The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-29
WHAT IT COSTS THE CITY.
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS A DAY
FOR SAINT ALTON.

Seventy Barrels of Lime, Nearly a
Thousand Bottles of Chloride, and
Four Barrels of Copperas and Car
bolic Acid Used Daily-Keeping the
City Clean at a Minimum Cost.
The extra sanitation of the city is costing
about 800 day. aud it cost even more
than that before the work was systematizad
This was done by City Clerk Frank Rebarer,
who, after two weeks of close application,
was relieved from the extra burden it i'm
posed upon him, and it is now under the di-
rection of City Marshal Wade.
At first about 100 hands were employed
in sanitary work, but it was soon found
that the same amount of work could be done
by forty men, and the extra sanitary force
has been reduced to this number. OF course
this does not include the police inspectors.
With the present reduced force every place
in the city is visited and disinfected with
lime and other disinfctants at least once
week.
1000 BARRELS OF LIME.
Since the work of extra sanitation began
the outlay for disnfectants has been large,
and a great deal has been used. Clerk
Rebarer estimates thai in the past three
weeks the following is fair estimate of
the disinfectants u ed: Two thousand bar
rels of lime, costing $1.25 per barrel, and
twenty-five barrels Of Platt's chloride
Tho barrels contain an average of forty
seven gallons of chloride, which costs 90
cents per gallon. 1t is diluted ia the pro-
portion of one part of the chloride to four
parts of water and bottled. Mr.. Rebarer
estimates that 1000 bottles of this mixture
are used daily, aud % 500 bottles since the
extra sanitation was adopted. There have
been ten barrels of carbolic acid used
This cost 80 cents per gallon, and
is diluted in the same proportion as the
chloride. Not as much confidence is placed
in the acid as a disinfectant, Tests have
been made of the chloride, and it has been
found to be an excellent deodorizer and dis
infectant. One hundred and fifty barrels
OF copperas, costing 50 per barrel, have
been used in deodOi izing vaults and the
Bilbo canal. A solution is made Of the
crystals, and it is used in a liquid state.
CoPPERAs IN BILBo CANAL
The waters of Bilbo canal, the receptacle
for sewage, are kept odorless by the cop
peras solution, and the waters are green by
contact with the copperas, which thor
oughly commingles with the polluted water
of the canal. 1t is emitted in at the head
of the canal, where it can communicate
with and deodorizs the water to the mouth.
or food gates
1t is estimated that the extra sanitation
requires daily seventy barrels of lime, $50
bottles of chloride, onehalr barrel of car
bolic acid and 81 barrels of copperas The
lime is kept in store house on Bryan and
Barnard streets, and the disinfectants in the
city exchange vault. Citizsns are gratuit-
ously supplied with disinfectants upon ap-
plication.
Outside of the extra sanitation is the
oderless excavating corps, which, by order
of DIR. Duncan, of the sanitary board, is
using the bi-chloride of mercury in the
vaults. 1t is believed TO be the most eifec-
tual of all the known disinfectants. The
deorderzng and removing of the night soil
from the vaults is being looked after by
Supt. Cleary.