The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-08-23
AN IMPORTANT COMMUNICATION

To be Presented 10 Council Next Week,
The InRdsquatsuess or the Cromatory,
At the next meeting Of Council Health
Officer Garrison will send in for that
body's consideration yoluminous com.
munlcation, showing In detail tho work
that has been dono in this city In the
line OF cess pool cleaning from March l
to August 10. This report will give the
number aud street. or alley, OF each
place when this work has been done.
The following shows the number Of
places on streets, where the pools have
been cleaned;
Water street, 10; Main, S3; Market,
100; Chapline, so; Eotf, 3S; Jacob, So ;
Wood, AZ; McColiOch, so; Wetzel, 10;
Baltimore, 4 Charles, Z; Elliott, | Nor.
row, l0i Byron, 2; Coal, s; Maryland, 8 /;
Indiana, 4; Union, Il Caldwell, l High,
2; Front, 2; Zane, 10; Pike, 4 Penn, A !;
Vermont, ! /; Broadway, 10; Virginia, 10;
Huron, 9; York, s; Palo Alto, j; Eliza.
beth, l; Ohio, l Kentucky, l Fifth, s;
Sixth, /; Tenth, /; Eleventh, 15;
Twelfth, II Thirteenth, l3; Fourteenth,
16; Fifteenth, IA; Sixteenth, "a; Seven.
teenth, II; Eighteenth, II; Nineteenth,
Il Twentieth, Z; Eighth, /; Twenty.tirst,
! /; Twenty.second, 2; Twenty.third, 81;
Twenty-fourth, [; Twenty-fiith, 4; TWEEN.
ty'sixth, 2; Twenty.seventh, 4 Ninth, | (;
Twenty.ninth, A Thirty.frst, /; Thirty
fourth, 2; Thirty.seventh, 9; Thirty.
third, 0; Forty-fith, /.
A glance over the above statement Is
enough TO convince any one who knows
any thing about the city that nothing
like thorough work has been done. The
total number Of pools cleaned during
the time specified, has been 772, OF the
ninety.two streets in the city, work has
been done On only sixty.one, leaving
thirty.one streets, the cess pools along
which, have not been cleaned out, pre-.
sumably, in the last nine months or year;
and OF the forty.one alleys, work has
been done on only twetty.one, leaving
twenty alleys that have not received the
attention they should.
The approximate number OF cess
pools and vaults remaining to be'clean.
ed is S,7SS. OF the 772, for which per-
mits to clean were granted, large
number were only partially cleaned
out.
The point the Health Officer desires to
make, and 1t Is strong ono too, is that
the present crematory Is entirely made.
quate 10 consume the contents of all
these vaults. 1t is at present, and has
been for the last five months, working
steadily up to It's full capacity, and In
that time has only consumed the con.
tents OF 772 vaults, as against 3,7SS that
should be cleaned; while, as every one
knows, its consumption Of garbage has
been almost nothing, compared with whit
would be required Of 1t ifthere was any.
thing like a systematic and thorough
collection Of garbage made.
With the crematory doing about all
that 1t can, II Is useless for the Health
Officer 10 enforce the law in relation to
cleaning out pools and vaults. The con.
tents are not now allowed to 70 to the
country, and dumping them into the
river is prohibited by State law. The
present crematory can burn Just so much
and no more. Provided there was a
larger and more centrally located crema-
tory, such as the Health Officer hopes to
see, there is every reason to believe that
the people would gladly cooperate with
the health authorities in cleaning up.
DR.. Garrison hopes with his communi.
cation TO stir the Finance Committee
and Council, up TO the Importance Of
this matter, and bring about the speedy
provision Of the $1,000 needed to build
the new and badly needed crematory.
The fact that S,7sS uncleaned vaults
are estimated to exist In this city Is an
eloquent enough fact in itself, without
anything being said as 10 the unhealth.
fulness Of such state OF affairs.