The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-14
THE MARKET IN BAD SHAPE.
The Building Greatly in Need OF Bet
ter Sanitary ArranR ements.

The Building Greatly in Need OF Bet
ter Sanitary Arrangement
Inspector Desvergers of the Citizens
Sanitary Association, in his weekly report
Of food produce in the market during the
week ending last night, reports the average
quality as follows: Dressed beef, dressed
mutton, dressed poultry, live fowls, smoked
sausage, meat buildings. green vegetables,
dried vegetables, average fair; picked beef,
crabs, shrimp, CLAIMS and fresh fruit, aver
age good; dressed pork, fresh fish, fresh
sausage and corned beef, average inferior.
The inspector reports that public COM
plant has become 50 clamorous in reference
TO the unsanitary condition of the market
and It's surroundings, and the long delay to
remedy it, that he has been instructed by
the committee on public health of the asso-
citation to bring the matter officially
directly to the attention of the mayor as
chairman of the board of sanitary commits
sioners, with the hope that the city council
may be induced to provide the market
committee with means to remedy the
unsanitary condition.
Complaints are made daily to the inspec-
tor by stall rent rs and visitors to the mar
ket Of offensive odors from the ceSspools
on the first floor of the market house; the
broken and filthy conditions of the pave
shops in the basement, and the extremely
offensive odors from some of the old meat
boxes in the vault; the keeping of live fowls
in cOops III the vaults during the hot
weather; the absence of water closets and
the filthy substitutes for these conveniences.
he reported also that complaints are in
creasiug in reference to the condition of the
streets around Market square, particularly
st. Julian street, on the west of the market,
q of Off
and fOulsmeling mud collect in the hol-
lows of the street and remain too long I'M
der the action of the sun before they are re-
moved.
The inspector has been instructed to
bring to the atte1 ton of the Sanitary Com
mission the condition of the Baltimore
steamship wharves. Complaints have come
to the inspector of offensive odors ema-
mating from under these wharves, and he
reports that he made an inspection of the
wharves and fund them in u dangerously
unSanitary condition. The floor being de-
cayed and broken, a large quantity of
waste grain has fallen through the openings,
and has collected beneath the wharves,
where it is rotting aud mixing with trash
and mud, and sends forth an odor as often
Slve as hilge water.
In reference to drainage the inspector re-
ported that the county commissioners have,
during the past week, dug very important
ditch just above the junction of the Au-
gusta and Louisville roads and which is of
luestlmable sanitary benefit to that section
of the country, The ditch drains thor
oughly chain Of ponds and old brick yard
excavations and the Central railroad bur
row pits on the south side of its road bed.
The digging of this ditch has rendered it
au easy and economical matter for the rail
road company 30 drain the pits aud low
places on the opposite of its road bed by
opening a similar ditch on that side and
constructing a culvert to connect it with
the opposite ditch. He also reported the
Springfield plantation low lands in as good
conditions as such lands dependent upon
open drains could be expected to be in after
the recent heavy rainfall. He also reported
that the convict gang was now engaged
draining the ponds TO the southeast Of the
city.
The inspector further reported that on
last Tuesday he saw number of white boys,
aged from 10 to A. swimming in the Bilbo
canal between the shell road and the rail-
way track of the Standard Oil Works.