The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-08-01
INVITING an Epidemic,
Two Deaths Directly chargsa-
Bile to fostering Filth
HAULED OUT FROM THIS CITY
TO Fields North, along the Rlyer-A
Serious State Of AnaIrs, for
Which Somebody must Ac.
cept the Responsibility,

Yesterday in the meeting Of the Board
Of County Commissioners, Mr., Koch,
the member from Washington district,
called attention to the practice Of haul
ing nightsoil and garbage from the city
to fields and gardens between the north
end Of the city and Glenn's run. He
stated that the mass Of stuff thus de.
posted there had caused serious sickness
and even death, After an interesting
discussion 1t was ordered that an instant
stop be put to the practice,
Yesterday morning, before this action
had been taken by the Board, Commits
sioner Koch stopped two men from
hauling loads Of night.soilto the locality
referred TO, The practice has been car
RED on so long that II has become a seri,
GUS nuisance, and Mr., Koch was COM
PEELED to put a stop to 1t on his own
6ity Health officer Garrison yester,
day visited the locality which has sui.
ieTed. Recently the INFELLIaENcER has
referred repeatedly to this practice Of
depositing hlth on fields, and In his last
communication to Council urging the
Importance OF an additional Crematory,
Dr., Garrison prophesied that the time
when the County Health authorities
would stop this was not far distant, It
proved TO be nearer than he thought,
DR.. Garrison said last evening that he
had made a careful inspection OF the
place where night soil haulers have been
depositing stuff. On I. ]. Garden h.
Sons place he found all the filth in two
closed watts, and everything was clean
and wholesome. These watts were filed
last Saturday, and on that day the
Messrs, Garden notified DR.. Garrison In
writing that hereafter no filth would be
allowed to DO deposited on their place.
At George Dusch's gardens, adjoining
the Garden place, q different state Of
affairs was found. Mr., busch has q
tenant named 0dell, who lives between
the pike and the Pewiky railroad. Some
time ago u child Of Mr.. 0dell's died Of
typhoid fever, Lately the father also
died, and another man, a brother Of
Odell's, ia now lYikg Ill with the same
disease. DIR. Garrison attributes the
diseaseto the accumulation OF filth nOar,
as did also the attending physician, 80
that this maniiestly wrong pfactic1 10
directly responsible for two deaths and
Invites an epidemic. irdnGW
0dell's family get their wAtaiffom a
pump about thirty yards from the house,
About tho same distance from the house,
and nearly as close 70 the well, Is q huge
nile Of manure and night soil, about
sixty feet in diameter. The emana.
lions from this poison the air, and
the disease germs, may thus enter
the system, or the poisoned
water may percolate through the
sandy soil into the well and poison the
water. AT any rate, there is no doubt
that the disease and death in the 0dell
house Is traceable to this reeking mass
Of corruption, and somebody must &C.
cent the moral, II not legal, responsl.
bitity, Not far from this mass Of stuff
are two oblong piles OF rottiug garbage,
about sixteen feet long by ten wide,
which are also making the air foul, and
Il not disseminating disease germs, at
least filing the mir with the foulness on
which disease thriyes.
This outlet for the City's accumulation
OF filth OF all kinds being cut of, as II
should have been long ago, the problem
what TO do with the garbage and night
soil becomes even more seriouH than It
hrs been. II the present Council aud
brilliant Health Committee cannot find
means 10 erect another Crematory, pre-.
sumably the filth now killing the resi-.
dents north OF the city will have to
be allowed TO accumulate and
rot in town, spreading pestilence and
death among the citizens OF Wheeling
instead OF among those in the country.
The threatened epidemic Of %diphtheria
In North Wheeling might be taken as q
lesson. II not, 1t is safe to say that II
the present authorities are unequal to q
solution Of tho problem, the people will
and Others who are, when.the condition
Of affairs existing up the river Is brought
tothetr own doors.