The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-08-30
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
A CITIZENS JUST COMPLAINT.
TowsoxrowN. August 2lst. 1884

TowsoNTowN, August 2lst, 1884.
Messrs. Lonqnecker Bros.:-Will you kindly
permit one of the readers of your valuable paper,
through its columns, to say word in behalf of
decency and the health OF our beautiful little
town.? For years past the foul smells emanating
from neglected Closets pig sites, etc., have given
rise to many comments and complaints, notably
so among transient visitors during the summer
months, until at last we have made move in the
right direction in applying to and obtaining from
the Legislature sanitary law for the better COM
fort and protection of our citizens, and the pros
perity of our town and vicinity. Under this law
we have Sanitary Inspector, whose duty it is to
see that the same is properly enforced. The law
is stringent in its provisions with reference to
owners and occupants of property, prohibiting all
nuisances and requiring that all garbage, offal,
etc., shall be placed in suitable receptaces to be
removed by the garbage man. 1t also provides
that focal matter, ofa, etc., shall be deposited
within half mile of the limits of the town. Now
we submit that instead of benefit this law-or
rather the manner in which it is at present oper
ated-is indecent and detrimental to the health,
prosperity and best interests of the town.
In the first place, instead of having cart for
the collection of garbage and Stops every day, or
certainly every other day, we have cart twice
week, and as the occupant of the premises is not
permitted to have garbage, slops or ofal removed
and buried within a half mile of the town, it &C
nights of these August days, thus going through
q process of fermentation and decomposition, and
spreading the germs of disease and perhaps death,
besides rendering the air impure, uncomfortable
and offensive. But this is not the worst feature
Of the matter. Disgusting and repugnant as it is
to every sense of decency, and deleterious as it
must be to the health of the community, to say
nothing of the comfort of the citizens, have in
broad daylight-and at all hours of the day-the
might cart We have frequently, during the last
and the present month, seen this cart passing
along the streets during the day, containing open
barrels, filled with the contents of houses that had
just been cleaned. But the attention of the writer
was more particularly called to this matter on
| cleaned at two O'clock in the day. The deposit
was carried in small open vessel, at least seventy
five yards, and emptied into an open box placed
in an open cart and hauled along the public road
the contents of the box dripping out into the road
all along at short intervals. This reported
to the Sanitary Inspector, who promised to imme.
diatey investigate the matter and prevent like
occurrence. Now, Messrs Editors, to my amaze
ment and disgust, was riding with my children
to-day Gust week since the above occurrence
when l suddenly observed the most horrible and
sickening stencil, and in few moments this same
cart approached upon the public highway, in
broad daylight, containing the same box with the
fecal matter dropping from the cracks and open
ings along the road rendering the atmosphere, for
some distance, most foul and noxious Whose
fault this is it is not for the writer to say but
surely it is an outrage upon decency, and it is
high time that the proper authorities are called
upon to have it stopped. 1t is not only deleteri-
GUS and detrimental to health, but offensive and
uncomfortable in every sense, and our courts have
said, broadly and emphatically, that the public is
entitled to enjoy pure air, and anything that rem
ders it noxious and impure is nuisance.
Can it for moment be tolerated that one can
not travel the public road in broad daylight with
out being subjected to such a disgusting and in
siderable nuisance? OBSERVER.
1.-THE above letter was intended for last weeks
ISSUE but was unavoidably crowded out.-EDs.