Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-19
SANITATION.
The Executive Sanitary Association
Committee in C0unciI-RepOrt or
Sanitary Sergeant How to
Use DtsInfectants.

At the usual hour yesterday afternoon the
executive committee of the auxiliary sanitary
association met at No. IL Madison street for
the transaction of regular business. The
following members were present: President
j. s. Prestidge. Secretary A. D. Langstatf,
General Cotton Greene, John L. wilkins, Or.
W. B. Winn.
The minutes of the previous meeting were
read and approved.
The questions of house to house inspection
and ordering the abatement of nuisaDces were
discussed.
The matter as to ventilating cellars under
business houses was referred to the sanitation
committee and Mr.. Jones, architect, to con-
slider and report upon the best means OF VEN
tilating cellars and private dwellings,
General Greene called attention to the
Bayou Gayoso, and stated that it was the
biggest thing the sanitary association had to
consider. Dead animals are lying In the
bayou and give forth an offensive smell.
On motion of DR.. Winn, the bayou matter
was referred to Engineer Niles Merlwether
| and the sanitation committee to investigate
| and make report to subsequent meeting
as to the best means of putting the bayou IN
| good sanitary condition.
Sanitary Sergeant Broaddus presented the
| following report, which was ordered filed:
Sanitary Sergeant's Report.
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the Auxiliary San
itary Association:
| GENTLEMEN herein transmit to your
| honorable body my report up to noon, this
eighteenth day of June, 1879: On June Is,
| 1879 began cleaning up the streets, gut
tiers and alleys, and filing up cess pools and
| holes in the streets. l have employed six
carts, with drivers, at one dollar and fifty
/ cents per day; ten men as scrapers and
shovelers at one dollar per day, and one boss
at one dollar and fifty cents per day-maklng
a total of twenty-one dollars and fifty
1,yy aala I'D f1d
and cutters as follows: Tennessee street,
from South to Trezevant; Clinton street, from
| Butler to Vance; Shelby street, from South
| to Beale; filling up very large hole on the
corner of Shelby and South streets and a
number of small ones on Shelby street with
bricks and lime; also, Clinton street, from
| Butler to Vance; Irrelevant street, from ZEN
nessee to Main, Sling up six very filthy
holes, two extending across the street, and
| repairing the street with bricks and lime;
Huling street, from Tennessee to Main
Talbot street, from Clinton to Main; Vance
street, from Clinton to Main, filing up a
large filthy hole corner Shelby and Vance
Clinton to Main; Linden street. from Clinton
to Main. One hundred and forty-6ve loads
of dirt hauled to the dump and forty siz
loads of brick, making total of one hundred
and ninety-one loads. Respectfully,
VIM. h. BPOADDUS,
Sanitary Sergeant.
After a general discussion as to sanitary
matters, the committee adjourned to meet
this afternoon at four o clock.
How to Use Zinc Iron DIsInfectant.
PropOSitiOn. -"Stench from a privy is 6
danger signal" No privy, therefore, should
ever be permitted TO give out disagreeable
odors. The causes of these unpleasant smell'
are poisonous gases; but In addition, as they
break in bubbles from the surface of the de-
composing matter, they carry into the al
minute particles of putrefactive matter an(
numerous organisms, such as bacterlas, vi
bros, etc., which may prove to be the sourc'
of ill-health equally with the noxious case
J thrown off. This disnfectant is saturated
| solution of perchloride of iron and chloride
of zinc, and is caustic. 1t must therefore b.
kept out of the way of children and carelss
or ignorant persons.
Method Of Using-Add a teacupfu! of th,
! disintectant to gallon of water IN a woodeI
or earthen utensil, and pour into the yaui
morning and evening, till all odor disap
, pears, spreading the liquid over the surfac
{ as much as practicable. A halt pint of tn
dIsinfectant, similarly diluted and used ever
six to ten days, will keep vaults of ordinar,
: size permanently deodorized. The addition
of six tablespoonful OF Calvert's No. 3 car
bollc acid at the time of the dislnfection vii
make it more permanent, and less quantltie
of the ZINC Iron" be subsequently, required
Iil-smelhne; drains, cutters, etc, can b
similarly deodorz9d with weaker solution
a teacupful to wooden bucket" full Q
water. sprinkling thoroughly and repeated.
till all cdor disappears. If a vault be no
easily and quickly deodorized, or soon be
comes again offensive. it is evidence of al
> excessive accumulation of excremental mat
tiers. 1t therefore should be emptied with
e out delay, and thereafter deodorization vii
be easily effected. The disinfeetant can b
t obtained free OF cost at the following places
i w. N. Wilkerson q Co.. 33t Main street; A
( Renkert, 40 Main street; w. III. Simms
b, 1876 Poplar street; Batter d Co, l20 Beal
0 street; w. b. Stafford & Co., l39 Hernand
{ street; J G. Zshrlng, 642 Shelby street; n
H Knox, corner Second and Greenla'
0 streets; NJ. A. M Hugh, 300 Madison street.
e Rnles for Dispensing. Dispense 1t Only t
g adults. The amount TO be dispensed is nc
: to exceed tWenty-tour ounces, one wine bot
q tie, or equivalent quantity. If more
f deemed necessary, application must be mad
: to the secretary, who will give MS order 70
= same, which will be honored by those
D charge of disinfectants. When the suppl
0 is getting low, those In charge of disintect
r ants will at once notify the secretary, 50 tina
q | tee supply NAV never fail.
R. W. MITCHELL, M. D., Sanitary Director.
W. B. VIM, Md. Secretary.