The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-05-23
waco Sanitation.


DIR. Snead's exhaustive report to
the city council, read at their session
Thursday night, should awaken in
terest as well as lively apprehension
in the breast of every citizen of Waco.
lie reveals a state of things which
even the EXAMINER, with all the
watchful care it has yet been able TO
give the subject, was in partial ignor-
ancc of. Our able and devoted health
officer looks at the conditions under
which we are living here with the
keen glance of science, and bravely
lays bare the true situation and sug-
gests competent remedies. We have
no doubt that he is perfectly correct
as well in the statement of causes as
in remedies. The situation is created
by the policy of suffering the causes of
| water and air contamination to ac-
cumulate, and of course il follows
logically that to amend the situation
the removal of the causes is impera-
lively demanded. These are demon
strated truths, and 1t only remains
| for the council to devise ways and
ruea.rs do ss.~ -..ooo~s~-,- -,---l..- Sida
cutters and bitches must be made on
all the streets, and lot grades so ar.
ranged that storm water will flow
into the cutters, and then the gar
bage must be carried or carted of
daily. To this end the DOCTOR
suggestion as to the appointment o
IA city scavenger or scavengers, VIII,
are to be protected in the discharge
of their duties becomes n grand an,
overlapping necessity. We canno
have cleanliness unless the city in it
corporate capacity steps in and ell
forces competent laws regulating
even the most minute and apparentl
insignificant details of sanitation
Take the main business streets O
Waco and they reveal state OF thing
which absolutely beggars description
We know of no place on earth whic
is filthier than Waco, and there is no
city In Texas which is susceptible
: of easier or cheaper drainage. w
ought to be, instead of what we arr
: the dirtiest town in Texas, one of til
. cleanest.
One of the very first steps afte
providing for the competent cleanin
of the privies, is paved side gutter
ON the principal business thorough
o fares. A side ditch or gutter in tn
3 soft soil and with the streets unpave
% would only fill as fast as they wei
Q made. The only way they can |
3 handled at all is to pave them, an
: then force property holders or occ'
pants to clean. them or throw oil
: the accumulated earth ever
day. DIR. Snead's . paper ought
arouse the people of Waco II anythir
will. Here we have beautiful city
Ia eighteen thousand people, rich Gu
Z tured and progressive, and yet v
live daily surrounded by sanitary Co
diti0ns. which would shock Fiji
lander or camp of digger Indian
1t is situation which is absolute
disgraceful besides being very da
gerous. There are many people WI
o never pray until the devil comes, b.
!. they do pray like the very devil aft
his satanic majesty has showed b
mug In. There are men here to-df
i who are not in favor of putting Il
city TO a cent ofexpense in order
A improve its sanitary condition who
the cholera did come, would be wi
ling to submit to any sort of tax
r order TO stay its rayages.
\ BY neglecting further this impo
tant matter, the city council will
toying with, not only the lives of II
y nocent people, men women and chi
y dren, but with the commercial an
business interests of the entire con
@ munity. This is not the purpose ft
y which they were elected. On the col
trary they were chosen from anon
their fellow citizens TO protect the
}, interests. They must do that or the
G will be recreant TO the trusts repose
+ in them. That is all there is in Il
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