The sun., 1889-12-07
TO ABArE THE Stable NUrsANCE
The Proposed Action or the Health Board
In the Matter.


Health Commissioner Bryant Of the COM
mittee appointed by The Board to investigate
the stable nuisance. has submitted a report
which will probably be acted unon at the next
meeting. The report comprises the results OF
an exhaustive investigation. and there is little
doubt that the important recommendations
which are made will be adopted by the Board.
DR.. Bryant read the report last evening at
meeting OF the section on health OF the New
York Academy of Medicine.
The handling and disposal OF stable refuse
as at present conducted DR.. Bryant regards as
serious offence against public health and
comfort. There are in the city below l3jth
street about 60.000 horses, and about 1,20O
loads OF refuse are removed daily from tho
stables which they occupy. The ownership OF
these horses Dr. Bryant divides into throe
clases-those who keep horses Tor pleasure at
stabiing expense o! t25 TO s35 per month for
sach animal: those who use horses In their
business and who pay $50 to S25 monthly for
keeninE each animal and poor men who make
which they own and which cost them tl4 to tlS
per month each. The sanitary adv antRRes OF
aggtogating tho horses in big stables are un-
doub ed. for thoreby the nun Dor Of stables is
much Ieducod. and sanitary rules can be more
systemnticnl!y followed; Ihn present method
TO the level Of the street and thence into an
nEen cart; wherein 1t is carried to eeow. Tho
torty or tiity minutes before it is dumped at
the dock. That the process is n serious public
offence and nuieance neods 10 demonstration
lno effects OF the pres ent method arc not tent
porary for not only IL tho clothing OF occu-
pHnis OF the stables and tho upholstery Of car
riases impreRnated will fou GHscs. but even
nished.
The business OF removing and disrosing OF
stable refuse now gives employment TO about
4lu men and 100 carts. Each cart carries rom
;a two 9 six loads daily. Tho capital employed
including years wages Of The laborers en-
gagged ~ sl.7! ner day, is about s32c.0Uo. The
purchasers OF tho manure are the farmers In
lhe nearest country districts. They receive it
either loose or In bales but very little bsiing
is done as Yet.
DR.. Bryant discusses at some length the
elect of baling upon the fertilizinR properties
OF the product he concludes that the process
does not injure tho commercial value in the
least. but rather increases II by reason OF con-
Chapdloi Of Columbia College, and gives The
results suits, Of SONG recent tests which justify his
conclusions. The process OF balinR should he
welcomed by the farmer he concludoa ior 1t is
both mora cleanly and more convenient. 1t
VIII ena9ie ~, the ia,mer who brings load Of
or tert!l !liIer in the same wagon.
, The keepers Of all large stables DR.. Bryant
tain the necessary apparatus for baling refuse
before removal. The poor owner OF one or two
work horses cannot be required to do this He
should he rcnulred to storo his refuse IN cheap
barrels to be closed and removed when filled
hv the doaler in the product. who shonld return
the empty barrels. It cannot be argued that It
prise which gathers rags in the gutter would
solve this phase of the problem II tho dealers
shSpld hon at first decline TO adopt such plan.
The committee recommends the adoption by
the Health Board OF a resolution requesting un
amendment OF the sanitary code which shall
forbid after Nav ]. 1890, the removal Of stable
refuse except in bales and covered barrels and
under such regulations as the Health Board
may impose.