The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-08-23

force regulations requiring constantly
the strictest cleanliness everywhere
about the premises of every inhabitant.
A new ordinance is wanted now COM
pelling the adoption of dry earth sys-
tenn of deodorizing the fecal matter OF
each household, and the construction OF
tight closets OF the depth and size con-
venient to be readily and frequently
emptied into the carts of scayengers,
who should be paid by the city to con-
vey accumulations of house and stable
refuse outside the limits. Proper atten-
ton should be paid also to the inspection
ofmeats provisions, fruits and vegetables
and everything of an unwholesome ma
ture should be condemned and carted
away. Then there should bea competent
and thoroughly reliable Board of Health
composed of The estphysicians and the
| most practical sanitarians available,
who should have general oversight OF
the health department, including the
quarantining of infectious diseases and
regulations to be observed by those in
charge of afflicted persons, and this
board should be vested with power to
enforce its own DEGREES under proper
penalty for refusal. Already our sys-
tenn ofwater pipes covers an extent OF
fifteen miles in length-sufficient to fur
nish any ordinary city of the same
number of inhabitants with an abund-
ant water supply, but we must
| pay extra for cur magnificent distances
and the benefits of good water should be
distributed as widely as possible. Then
the old wells, with, their old oaken
buckets, could be discarded and filled
up, and all the people might assure
themselves that their drinking water
was free from the percolations of cess
pools at least. These are some of the
necessities. To carry out such sug-
| gestions, I am aware, would cost money,
but it should be remembered that Salt
Lake is no longer village, but great
and thriving metropolis; and despite
the efforts of an urprincipled press to
obstruct her progress, she is destined to
become a rich and . powerful city,
ranking in importance, magnifcence
and thrift with any in the world. Her
citizens, however, need not expect to
keep abreast of the times without ex-
tensiYe improvements, which can be
met in no other way than by
extended resources for revenue. A
prominent citizen, identified with the
city from its incorporation, who already
pays more taxes in year than all the
little clique CT transient agitators who
seek to retard the material advancement
of the commonwealth put together,
said to the writer recently that he was
willing his taxes should be doubled or
trebled, if only the city could shoot
ahead with improvements. But the
municipal guardians have sought to
make the burdens easy upon the peo-
pie, believing in the old maxim, "out
of debt, out of bondage" and they
would be severely criticised by their
constituency if too great deviation
from their former course were to be
made in the near future. The regula-
tons proposed above are simple and
sufficient for the present, and would be
found to promote the health of the peo-
pie to degree which would entitle our
fair city, not only to the credit of being
healthful as any and the chief inland
city of the west, but with the concomi-
tants in the shape of increa sed hotel
accommodations and other facilities for
pandering to the afflicted of all nations,
who will say that in the brief span of a
decade or so she may not achieve the
distinction of being one of the greatest
of the worlds sanitariums?