Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-15
Board of Health.

Opinion OF the Corporation Counsel Re-
garding Nuisances-Other Matters OF
Interest.
The regular weekly meeting of the Board
of Health was held last evening. Present,
Professor Brewer (presiding), Dr.. White
more. d. NJ. WEIGH and Health Officer Linds-
ley.
The following business was transacted af-
ter reading of the minutes, which were APP
proved. -
Clerk Whedon stated that he had been in
formed by Corporation Counsel stoddard
that in his opinion the city was not liable for
the bill of DIR. Bissell for attending smallpox
patients at the almshouse. He had not given
a written opinion, but his verbal opinion had
been endorsed on the bill.
The following opinion from the Corpora
ton Counsel was also received:
To the Hon. Board Of Health Of the City Of
Nel0 HGGe7a.
q In reply to your request to advise You as to
your power to discontinue carpet cleaning
establishment, which you say amounts to a
nuisance public nuisance endangering
public health is of such character as to war
rant and demand your action to abate it.
A private nuisance I do not think You
OuQQG TO 1nG6f16r0 Will, OE dLL6upb To. 1u6
parties injured in the last instance have
ample remedy by injunction and action for
damages.
Of course, before your action, summary
and somewhat arbitrary as it is, is resorted
to, it should appear plainly, almost beyond
possibility of dispute, that the nuisance is OF
| the character above stated.
If there is any substantial question whether
the nuisanceis of character to call into
action your jurisdiction and powers il
would be better to have the question settled
| by the Judgment of court before you inter.
fere. A prosecution (criminaD for maintain.
| ing public nuisance is frequently resorted
| to to determine that question.
If the court should determine this estab
lishment to be public nuisance your course
would be clear, and generally it is best in 6
manufacturing business, lawful in itself, t6
wait until the question of nuisance is judici
ally determined.
proper complaint.
There is nothing stated in your communi
cation to me that would warrant you in pros
ecuting to abate that establishment as
nuisance !; yet it may be of such charactel
| as to require your action.
Dated at New Haven, June 18th, 1881.
/ ..s -e=e HENRY SToDDARD,
Corporation Counsel.
l The opinion was ordered on file.
The reports of the garbage inspectors TO
the past week were read and ordered on Ale
| Adjourned.
| The National Woman Suffrage COnven
ton.
The rights, and the wrongs particularly, o
married women have long since passed tn
stage when they can be laughed at. Thirt
years ago the dismal story provoked ghastl
merriment, but Governor Hubbard states tn
exact truth when he says, '"The old common
law assumed the subjugation of the wife an
stripped her of the better part of her right
of person and nearly all her rights of prop
erty. It is matter of establishment, " say
| the good Governor, t'that Christian nation
should have been willing for eighteen Ger
turtles to hold the mothers of their race in
condition of legal servitude. 1t has been tn
scandal of Jurisprudence.
Every thoughtful woman in this countr
will feel grateful for these stirring and dec
sive words.
The convention of representative wome
of the South and West, to be held this wee
at the Atheneum, will probably discuss tn
whole topic of these rights and wrongs, an
will perhaps suggest some guarantees an
remedies that seem to them important ever
way to men as well as to women. They may
in fact, utter few words from the fair Sc
to the sometimes rather unfair sex.