, 1881-10-09

WHICH are nuQQleu LWc!llv-uVt ptlsoHs: ~
is oyercrowded and dirty, and the Whole
place is in Il sad state of dilapidatlon and
unfit to be occupied.
THIRD WARD.
No. 2l3l Dearborn street, owned by T. d.
Uuszagll, tenement Of seven rooms. occll-
pied by six persons. The plumbing work IS
poor and the drainage bad. The roof is
leaky, there is stagnant. water under the
house, and the walls are dirty.
No. 1911 Dearborn street. III. l.. Pearce
agent, IS 4 frame OF seven rooms. occupied
by fourteen persons. It. Is oyercrowded and ad
there is filthy ditch and stagnant water
pool near the premises: it is nothing better
than an old frame shanty.
FIFTH WARD.
At No 2s66 Hickory avenue, owned BY
Mrs. Menhall. the drainage and prlyy vaults
are bad. The drain is a rotten and useless
affair, and the sewage collects under the
1t 30. a6e6 Main street, owned by Maria
Ball. the plumbing Is defective and prlyy
vault full and offensive: The Water-supply
No. 473 Twenty-nintl street, owned by
William Wilkinson, Is a tenement Of Iell
rooms, occupied by sixteen persons. M Iie
drainage is bad and the sewer cl!okett: Tue
rainpikcs are III sad need Of repairs. Richard
Cole owns 40. 60 Main street, where the
walls are filthy, and there Is 4 tnll anu o1eh~
siye prlyy vault.
FOURTEENTH WARD.
No. 463 Dudley street, owned by Fred Ros-
sal, is a two-story frame OF eight rooms, oG-
cupied bynineteen persons ana over-croWaea:
The drainage is Door and the prlVy vault Is
full anu offensive. No. AGA on the same street,
is owned by the same party and has the same
sanitary defects.
Mrs. Paulina Rain owns No; 81 S27 ~ West eS
fensive iI pTivy. 7i 30. SO west Division street
owned by John Zlngke- has the same oeleets
as the previous tenement
SEVENTEENTH WARD.
No. 254 North Market street, Mrs. Mary
Fritzgerke owner, is frame Of sixteen roomS
occupied BY sixteen persons; Ih!S @ Is 5,naI
leaks ana the plumbing work is poor. lhe
drainage IS bad and priyy full and offensive.
| The owner is sick upon the premises
No: .156 North Market street, OF WI Wnlca ~
Baird l. Bradley are the agents, is a brick OF
| twelve rooms occupied by twenty-one per-
| sons The whole place is III all exceedingly
| door door sanitary. condition. The waste-pipes
are untrapped, so that the tenants can nave
the full benefit OF the aeath,aealg, t ,s se"al a1a
| grimy and black for want Of calclmlnlng,
| The water-c1oset is under the sidewalk, and
| is in need Of cleaning and repairing. Ihe
place is oyercrowded, filthy, and unwho1e-
| some.
SMALLPOX.
/ The mortality from the smallpox contln-
| ues yerv large in proportion to the number
| Of cases reported The disease which IS pre-
| yailng now is OF a very malignant nature;
md in nearly ll cases where IT. IS .. aeveivpea
There were nine deaths from smallpox yes
terday. One was at the Pest-Hnuse,, case cast
! taken from No. 165 Waubansia avenue. Ile e
t other deaths occurred ut Nos. Loo ana ~ -
Elston avenue, Greeley place, No. % Fifth
street, No. 160 Mohawk, and 20. a tleln0n1
street. New cases were reported from NO;
$50 Milwaukee avenue, No. 10 Clayton, anu
no 7s North fanlna street: s.+a Dpnsnela tran4 ana
| scarlet-feyer fro1n. No. 81 Rose street, III the
| rear.
| sMALL-PoN IN THE FOURTEENTH "Aho'
| u the Editor Of TIE Chicago 1FtouHe-
CHICAGO, Oct. Sit has been said by some
of our newspapers, that there are more cases
Of smallpox in the Fourteenth Nara lnan III
any other part Of the CITY, Whether Ih1s Is
true or not, l do not know; but one thne
tlo know-it cannot very well be worse. olle
can scarcely Stake All hours stroll through
the ward without meeting with some ha1'
| dozen or more persons bearing marks OF nav:
i11g been recent victims OF this terrlhle maj
adv. During the past month there nave oeeh'
including those Sat present SICK Win II: o1
conyaiescng, twenty-five cases VI sinalfpoS
within n stones throw Of our residence. But
| one Of these cases has been reported Ill any
naner lave seen, and take daily, moi
7 have there been but two taken TO the pest
ho1,se. Ii is not all uncommon thing to see
! smallpox sign on each OF thfee eo1lsGeu
live houses. Taking this rs basis Of ca!cn
l,t1un il would seem that less than one east
in twenty is reported i'll the papers, aud less
than one case i'll ten IS taken 10 tne pest
house. \ certain man OF my acQuaihtanIee =
1s 'argS fsrde 5~0fsolxl faxllts oo's whea we
oaseH ons Of these families lie reported it to t,e
Health Office. hoping thereby to get IN me ,ls, pa
tiel1;s removed to the pest-house, t'a. ut6s ~
LEA fhat the patients did not wish to be SEM
tnart. iln then asked whether they were no.
compelled BY law to remove them, nroviueu f,1
there was room il the pestrhouse; lne ;t Ati,
nsoa -. ,nd fhe pal}ent whether they are taken
there or mt. Our will and Judgment Is 81 the
| nniv 1aw.',- This remark set ille to tMnnnS9
fI,af if it were true that the will OF tue Heaiti
Department the on law NV y f tI,nE Gsi; i ha.
hann.. ~ The law interie res in matters OF la
i"s: i,,,mrtance, and why mot in TINS cast
.jso = t}ut it seems it does not, Il the con
~nIteu party dit not tell Il tasellood anout !. !.
It seems perfectly incrsaioG n ae 4h cIt2 th
nr a,,v other contagion shall be allowed e
sgrsa Hy H9shSssea cf ss eesrs 6 stt
lifely but we - are @ compelled to believe it
91S otbSerwise y we must belieye that ct least ON
Office oiiicer told .:whoppsr, about sst It: ho,sa :,
a,,i II r. q, neople outside have very litti
liza ra of t he sStent s of this disease in Tie sity
ners o1s csss ~ RS n fs # s fssa
'.E' tn., n..stAhn,se. and vet they tel! lie 1t
fulI. m w just think Of it. The pest-hou;s;s ;;a,a
sti sfs nstsds tgs Il p25f ii aha a
iics exi,ospd more or less to contact dlIecil =
or or Indirectly with those susceptible I;,teso to 10
disease These facts gls;s ;nsthsd the ,sdD ~ wsane
and and that m It viii continue to rage until ever
person in the city who is not smalpqx noE pt1o o
Shall have been afflicted by It AfS n4s for III II
snread Of he disease BY contact! l. nay nay
been informed, and loel.egta It 70 go es 'ta1 or
that health officers sometmesS ~ ~