The daily gazette., 1881-05-18

hours. For room about ten square
at least two pounds Of sulphur should
be used for larger rooms, proportion.
ately increased quantities. g
Cellars, yards, stables,
CUTTERS, fpfivies, cesspools,s water
closets, drains, sewers, ETC., should be
frequently and literally treated with
copperas solution. The copperas sola-
sion is easily prepared by hanging q
basket containing about sixty pounds
of copperas In q barrel of water.
Body and bed .clolhing, eic-It ID
best to bury when possible all articles
which have been Id contact with per
sons sick with contagious or infections
diseases, after they have been disin-
fected. Articles too valuable TO be de-
stroyed should be treated as follows
Cotton, linen, fannels, blankets, ETC.,
sh uld be treated with the boiling hot
zinc solution, introducing piece by
piece, securing thorough wetting and
boiling for at least half an hour.
Hoavy wooden clothing, silks, furs,
stuffed bed covers, beds and other arti-
cles which cannot be treated with the
zinc solution, should be hung in the
room, during fnmication, pockets turn
ed inside out, and the whele garment
exposed. Afterwards they should be
hung in the open air, beaten and
shaken. Pillows, beds, stuffed mat
tresses, upholstered furniture, &C.,
should be cut open, the contents
spread out, aud thoroughly fumlgated.
Carpets are best fumigated on the
floor, but should afterwards be re-
moved to the open air and thoroughly
beaten.
The corpses should be thoroughly
washed with zinc solution of double
strength, then wrapped In sheet wet
with the zinc solution and buried at
once. Metallic, metal-lined or air
tight coffins should be used when pos
sibie, certainly when the body is TO be
transported for any considerable dis.
tance.
Executive Officer Underwood report
ed that during the week he had received
Is complaints of non-removal of garbage
and four In relation to nuisances; also
that he had had McCaulley street clean.
ed and the filth carted away.
A nuisance consisting Of deposit of
manure on the lot In the rear of the jute
mill, at Fourth street and the railroad
was referred to the Executive Officer, to
have the offender fined and the nuisance
abated.
The Executive Ofacers were instruct
ed to have removed all garbage that the
fell to remove, the cost TO be
taken from the money due the contrac-.
tors on their contracts.
Orders were drawn for the late Exc
cutive officers, as follows: d. ii. The
mas, $2O.50; Vim. Bowers, $3.50.
The Executive Officers we're instruct
ed to ascertain what the garbage con-
tractors do with the garbage they re-
move.
he Secretary was instructed to ad-
Vertise in the newspapers, and publish In
handbill shape caution to people In re-
lation to throwing dirt, offal, rubbish and /
lead animals In the streets.
Resolutions requesting Council TO in |
orm the Board whether It is the duty of |
he Street Commissioner or owners of |
adjoining property to keep cutters clean;
md also instructing the Street Uommis- |
loner, when not Inconsistent with the |
water supply, to wash the cutters of the |
.ity on Saturdays and Wednesdays of |
zach week, were read and adopted.
A complaint about dirt being deposit |
ID on Conrad street by the city was re-
erred to the City Council.
Adjourned.