The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-10-11

AZ sncb nm elevation that the bottom oil
the vault Is higher than tho dwelling
Back Of the house is stone wall which
holds the hill from coming down. on
the face Of this stone wall
THE SHINY FILTH
from above can be seen oosing through
the cracks and seeping from tho porous
sand stones, Allalong Coal street Tue
same conditions exist, The vaults are
nearly all filled to q level with Tue
ground. and In many places the earth is
6anked I'M TO preyent the contents from
running oil In liquid state. The earth
seems saturated with filth, and the odor
piycn oil by the vaults and their con-
tents Is horrible. AT another Goal street
resldenCe where the disease existed a
isw days ago, three me still abundant
sluna 10 indicate the reason. The vault
IA located In the high ground above the
LoIrrse. All the liquid filth from the
boTsehold ends It's way to corner
under stone wall near the houRe. The
odor OF tue back yard Is simply terrible,
and one accustomed TO even decent sur
roundings is ut once impressed with the
iouluess Of the locality.
At another place visited, the stench
could be noticed twenty-five yards away
from It's source, aud an investigation
showed that q stream Of filth, which
should be sewage, Is allowed 70 run in
a payed gutter TO the street. This gnt'
tor carried not only the ordinary waste
water from the house but the liquid
Gllh which oozes through the earth
from high ground vault.
IN MANY PLACES
garbage and ashos, mixed 10 about equal
proportions, lie about the back YARDS ~
iernenting piles. fostering filth OF all
varieties Is visible everywhere, land
many OF the houses need cleansing in.
side as much as do the yards. All
through the upper part OF town where
the back lots are higher than the first
floors otthe houses, these bad conditions
exist, except where the residents have
taken the precapllon to connect their
premises with the sewer in tho proper
manner, and hPYo enough regard for
decency to have their vaults cleaned.
Among the old time tumble down
tenem1snS piope''inSU 1n v s ints ers or,
Is lnussoi,oIo.tn;T S Gn eUJ my and
as many ~ ha,i 'J uHa '" aos Sa ,nS" ba saiJ
oufleu NIuits, Inu s '"0 VHsTI MNs ~ ~
gravel and night soil, with the latter in
the asCendenCy. At one place visited by
the Health Officer and reporter, the
aouseu ,h MaS'' ''O ,ao shV . MmS and
iloWs an,ouRm MVI Ij,nhon o1 ~ a, G ;m'
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spn4 pa,..Sies VI '' anli I.ne 'u1n sos,r
then h'scT a1q In nna M sasa,d po ,,osa
e,noueI W loso .IIe'I eMM testu,V, p"so
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etgi S'S 0@Ses oyLaT n5nn ,hsm NJ, WITH In
ieA'!n iiceI ioJnJu upVn , snIn WILL VII
tne Eerstt,G iS noHuue'snVe WHICH eopeS
itom iauii''uf''y'
AT WASHINGTON SCHOOL.
At the Washington school, Miss Har.
per, the principal, informed the reporter
that during tho past few weeks styeral
children haye appeared in school with
palpable symptoms Of the disease. One
child came to school with her throat tied
up In fannels, and another with the I'm.
tnistakable odor which accompanies
diphtheria, on her breath. Que OF these
children was sent home at noon on the
I'd OF this month, aud died on tile 9th.
Parents send their children 10 school
while IN a dangerous state, either
through Ignorance OF CarOlGssness, aud
II Is impossible for the teachers 10 prop
erly discriminate, and keep out, the chill
dren from districts where the disease
prevails.
Health ollicer G9rFigonn gave 1t as his
oplnloh .nat , lne sGiioot shSllG pe closed
~ ohGe ahu KEEP closed w all signs, Of
the disease are eliminated from the dis:
trict. ~ ADVISES no people to keep
theif children from Washington school,
ana lnItner no! 70 allow Ihem 10 asso'
ciate lhalscrimlna1ely with other child.
rem on tue street.
Section oil an ordinance entitled,
N hS ,sS Ull i aga Kegistratio1, Of
peas1s ahu Dullals' says ~ shall be
he H4W o eyety person acting asa
physlGian wtthlh th9 CITY TO report
promptly TO the Health Officer, Or Id his
absence, 70 we mayor every case Of small
pox, yarialolu, Asiatic cholera or other
tormIaao zee, contagious disease which he
VI Us,s SS arlig, az Ss'ei' nh,.,o,., Any
eity who shall iaii 10 mSEs W rona., 'G ~
such disease within twslve In r,SVsS ii II
forfeit aud pay 10 thls cily n Gos 81 S' mnt
iess than 81 nor more ihdp Sqt for " n,, aUS
surh oiTense and t6o COST IN NJ r.n vSS,!
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