The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-02
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
THE cITY's BAD PLACES.
Sanitary Inspector Desvsrgers Points
Out Some of Them.


Sanitary Inspector DesvsrRers Points
Out Some Of Them.
Inspector Desvergers' last report TO the
committee on public health Of the Citizens
Sanitary Association says that the city
market house has not yet improved in its
sanitary condition. The plumbing work
has not yet advanced sufficiently TO afford
water facilities for properly cleansing the
floors and stalls after market hours. Butch
ers, who occupy stalls in the western
portion OF the building, COM
plain Of injury to meat on
the stalls on Saturday afternoons. there
being nothing to relieve the intense heat of
the SUMS rays, which penstrats the glass
lights on the western gable of the roof and
strike the stalls in that portion Of the mar
ket house, except a canvas curtain which
has been hung in the center of the gabel.
and which effects no protection from the
SIMS rays, except 70 the passage way on
that side Of the basement. 1t would re-
quire but little time and involve
but a small outlay to restain the
glass from which the colorinR originally
put upon 1t has been long worn of.
There is bad break in the pavement
inside of the railing on the west side of the
market house, which has been there for some
length Of time, jeopardizing the safety of
pedestrians. The garbage from the build
ing continues nuisance to the square
around 1t, and the manner in which it is
collected and removed has become a matter
OF general Reproduction.
In reference to the drainage around the
city the inspector says: There are no i'm
portant drainage operations on the part of
the city force now going on. Its work is
simply confined to cleaning out of.old bitches
and the stirring of the sedimentary deposit
In BIlbo canal in order to loosen 1t SO that the
outward dow or water may carry it to the
river. The creek known as BradleY's creek.
behind the Savannah, Florida and Western
railway whsrves, and which is the property
OF the company, is kept in a very bad con-
dition. 1t is INSTRUCTED with timber and
drift wood to such an extent as
to seriously impair drainage bv
means of the Jones canal. which
empties into it. Continued Improvement Is
being made in the sanitary condition of the
Central railroad and Ocean Steamship
Company's property west Of the city. The
old canal basin, however, is simplifying its
crop of weeds and water vines. A force OF
city laborers 10 at work cleaning out the
inner drains of the Springfield plantation.
The grounds there are now very dry. The
ponds and low places Immediately south
of the city have all been filled up by the
convict gang; but on the Minis lands on
the south weStern border OF the CITY are a
number Of old brick yard pits containing
stagnant water. The inspector has NOT
called the attention of the county commits
sioners to these places, because their abate-
ment could effect no sanitary relief TO
that section as long as the butcher
pen and slaughter house nuisances
are allowed upon the same lands. A por-
ton of the convict gang, under the imme-
date supervision of Chief Shuman, is pro-
crossing rapidly and efficiently with a sys-
tenn Of drains connecting with the DeRenne
canal. The other portion of the convict
gang under Supt. Allen is now well into the
Minis swamp.
The inspector also reported that COM
plants OF the offensiveness of the COW
stables in the city are increasing, and that
there is complaint against droves of cattle
being driven through the streets.