The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-05-07
MOLINE.
%he Health Eoaro, "

Health boards are a good institution;
Moline believes in good institutions, SO it |
has health board. The osteusible objects |
of health board are to care for the pub
lie hygiene" The practical objects are two
dollars day.
Now,when member of the health board.
in fact the father thereof, amputates the
leg of tramp, which had been mangled
by railway train, and the same leg is
found floating around in the waters of the
slough known as Sylvan
water "-"public hygiene" will scream With
alarm, and the innocent people of Rock
Island, who draw their water supply large
~ fEcE! Sylvan water" will possibly grow
somewhat Baaseate3 at the suggestion.
The mangled leg has maoeIated AROUND iq
the slough some three weeks, and water
which has circulated through it for that
length Of time, and then drawn off and
used for domestic purposes, cannot be said
| to be yery conducive to the public by
glene," The same leg, tangled and torn"
was humping up against the fish market,
at the foot of Lynde street last Thursday
evening, while the amputating member of
the health board was endeavoring to get an
ordinance passed prohibiting funerals 10
lest same of the dear people might con-
tract disease thereby, and die prema-
ture!y without permit, to tbo great injury
OF the vital statistics" Of the UniteG
States of Moline.
A. young man, my informant, reported
1 kn Hr g Al,
had performed the amputatjon, that the
leg was down at the Ash market" and
the conservator OF the public hygiene"
and recorder of the vital statistics" by
genlcaiiy told the young man to push at
further out!' The next morning it had
got down as FAR as the bridge (about one
block when it was noticed by the guard,
MIR. Gamble, resting and roosting On the
limb OF tree. He promptly notified the
police to remove il, An officer was sent at
ter it; lit seems to me be should have gone
toward the other horn of the dilemma,)
before, however, the offensive
leg was secured it foated away,
toward the government dam and the
guard says is soaking in Sylvan water to
this hour, now nearly two weeks. Now
the state law provides penalty and pun
ishment for depositing such material in
streams from which cities draw their
water supply, and it will be in order fer
the Rock Island authorities to come down
on the hygenic member Of the health
: board, like wolf on the fold, and protect
their people from the necessity of quench-
ing their burning thirst with solutions of
mangIed human flesh. But come to think
of 1t that Law has never been approved by
the Board of Health Of the United States
of Moline so it is imperative and with
out effect.
There is one consolation, however, most
of the Moline people when in Rock Island
don't drink water, so while the typhoid
fever RACES 10 Rock Island, Moline -four
ishes like green bay tree and her vital
statistics" are getting better every hour
under the consideraie wa tchfuIness Of the
health board.
| The only reason why the leg was not
buried is supposed to be thst tho debts
have grown so deep on the cemetery that
they could not get through to find one
eight o. grave for the amputative mem
Der OF poor tramp.
i Why, Mr.. Christopher Topper shows
more culture and civilization, and knowl-
edge OF the public hygiene" by giving
every dog be kills decent hole in the
ground Now the first warm day that
comes will bring out the Health Board"
in six seated baronche They will smoke
good cigars for the hygenic protection of
their public health. They will be driven
through the principal streets of the city
but never in the direction of that maugled
leg. The people who like that kind of
thing and those who don't will pay them
each two dollars for their ride, the CARR
age bill also, and the whole for the sake of
the turtherance Of the public hygiene"(?)
Pleas attribute this article to him who
writes and look over the little text. FIRST
pluck the beam out of thine own eye" etc.