St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-20
rr& ssoAgsD OF HEALTH.
81 Eae;ds "a lively Meeting with a
yecgfsae Apuendage.

IL Eae;sis Lively Meeting with an
Executive Appendage.
The board of health met last night and
the meeting was ali animated one. The
Minnesota Transfer company was repre-
scented by ID. NJ. Robbins. who asked that a
sewer be cut froln the transfer to the river,
iii order to drain the cesspools. that as they
now stood they were source of impure
air and offensive smells that caused great
deaf OF complaint in that neighborhood. 1t
WAS the opinion OF several members of the
board that It's the Transfer company would
receive tile greater part OF the benefit from
the sever it should stand large part of
the expense Of its construction. The mat
ter was discussed at length and finally re-
ferred to the city engineer for investigation
and an estimate of cost and to ascertain
what part OF the expense the Transfer COM
panY was willing to pay.
Mr.. Donaldson of the st. Paul Odorless
EXcavatng company was present and sew
eral complaints were reported as having
been made at the health Office of Over-meas-
urement of vaults. Several of the plaintiffs
were mentioned and the health inspectors
were present and subjected to severe
catechism by DR.. Jones and City Attorney
Murray. Mr.. Donaldson averred that the
health inspectors were
MAKING OvER-AIEAsUREMENTs
in the cases reported at the health office, as
they were prejudiced against him and wanted
to make trouble for him. He said, ''There
are some of these men who are making q
tool of DR.. Jones, unknown to him. and
can prove it," He claimed that he had dis
covered cases where the men had made
ver-measurement of vaults, and had mott
fed them that hereafter when an error of
that kind was discovered the wages of the
men making it would be subject to dockage,
and in several cases he had done so, but he
found that the order was reacting against
the company, as the men would make
under-measnrement for fear of getting over
and having to pay the penalty. He didn't
intend that the people should be taken adj
vantage of by his employees.
Dr.. Jones said that he had heard rumors
that his inspectors were prejudiced against
Mr.. Donaldson, and had told them repeat
edly not to try to pay off any personal
grudge through their connection with the
health department, and they had as often
denied that they had any personal feeling
against Mr.. Donaldson. He thought it
would be good idea for the city council to
appoint one inspector to measure these
vaults together with an inspector employed
by the Odorless company; this would pre-
vent any difference of measurement be-
tween the health department and the OdOr-
less company, and consequently
oBvIATE COMPLAINTS.
Mr.. Donaldson agreed to the idea and the
plan seemed to meet the approval of the
board.
Mr.. Murray expressed himself as be-
lieying that as winter was coming OH the
force of inspectors should be cut down,
there not being work enough to keep them
busy. DR.. Jones objected to this, as sewer
connections were constantly being forced
during the winter, and the department was
now in good working order and the system
shouldn't be broken up.
On motion of Aid. Minea the matter was
laid over until the next meeting, and in the
meantime the matters will be considered.
DR.. Jones asked that Meat Inspector
Lamb be kept on the force during the
winter and everybody seemed to be in favor
of so doing.
At this point the board went into execu-
tive session and the reporters were locked
out, but from wads of conversational at
mosphere that oozed through the keyhole it
was learned that the pest-house matter was
being discussed, but it was impossible to get
the drift of the argument, and the members
of the board refused to divulge after the ad-