Daily Republican., 1883-07-11
THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
A LARGE NUMBER OF CON.
PLANTS LAST
EVENING.

The regular weekly meeting Of the
Board of Health was held last evening,
with President Bush in the chair. A
complaint was entered by Mrs. A. j.
Mearns, of the smell arising from a
cesspeo at she Atlantic Garden, on
King street between Second and Third
streets The place has been declared a
nuisance, and the Executive Officer
was directed to notify the owner, Mrs.
Herting, to abate.it within two weeks,
or suit would be commenced against her
before Judge Cummins.
A manuscript copy OF that portion
of the new city chatter which relates to
the Board of Health was presented by
the Secretary, and 200 copies ordered to
be printed.
A complaint was made of the filthy
condition of Jones street, and the Street
Commissioner was ordered to have it
lcleaned.
/ The following resolutions, offered By
DR.. Grimshaw, were unanimously
|adopted:
Resolved That in the opinion OF this
Board all streets and cutters bordering
Oh or bounding m arket houses or street
markets shall be cleaned after the
lOulo VI OtlNh Illdl hCl eiby hIlt III buU
case of the market houses always on the
nights of Wednesday and Saturday At
10 o'clock
Resolved, That the City Council is
hereby requested to direct that
action shall be taken in accordance with
the above resolution.
! The Secretary stated that from in
formation he had received, there would
probably be fournew cases of smallpox
reported to-day, none Of which had
been vaccinated.
| DR.. Bush said that in his,opinion the
re-appearence of the disease was due in
great measure to the miserable and
| careless manner in which the city vac
cine physlc ans attended to theirduties.
He charged them with neglecting the
work that they were appointed to per-
form, and criticised their actions severe
| ly. The Secretary said that he under
stood the foar persons mentioned had
tak en- the disease from member of the
family that was reported last meeting
night.
The Executive Officer of the Western
District was instructed to visit the
premises at Sixth and DUPONT streets,
where the disease exists, and ascertain
how many Of the inmates Of that house
and the houses in the vicinity have not
been yaecinated, and report to the
Board at the next meeting.
! The Executive Officers were also in
structed to visit each of the oderless
excavating companies, and examine
their apparatus to see that they are in
thorough working order. On motion of
Mr.. Feaster, the Treasurer was in
structed to request the City Council to
give the Board 5000, on account of this
years allowance. The street Commits
sioner was requested to have the guttera
flushed twice a week, and the filth
cleaned out from under the gutter plates
at least once in two weeks, during thd
hot weather.
| Mr. Gawthrop offered resolution,
that was adopted, calling the attention
of City Council to a nuisance on West
street between Thirteenth and Four
teenth streets, and asking that the
street be curbed and guttered, so the
nuisance could be abated.
"A complaint was made by persons
living over Third street bridge of the
smell from the tallow-rendering estab-
lishment recently erected in that vicini-
ty by man named Pierce. The Ex-
ecutive Officer was Instructed to notify
the proprietor to abate the nuisance
Immediately, and if he does not, to have
a warrant issued for his arrest.
Senator Bayard and Coun "ilman
Mention complained of the offensive
smell arising from the numerous hog
pens and slope rts in the vicinity Of
Front and Union streets, and the Secre-
tary was instructed to notify the owner
that they would have to keep the pens
clean, so that persons would not be an
noyel by the smell, or they would be
removed by the Board. DIR. Glimshaw
called attention to his resolut on offered
at the last meeting of the Board, reques.
ting Frederick II. Robinson, Chief En-
gineer and Surveyor, to he present at
the meetings, and said that as he had
failed to pay any attention to the mat
ter, he moved the resolution be referred
to City Council, and the motion was
adopted. The following bills were Or
dered to be paid E. B. Frazer, $3.50;
James & Webb Printing and Station
cry Company, $3.50 James Stuart, $3 +;
for cleaning the office so cents.