Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-26
THE SEWAGE.

Inc sewer OommlDelou mes oo~~y
morning, @. N. Wells in the chair, and
Msssrs. Hansen, Ferguson, Culver, Knox,
Workman, Sinsabaugh, Breed, Hamil-
ton, Frankenfeld, Judson and Brown
present.
The meeting was called at O'Clock,
but it was nearly 10 O'Clock when the
proceedings were opened by the Chair
man, who stated that the meeting was,
properly speaking, a meeting OF the sub
Committee on Utilization of Sewage.
He invited any of those who desired to
express their opinions on the subject to
do 30.
Mr.. J. A. Pirtle stated that he had q |
number of affidsvits of physicians relat- |
ing to the use OF sewage for irrigation.
He asked that he be allowed to read
them.
Ex-Msyor Workman moved that they
be read.
Mr.. Knox objected to the reading of
afidavits, on the ground that the COM
mission could not have the opportunity
of questioning the physicians, and thus
arriving at q correct idea of the matter.
Mr.. Breed moved that the commission
60 ahead and hear the testimony Of those
who were present.
Mr.. Sinsabaugh said that there were
witnesses present who had come long
way, and these should be heard first.
Mr.. Breeds motion was carried.
The first witness was II. N. Rankin,
who said that when he moved to Will
mington avenue his neighbors were all
using the sewage matter, and he was
surrounded on all sides by the sewage.
A little later he began to notice it's effects
on himself and his neighbors, especially
on widow who moved there with her
two boys. A few weeks later he at
tended the funeral of one of the
boys. Then the Pinney family was
taken down, and q young lady,
who had come from Stockton to see her
intended was taken down. She was sick
for four months, and had to be taken
away from the neighborhood before she
could get we'll. Mrs. Thomas was taken
sick, and came to town for treatment
Mr.. Chambers and Mrs. Burns were also
sick. Witness Wit. had suffered good
deal from headache. She could smell
the sewage when the wells were open,
but the smell was not 80 bad in the day
time. The sewage ran in front of his
place, and then he moved away, after
having lived there two years. The
widow had lived there about month be-
fore her son had taken sick, which was
ct first malaria and then fever. No river
water was used in the neighborhood and
the physicians in attendance on the sick
people said their sickness was caused by
the sewage. He thought there had been
too much irrigation and too little Guilt
walton. There was no sickness now, and
Vernon was remarkably healthy place.
E. N. Millsap who resided in Vernon
about mile north of the railroad testified.
He had reached the place about two years
ago and located on Wilmington avenue
where the sewage was used all around him.
He had been taken with typhoid fever in
September following his arrival, and his
physician had told him to leave the dis
trict if he wanted to get we'll. He then
moved and three days afterwards his
child was taken sick with scarlet fever.
He resides now on Vernon avenue, and
there were no cases except at Mrs Thomp-
sons. The sewer had run about 20 or 80
rods from his house, and lots were irri-
gated nearer to him than that. There
was an offensive smell at all times. He
used water from . well shout 80 yards
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on lands within 200 feet of the we'll.
George Hemus, residing on Central
avenue, said he had not used the sewer
water on his own land, but his neighbors
had used it all around him. He had
been taken sick with malarial trouble,
which eventually became typhoid fever.
His physician said this was due to the
sewage, which was used q little less than
q quarter of mile away. He was sick
for many months, and was confined to
his house for over month.
Mr.. Knox then moved that if any were
present who would like to testify on the
opposite side of the question, they be re-
quested to step forward. There was no
reply, and Mr.. Samuel G. Dryer, resid.
ing in the Nadeau Vineyard tract,
said that he had first lived
on Wilmington street. One of
his neighbours wells had to be
abandoned because the sewage got into
it. Five of the family were taken sick,
and he attributed this to the use of sew
age. The health of his own family has
not been affected. He complained of
the way the Cinnamon use sewage on
vegetables brought into market.
@. A. Blakesley, residing near Flor
ence, on Compton enue, said that the
Chinaman who rented the land adjoin-
ing his place used the sewage, and the
stencil was so great he had to close his
windows. Since his residence there he
had been sfaicted with sciatic rheuma-
tism, which he had never had before.
w. B. Akey, residing on the corner of
Vernon and Central avenues, said that
he got the full benefit of the
smell of the sewage, which was very
disagreeable. He gave the names of
several families, including the Camp
bells, Chambers, Fitzmeiers, McGreal,
Readings, Smiths, which had been at
hicted with sickness caused by the
sewage. He had not been affected him
self.
Mrs. J. B. Thompson, residing on
Compton avenue, said that she had
lived there q year and half and had
been sick last winter with malaria. Her
daughter is sick at the present time, and
the physicians state that she will not get
well unless she is moved away from the
neighborhood of the sewage.
John Gilmore, residing on Compton
avenue, testified that the sewage had not
injured his health, although it was used
on all sides of his place. The smell,
however, was very offensive.
Peter Young, recalled, said that there
was sickness in house only twenty. five
or thirty feet away from Mr.. Troops
house, and he had known of six or seven
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