, 1881-02-27

| never will remove them. After found it was
ne 0f no re 70 put hsm .n II the aiiey mad them
ashes and garbage there became 50 dlsg1aceful
that had them renewed myself, aud decided
that tnG Gest Thing Tor me to DO was to throY all
soou as the tnaw carried OF the snow to have it
AL removed III q lump at my own expense"
nearly all those tho condition Of whose buck
yards would seem to suggest an innate rather
than forced disregard Of the most commonly
understood laws Of sanitation.
THE EXAMINATION OF TIE REST OF TIE
failed to discovora condition OF Affairs ut all
paral1cl to that found at No. IS, although the
condition Of It the plumbing was found 10 be
: not in very great volume present in some.
Standing upon the northwest corner Of Mil
and sns s IS
lower storles by: the Northwestern Division
Post -ONtcc, a drug store. and hardware store,
to wheh ead fe On se
ond storyot the house, whose Milwaukee avenue
front was numbered 4sa. aud whose Chicago ave-
nue. front was numbered @38, the investigators
interviewed one Of the tena:i7s. who said that
the occupants had had great trou bic with the
bad odors which made their llyes miserable Tho
lady herself hnd had q very bad attack OF ftph-
iberia during tho winter, and so had her husband
aud one OF her children. Another family On the
san,e oor, consisting OF eight people, had bud FIVE
0t the number seriously sick, and DIR. Schaefcr.
who attended thenl had stated that the sewer
gas In tho building was ut the bottom OF the
trouble: The other, family: on the second floor
visited. and tho lady at its head stated that
during the winter dlphtherla. croop, and whoop-
ng-cough had added to the usunl anxieties OF
domestic life.
Determination Of the tencmcnts showed that in
eacn Of the passages was water-closet aud
sink. which supplied the necessities Of the Occn-
pants Of tho floor, The waste pipes of the sink
tho thru floor were found to bt. out Of order,
in consequence Of which tho sink WAS occupied
by liquids which could not ind an egre5s. The
h-pxfya jk1ut1n 1nrFr $rtr In
soil-ptpe. upon the floor around which were
seen the drlppings from tho closet. The smell
of sewor-gas was plainly dtstinguishabc ut this
were tho same, aud, added to the sewer-gas. the
stencil of dead rats was observed. The same
thing was observed in tue nex5 building,-No.
4S5 OIL Milwaukee avenue, and No. 236 on Chi
caEo avcnue,-WheEe one OF the tenants said
that tho sewer-Sas was almost always In the
house, and that herself and several OF her
boarders hnd been made seriously sick BY IT,.
The basement WIS searched In quest OF piece
Of plumbing reported to have been done that
day In response to tho combined complaint Of
the tenants made some two weeks previously.
It was found leak had existed at the junction
OF tho ~aste-soil pipe with tho tile, but it had
with his little trowel and Il few ounces Of NOR :
tar, and had pasted up tue aperture. From an
S+ Po,n. @ o. v,e% ~ the 51D was rs great
cracks again and the tissure reappears, and the
soil pipe filth oozes through tt again and the
sewer-gas again sur9es through the building,
and tho children and adults get sick again, then
it will happen that-woll, simply that after an-
other loud protest. followed by another long de-
lay. with an abundance at doctors visits by way
of lnterluda, the plumber will come again with
his trowel and patch with some more mortar the
broken mortnr with which he patched tho soil
pipu leaks on the previous occasion. and it is
only the old story of Indifference,
i1nbecility, and tenant long-suY Ycrtng.
wi gG 9n oa %
arise in their might and demand Ut their land
lords those just concessions which the tenant
who pays his rent regularly every month in ad-
vance has right to demand, and which the !aw
ought to sustain him In demanding.