The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-02-25
GOOD ENOUGH.
Some Sanitary Measures Proposed
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10 the EDITOR Of TnE HERALp:

To the Editor OF THE HERALD:
Health authorities all unite in urging
cleanliness as the great preventive
against cholera. While we believe that
the cholera germ propagates in the
h1man subject quite Independently of
9Th. and that its control and suppress
sion depends upon other means and
methods than those which insure clean
illness. We are not disposed to lessen
the force of the appeals being made
upon all of our sea-board municipalities
for domestic and general sanitary
cleansing; and it certainly is neces-
sary to begin at this early day to urge
upon our authorities and citizens gener-
ally to place our own city (inland
though it be) in as good condition
BEAUTIFULLY as it is possible for it to be.
To begin with then, it would be ad-
visable to order all owners of cesspoOls
along the thickly populated portions of
Main Street te thoroughly clean and
disinfect those receptacles, and the
vast amount of slush manure on Main
Street and on few public thorough
fares leading thereto should be scraped
into piles and carted away while moist
and net be allowed to be turned into
dust and blown into our faces to fill our
lungs and poison our circulation gener-
ally. Then, as soon as warm weather is
here and dusty roads come into fashion,
by all means and al any expense let US
have our principal streets kept well
sprinkled; and every Saturday spent by
the chain gang, or more than one day
in each week ii necessary, spent by the
entire working street force of the city in
cleaning up these most public thorough
fares, filling up the holes with good
gravel not clay, aud in picking up the
cobble stones from all the streets gener-
ally.
Then the board OF health Of Salt Lake
City (which we have not nor ever had)
or those officers who do something in
that line, should personally see that the
premises of every citizen be put in
sound, healthy condition as soon as
warm weather begins to show signs OF
approach. We speak advisedly, says
an eminent physician, when We state
that the sickness and death rate of any
city is greatly augmented by street
filth. The dust is the carrier to our
houses, and to ou- throats and lungs, of
the germs of diphtheria and other low
forms of disease which require only
warmth and moisture to propagate with
the greatest virulence. OF course we
know our streets are not paved, but
there is plenty of good gravel within
easy reach of the city with which the
most constantly Travelled streets could
be kept graded and in good repair, and
there Is great plenty of water or will
be soon in the canal and in the city
mains so that such constantly used
streets as South, East, and West Temple
Streets, First and Second South Streets,
! the State Road as far south as Seventh
South Street, should be kept we'll
| sprinkleds so that the travelling public
will not be subjected to the danger and
annoyance of this dust nuisance as they
have been heretofore. It may seem q
little premature, Mr.. Editor, to talk OF
| dust when there is sea of slush on the
same streets; but few words timely
| spoken maybe will draw the attention
of our honored Council in time to have
the matter attended, to before the sea-
son of dust that will come passes away.
| Last summer, many citizens on First
South Street petitioned to have the
street spinkled as far east as Sixth East,
some time in June, and the Council
ordered the prayer of the petitioners to
| be granted, but nothing was done for
the sufferers along that dusty avenue
until the following September.
Mf. HERALD, do not wish to tire you
on the subject OF sanitation, but if you
take this kindly, you may hear from
me again. SALISA.