The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1882-08-11

AT the meeting of the Hartford County
Board of Health, held in Bel Air, on Satur-
day, July %, 1881, the following order was
| adopted
Res0tCed, That u committee, consisting of
Drs Lee, Forwood, Hayward, Kennedy and
Chapman, be appointed to issue an address
| to the Gamers Of Hartford county, advising
| them in regard to the best means ofdisposing
of the otial accumulating about their fac
| tories, and that the same be published in the
county newspapers"
This address not having been issued dur.
| ing the last summer as was designed by the
meeting, the important subject was brought
| to the notice of the Medical Society of Har.
ford county, by DR., r. ID. Lee, at its meeting
| held in Bel Air, May s, 1882, and upon the
motion of DR.. Lee the following was unani
mously approved:
"Whereds, Many of the citizens of Hartford
| county have become alarmed in view of the
| frequent sickness and great mortality which
| has prevailed in the immediate vicinity of
| canning houses, and supposed to owe its orr
| gin to the offensive exhalations of their neg.
lected otial, and observing with increased
| alarm the rapid multiplication of these estab
| ishments in all parts of the county, it be-
comes our duty, as the guardians and conser-
vators of the public health, to investigate the
| w SuDDUbCi W ItODulNlIt
| health and comfort, and suggest their rene.
| dy or removal.
| "Thelet0re he ii ReSOtoed, That the Medical
Society of Hartford County invite the Ooun-
| ty Board of Health, and our citizens gener-
ally, who may be connected with the can
ming interest," to cooperate in q joint meet
| ing, to be held at the Court House, Bel Air,
on Monday, July 81, 1889, at II o'clock, A.
| NJ, for the accomplishment of common
purpose, when, it is hoped that the commit
tee appointed last year will present their
report upon the proper disposition of the
offa matter about canneres, for the consid-
Grafton and action of the said joint meeting"
In presenting the following Address to the
Gamers" the Secretary ofboth organizations
takes occasion to say that the member of the
Committee from Aberdeen, DIR. Kennedy, who
| has had considerable experience, and opportu-
mites for personal examination in regard to
the odors and the diseases associated with
canning houses has furnished the Secretary
| with the substantial points which constitute
the foundation facts of this report. In fact
the report is due to his interest and energy.
The other members of the Committee, much
| to our regret, have, in essential particulars,
failed to cooperate with us in supplying the
materials here presented; hence the delay i'm
the preparation of the Address All members
| OF the COMMITTEE, however, VINO have had
the opportunity of examining the report,
now give it their Endorsement.
In compliance with the foregoing order,
the committee now respectfully submits to
the joint meeting the following
Address TO the Gamers of Hartford
County.
tits advised, in the first place, that those who
are contemplating the erection of canning
factories should consider with careful fore
thought the most eligible location, as remote
as possible from dwelling houses, and from
public highways; so that the health and the
comfort Of those in the vicinity may not suf-
| fer in those cases where the following re-
Communications may not be rigidly observ-
ed or enforced.
| Gamers are instructed that, in the sanitary
view, by which we are governed, it becomes
rule Of the utmost Importance that no vege-
table matter whatever be allowed to ferment
or undergo decomposition about the pre-
misses that no unpleasant odors shall be per-
mitted to pollute the atmosphere, for it is an
established fact in sanitary science that those