St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-30
THE ST. PAUL DAILY GLOBE FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY 80, 1855

fourteen years If they do not attend them.
The speaker advocated the scattering of
sanitary circular intelligence broadcast in the
city.
pr. Dana thaught the enemy to sanitary
measures in high and low classes was igno-
rance. Few persons in sumptuous houses
knew the danger or safety of their
plumbing. A literature must be created on
sanitary needs for general distribution. Gull
pable indifference and ca~relessness, loose
throwing about of Stops and garbage by don't
care people, is another enemy. They must
be reached by moral s~uasiou, and if they
do not heed this the law must be enforced
against them. There were streets in this
city where one could not go without holding
his nose, and where out-houses backing up on
the same filed the air with fetid odors. To
successfully cope with this class of popula-
lation a health officer must have a power
untrammeled by politics and independent of
city or village councils. He suggested the
publication for free distribution in this city,
and especially in the households of the hum
bic, a circular pamphlet containing sanitary
information that would teach the occupants
TOW to live and TO keep their premises free
from filth and garbage, and consequent dis
ease and coutagion. He thought ii the press
and pulpit would awaken the more intelli-
gent TO their sanitary needs
this reading would reach those
who never connected cause and effect, and
the two instrumentalities would serve to
make the city sweet, wholesome and safe.
DR.. Hewett ~recounted the extensive work
lone by the state society in disseminating
sanitary Information by tract throughout the
state in the thirteen years of its existence.
Minnesota stood in the advance guard
in sanitary work to day and while
the movement had encountered
its real opposition from educated
men and women right along, the humber
classes in the country had given it counten-
ance and help. While it had been shown that
he It'll law provisions could only be enforced
and carried into effect by health boards,
what was wanted most now was educated
men and women to come up to help the
movement and create a public sentiment to
push it on, which must be supported by every
educational and religious elemsnt of society.
DR.. Murphy was ashamed of st. Paul to-
night for no~n-attendauce upon this council
by its citizens. Down stairs a fellow was trying
to talk a $50, 600 appropriation out of the leg
~islatoTs, the farmers we're learning how to
make money out of cattle raising from a lee
Az " ilAG hNAS a. q " Va AONIIIo duoCl
fshly studying how they could preserve the
public health of the state to the dctriment of
their pocket books. We must have pamphlets
to distribute aFout aud educate the people of
st. Paul. On nearly every lot in the city
there was a house as well as filth enough to
sink a nation. DR.. Hewett had done a
great work, but he couldn't cover
the whole state single handed,
and the intelligent citizens of st.
Paul had to get up and dust to keep the COM
ing epidemic Of cholera at bay. In the one
matter of plumbing people did not know how
to protect themselves from disease in their
own homes, and they must have the pamph-
let DR.. Dana recommended to learn how to
do this. and he could be drawn on to help
give them this knowledge.
Rev. Mr.. Forbes said he preached to his
people to be clean as an essential of pietY,
for he believed that cleanliness was a part OF
Godliness. He declared that preachers as "A
rule were in the advance ground to
try and make this world more like heaven.
He believed that scores on scores of people
were dying before God wanted them TO die,
and he had stopped talking about the "mys-
FERROUS dispensations of Providence"when So
many deaths were due to the dirt, filth, sin
and transgression of the laws of Nature.
He believed the right sanitary sentiment ex-
listed in st. Pau, and was hearty to cooperate
in every means to awaken it and bring it
into action all along the line.
Mr.. Hodgson gloried in the name Of
''crank" in the sanitary movement which
meant life, enterprise and progression in the
so much needed work. Mr.. Miles. Of Min
n~eapolis, gave an interesting account of how
one of the out lying settlements there as an
incorporated village improvement society
disposed OF its garbage, the accumulation of
the garbage of 10 houses and debris of sixty
horses being taken off every day in the
week for SO per annum for a house and
twenty-five cents a month for a
horse. In nine months from
last April to Jan. 1, 1850 loads
or this accumulation were carted off, a sur
prising amount Of garbage for so small a viii
lage.
DR.. Hewett warmly recommended this
plan for getting rid of garbage in residence
SECTIONS of a city as well as villages, and win
shortly publish in a society pam phlet a minute
description Of how the village i'm provement
plant referred to is conducted.
He further said that the whole danger to
st. Paul from cholera was its priyy vaults
disconnected with sewers, and its citizens
should get at the back Of DR.. Hoyt and clean
them out in the premises Of both rich and
poor, without delay and without missing one
in the city limits, and have earth closets sub
stituted in their place.
Steps were taken among the st. Paul gen
tlcmcu present to call 4 general meeting to
consider and carry into effect sanitary mea-
sures IN the city at an early date.