of Health being now relieved 81
| the care OF quarantine, can now, with this
association, give their full attention TO local
sanitation, and are already preparing an
ordinance regulating the construction oil
privy vaults. This Is very important sub
! ject, and this association should give every
| assistance to the Board OF Health to frame
such an ordinance as would meet general ap.
| prevail and cover every source OF danger OF
| annoyance.
The sewer system, SO well advocated at the
meeting Of the Medical Association On Satur-
day night, will, no doubt be finally adopted
in this city; but until 1t is established, and
years must eiapse before it can be- we must
take necessary measures for the protection q
public health.
The report was approved and the commit
tee adjourned.
| The CHEAPEST suits at E. Bells. No - 81
| Charles street.
The CHAMPION MONITOR SToRE-Mr. J. 3
camp-map advertises this very superior stow
lii another column. Although but com parative
ly little known in this city. it Is very hiRhl
4 spoken of In the North and West. There hav