The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-24
THE SANITARY COMMITTEE.

| The regular weekly meeting Of the executive
committee III the New Orleans Aux Hilary SAM
| tary Association was held yesterday, Vice
| President Fenncr in tho chair.
| Mr.. Eldnr, chairman Of the committee on
| canals and drainage, reported all cnhals IN
| the city In good order and full OF clear water
| DR. White sanitary director. reported sew
enty-nine deaths during tho week, of which
| five were from maIarial and one from yellow
| fever.
There was no yellow fever In the city.
He submitted tho following communication
New ORLEANS. August 2, 1879.
TO The Honorable New Orleans Auxiliary SAM
tnIy Association:
Gentlemen our attention Is respectfully
asked to the intolrrable nnlsance Of private
cow-stabIcs nterspersed among family dwell
ings In the populous portions OF the city.
Complaint of this nuisance was recently made
To the city administration by residents OF the
Fourth District, and tho adoption OF an ordi-
nance for the abatement Of the nuisance WAS
urged; but no decisive action has AS yet boon
taken. Tho influence at your association is
respectfully asked in aid Of thtt object:
ii Is claimed that many of the stnble5 arc
kept "clcan and we'll ventilated" But that
If true, docs not diminish the nuisance. Bet
ter that no ventilation was had. and that the
stables were Theoretically sealed; for the foul
air expelled from them as also the swarm OF
flies which they attract, Till the adjacent
dwellings,, while the ground on which thGv
stand, and the lot in which they are placed,
are saturated with The eScrcment and urine,
and contamnate the atmosphere OF the entire
neighhorhood. The washngs stagnate In tho
lot or are conducted into the cutters OF the
street, there TO bs absorbed into the earth,
and the evil is thus extended to all families
whose dwellings front upon it,
The owners Of the cows admit that they are
q nuisance by invariably stabIlng them, as
remotely as possible from their dwellings,
though often In close proximity to that OF
their noighbor. The city authorities have,
very properly, by ordinance, prohibited the
keeping Of pigs within tho pound limits OF
the city Leovys Dig, i38l. Yet the cow,
and her clean, wel-ycntllated" stable, is N
far greater nuisance To naighhorhood than
the pig and his "clean and well-vcntilated'
sty.
That living In tho Initiated atmosphere Ct
sHch stables ia Ms deleteTious to the health as
ii Ia Destructive TO the comfort of families
scarcely requires the testimony Of medical
men. IT, however that be desired, you have
before you the unanimous report OF the New
Orleans Medical andiSurgical Association.
Very respectfully, j. w. GURLEY.
It was referred to tho committee on confer
ence with the Board Of Health.
Or. White further reported that the lying
inspection aud disinfection or all tho dwelling
houses In the city would DO made u second
time, commencing "a Thursday next. As on
the first round Of the city, tho zinc-jron disin
fectant will be used II Is Of superior quality
and obtained under special contract with L.
l.. Lyons, the wholesale druggist, who Is also
making largo quantities of it for the National
Board OF Health. DR.. White expressed the
hope that tho sanitary corps would bn as well
received BY the citizens as they were on their
first visit, and that they will continue the
iron very low, SO that Dr. Whites suggestion
can be carried out ut small cost.
After receiving Or. Whites report the COM
mite adjourned.