St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-17
INREGARD TO HEALTH.
Valuable Statistics showing the
SANITARY work of the Year.

Valuable Statistics showing the
Sanitary Work of the Year.
Health Officer Jones and his efficient
clerk, w. G. Bryant, are hard at work on
their annual report, and they have so Tar
advanced with their labOrs that half
hours study of the statistics in the compre-
hensive manner in which they are pre-
scented. gives a good idea of the sanitary
condition of the city. It's hardly necessary
to laud the health department for its effi-
cheney, so many compliments having been
said of it by the chamber of commerce and
individual citizens. On every hand are evil
dences that the sanitary condition OF the
city was never more favorable, and the
same evidences give proof Of energetic and
tireless work by those who hold the
healthfulness of the city, as 1t
were. in the hollow of their
hands. The improvement i'll the working
of the health department since DR.. Jones
took the helm can hardly be estimated.
When he assumed the duties of the office
the records were in state of chaotic lndef-
niteness from which it seemed almost i'm
possible to rescue them, but through I'M
wearied perseverance it can be truly said
that out of chaos has been wrought pertec-
ton, and to-day the department is under
systematic and thorough operation that
places it on an equal footing with the SAM
tary machinery OF any city in the Union
Immediately after his going into office last
June, DR.. Jones organized Il corps OF in
spectors and so planned their work that
there could be no excuse for not faith
fully performing their duty and
This they seem to have done. The health
department force consisted, up to Dec. /,
of DR.. Talbot Jones, president; W. c..
Bryant, clerk; Inspectors ?. IL. McManus,
who resigned Dec. 4, 1885; Henry Bell and
John Fitzgerald, J. r. Storr, A. l.. Robin
son, George Lamb, Thomas Conway,
Richard O'Connor and Henry Meyerding,
A. Northelfer Waterman at the dumping
grounds, who resigned Dec. 5, 1885, and
Emil WichOrt, who has charge OF the pest
house. Mr.. Lamb confines his labors to the
inspection of meats, and the record of his
work during the past year reflects great
credit upon himself The resignation of
the two employees of the department was
brought about by certain members of the
council insisting that the expenses of the
department should be curtailed during the
winter months.
WHAT THEY HAVE DONE.
An idea of what the inspectors have done
in their respective fields of labor cannot
conveniently be given in detail but the ag
gregatiOn of their work is shown and its
beneficial effect is portrayed and substan-
tiated by the extremely low death rate for
the year ending Nov. l.
Meat Inspector Lamb condemned 10, 492
pounds of meat during the year, making
1913 calls, examined 500 cellars and abated
81 nuisanceS. He was appointed June %,
1885. Inspector Conway inspected SO, III
head of stock in transit.
OF stock and meat he has condemned
1860 pounds of beef. 12.636 pounds of
mutton and 13, 261 pounds of pork. Total
amount of meat condemned So, 457 pounds
There -wese III, 1876 cubic feet of night
soil removed during the year by the ST. Paul
0dorless EXcavating company, on 1, 905 per-
mits issued from the health office. The
company is allowed 10 cents per cubic foot
for removing the soil, and the bills flor such
services amounted to 81, 1880. At the
city dumping grounds there were 1864
loads of garbage left. Sewer connections
forced as sanitary measures, streets graded
and ponds filled for the same purpose have
amounted to nearly 500, 600. A large num-
Der of wells have been condemned, the
water, after careful analysis. being proven
impure and unfit for drinking purposes.
The health officer, through his sharp agita-
ton of the question of the sanitary condi-
ton of the public schools, has had the sat
isfaction of the board of education follow
ing his instructions almost to the letter
and his relentless attack OH the custom
or business of baby farming has secured
for foundlings and the waits of the world
home such as has never before been
afforded them in this city, and he has taken
the initial step i'll an action that bids fair to
eventually crush out of existence the in
famous traffic of placing the lives of help
less infants in the hands of people who
take no more interest in their care further
than the money that they receive for their
services. At the aims house, just COM
pleted. there has been established depart
ment for these babes, and there is no longer
any excuse why the founding shouldn't
receive the most solicitous care at the hands
of competent matronS and misses. The
dumping grounds for night soil and garb-
bage, which have for several years been
located at the foot of Chestnut street, much
to the disgust and dissatisfaction of the
residents in that vicinity, have been
located on the west bank of the river near
Pigs Eye, below the city. New garbage
wagons have been purchased, being air
tight and allowing no obnoxious effiuvia to
escape while passing through the streets. A
hJus L duA AulAl 1Ol Ol
smallpox patients, will be completed
within the next six weeks, the contract
having been awarded. The system of vac
cinnation has been thorough. Five hundred
and seventeen persons have been vaccinated
at the health Office alone and the number
innoculated by the $50 physicians through
out the city will swell the total to the
thousands. 1t is stated that so thorough
has the work been prosecuted. that there is
not single pupil in the public or private
schools that has not complied with the law
III this respect and if small poX should show
its head in st. Paul, it would necessarily
soon die for want of food to live upon.
THE DEATH RATE.
The death rate during the fiscal wear end
ing Nov. 81, is one of which st. Paul NAV
well feel proud. According to the statis-
tics shown, there is not another CITY in the
world that has so low death rate as this.
Now York, Boston. Pittsburg St Louis,
Baltimore, Washington, Jacksonville, Lon
don, Liverpool, Geneva, Buenos. Ayres,
Dublin, Berlin, Bermuda and all cities in
the United States and foreign countries
have death rate much larger than st.
Paul, as is proven by the latest statistics.
This fact proves that Minnesota is destined
to be the sanitarinm of the world, and moth
ing could speak more emphatically in favor
OF ST. Paul than the figures given in the
table below, showing the comparative death