The morning news., 1889-03-15
FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH
Inspector Desvergers' Report to the
Citizens Sanitary Association.

Citizens Sanitary Association.
The public health committee of the Citi-
zsns Sanitary Association, held its weekly
meeting yesterday afternoon. The follow
ing members were present: DR.. J. c. Le-
Hardy, chairman, and Drs. Num- and Hum
mel DIR. j. B. Read, president of the
association, was also present by invitation.
| Inspector Desvergers submitted his regu-
lar report of daily inspections of market
produce, etc. The report stated that the
market-house. itself, is in an unsanitary
condition. He also reported that he had
not been able to again go over the land
east and west of the city since
last week, bur that he
had received information that the low
lands of the Central Railroad and Ocean
Steamship companies, and the warehouses
of the latter company, and of the Savannah
and Ogeechee canal, all remain in the same
unsanltary condition that they were in
when he reported in reference to them in
January.
The inspector also reported that Alder
man Falligant had informed him that the
city authorities would not now undertake
the drainage of the malarial sinks along
the Tybee railroad line; that the city's
financial condition is not sucl
as to enable it to carry out
other pressing sanitary measures
cient to meet the expense Of draining these
places during the present season; that the
exca Vations along the line of the Tybee
railroad, some of them, extend beyond the
city limits, and that it is question whether
the persons who now have the Tybee road
in hand can be compelled to open drains to
let the water out of these excavations, but
that he would investigate the subject, and
see what could be done in the matter.
The inspector also reported that the city
authorities have kept a considerable force
of laborers opening drains and letting off
water III the vicinity of the Lovers lane
settlement during the past week. He
reported that the cattle guard sinks of the
Savannah, Florida and Western railway at
the road crossings in the vicinity of the
city have been constructed without outlets
for water, and that these sinks are conse-
quently so many reservoirs of stagnant
water on the southern borders of the city;
that the side bitches along the track
of this railway, near the city, are in a very
unsanitary condition, holding stagnant
water and engendering malaria; that it
seems as if the authorities OF this company
as well as those of the other railway
corporations are utterly indifferent
as to the consequences to the inhabitants Of
Savannah Of creating malarial sinks at the
very threshold of their habitations when
ever they have occasion to need earth for
number Of low places and ponds in the
vicinity of of Kingsville and Ditmersville
in which are collections of sagnant water
in fact, all around that vicinity the lands
need draining, with the exception OF those
Of Col. Estill, which are well drained. The
proximity of these places to the city, taken
in connection with the fact that the prevail
ing summer winds come from u southern
direction, renders these stagnant water
nlacas exceedingly manacinp to the health
Of the inhabitants of the southern portion
Of the city.
Various matters relative TO drainage and
sanitation were discussed by the chairman
of the association and the committee in an
Informal manner after the adjourn
mentof the meeting, in which the re
tarding effect of the rainy weather upon
the drainage surveys in the vicinity of the
city. and the tardiness of the city authori-
ties in acting upon the matter of the Roch-
dale pail system for the eastern and western
sections Of the CITY we're referred to-