Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-04

DIV TlNST lillS CITY III It's StttCf
has been ocsalarly demonstrated. He said the
Sacramento river to-day was not the noble
stream that ii was thirty years ago. 1t is
bad enoseh now without the addition of
million gallons of sewage daily. 1t was
wrongs and he understood from good au
thoritg that parties who live below the city
stand
READY TO ENJofN Us
As soon as we commence fouling the
stream. 1t is stated that the slaughter
houses and glue factories of this city con-
template moving to Yelo county, at point
sboyc the town of Washington, where they
will deposit their blood and offal into the
river Can we oppose them when We are
committing IA similar offense at Y street?
He was in favor of using the sewage as
fertilizer That sewage is the best thing
that can be put on land has often been
proved Land near this city that has been
enriched by sewage matter yields 1000
pounds of hops to the acre. East of this
city are large tracts of adobe land that could
be made fertile by depositing this sewage
upon it. The city could purchase 200 acres
Of this land, fertilize it and rent it all out TO
Italian gardeners at a rental of S25 per acre
per annum.
DR.. Cluness said he had been a member
of the Board of Health of this city for
the period of twenty-one years. During
all that time he had known of no instance
where anything serious had resulted from
the opening and cleaning of vaults. On
the contrary, he was satisfied that the
health of the city was very much improved
by the constant and vigilant care of vaults
and cesspools. They must be opened and
cleansed in order to preserve the health. A
foul and poisonous disease-breeding cess
pool must be cleansed at once, no matter
what day of the week or what month OF the
year. He said it was
FANcIED IDEA
That the city of Marysville polluted the
Sacramento river There is no evidence
whatever but that the water is as pure
below as above Marysville No city of the
size of Sacramento could pollute stream
the size of the Sacramento.
F. R. Dray said he did not want to have
much to say about case where doctors
disagreed. He believed III disinfectants,
and thought, like DR.. Simmons, that il
would be unwise to open up the cesspools
| during the warm weather. He said nearly
all the closets and cesspools could be
sweetened by a liberal use of copperas. He
| was opposed to pumping the sewage into
| the river People below the city use the
river water for domestic purposes, and it
would not be right, nor just, nor proper to
so dispose of it.
DR.. Lame, a member Of the Board OF
| Health, reviewed and replied to the re-
| marks of DR. Simmons. He said he was
opposed to the city's going into a 500, OOt
| farming speculation The matter of pump.
| ing the sewage into the river is no new
| idea, but one that has frequently been dis
cussed in the Board of Health. Hundreds
of cesspools and vaults have been opened
this summer, and it can be said of Sacra
| mento at this time that the health of the
city was never better than it has been the
past year.
Dr. Oatman thought all cesspools thai
could not be disinfected
| SHOULD BE cLEANsED,
And all others should remain undisturbe6
until lust before the rain He thought the
contents of ceSspools should be cartet
through the streets before o'clock A. N
He was opposed to universal cleansing Of
cesspools and vaults at this time, but sale
all offensive ones should be cleansed with
| out delay.
DIR. Simmons said no man in the city de
| sired to have it cleaned more than did he
While member of the Board of Health
| he always recommended cleaning up be-
| fore the hot weather. All places that are
foul should be looked after Immediately
Foul odorS are very unhealthy; they
vitiate the atmosphere, and should bt
| abated. Disinfect your yards and cess
pools, but open as little to the air as possible
| He said if the city would lift the sewage
he would guarantee that it would not cos
the city cent if they would guarantee the
requirement of land. Ii scientific engi
neer will say to us that it is
| HEALTHY FOR US TO PUMP
Into Y street and drink at l street, then he
would pay the expense of his trip.
| DR.. Lame believed in the house-to-houst
| inspection. He did not believe in causing
every cesspool to be cleaned out, but only
those that are obnoxious.
| Felix Tracy was in favor Of adopting the
report of the committee.
| H. NJ La Rue said this was no time t.
| trade horses. 1t was a well-known fact, he
| said, that hundreds of cesspools in the city
| were foul, and the Board of Health should
order them Immediately cleaned. The
ground is full of poison and deadly gases
| are constantly escaping in the air. Let this
meeting express an opinion that they shouic
| be Immediately cleaned.
Miller withdrew his motion and Offered
| the following:
| ter system can be suggested, the sewage of this
city be pumped into the Sacramento river
F. R. Dray said if the city authorities
| would pump water into the sewers instead
of China slough, it would do some good.
DIR. Simmons said twenty-five cities anC
towns in Scotland had been enjoined from
dumping sewage into streams. He thought
| Sacramento had made mistake by no
getting her water from above Folsom.
H. NJ La Rue said cities along the banks
of the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri de
nature has made it so that we have to pump
why not do so? He mentioned number
| of
LARGE CITIES IN THE WEST
| That empty their sewage into the rivers
The water of the Ohio is pure and good
| yet on its banks are scores of cities tina
! dump into it their sewage. He said tn,
! canal below the city is disease breeding.
Mayor Brown said he was in full accOrC
with the proposition made by the commit
| tee. Sanitary measures should be imme
| diately undertaken. The Board of Healtl
will receive all the aid from the Trustee:
that it is possible to give. He was in favor
| of pumping the sewage into the Sacra
mentO river, and Endorsed the remarks o.
Mr.. La Rue on that subject. He said ar
eight-inch pipe was small thing compared
| TO the vast river and he was satisfied that
the water would purify itself before it rar
three miles. He said the sewers of the city
were flushed weekly.
Daniel Brown said the lower end OF the
drainage canal was not finished. If it was
completed to Snodgrass slough it would be
of much more service to the city.
City Engineer Bassett said that within
the last five years large amount of work
had been done on the canal, and it was
now in
BETTER CONDITION THAN EVER BEFORE
He said there was but ten feet fall in
| twenty-five miles, and the tide at the slough
rose six feet. The canal is now filled with
putrid stagnant water During the months
| of July and August the water in the slough
does not move at Sutterville. The ABSORB
| ton and evaporation takes up all the sewage
before it reaches two miles from the city.
| He was satisfied that good drainage could
never be got by canal and he had come IN