The morning news., 1889-05-06
THE MARKETS BAD CONDITION.
Sanitary inspectors Report Upon 1t
-lnspectInR thA Slaughter HOuses.

Sanitary Inspecoor's Report Upon 1t
inspecting th5 Slaughter Houses.
At the last meeting of the sanitary associa-
tion committee on public health the inspector
reported, in reference to the market house,
that the decayed meat boxes have been
taken out of the vaults, and placed in the
passage way of the basement, where they
present an unsightly and offensive appear
ance and effect a. obstruction and nuiSance
to persons who have occasion to pass
through the basement of the building as
well as to the tenants of the other vaults.
The butchers are still using these boxes
despite their filthy condition. The inspector
has not learned in reference to the city
marShaPs report after his inspection of the
boxes, and therefore does not know whether
they will be kept in or removed from the
market. The inspector says that the market
building is now in a dangerously unsani-
tary condition; that the negro cook shops
in the vaults are still dirty and
filthy. The floors in soma of
them are unpaved in places, and rubbish,
old boxes and barrels, rags and trash are
piled Ii the corners and behind the shelves.
The floors of the vaults being below the
level of the passage way, render 1t lmpossi
ble to sweep the trash out OF them AL
though the Inspector called attention 10 the
1bo-hS Vi NdtCI AdClilLlSS ia JnO MAJ hGh
house, and the necessity for a supply of
water fer washing the market stalls and
floors, nothing has been done to supply the
deficiency, and. as consequence, the beef
and fish stalls are still in dangerously un-
sanitary condition, dried blood and other
matter adhering to them.
The inspector says that, in one respect,
the unsanitary condition of the market and
the neghbOrhood around it, has been
aCrOr m tad hU Ircgl- Of fha pItU II
thorities. They have put not single trap
to the cess pools in the market, but left
them untrapDed, ard as a consequence
sewer gas from the cid sewer on Bay lane,
which voids into the same cess pool at the
intersection Of Bay and Barnard streets.
that the now sewer YoidS It's contents into,
comes up through the market cess pool
openings, and poisons, not only the at
mosphere in the market house, but that Of
the entire market square, and eudaugers
the health Of people in the neighborhood.
The Inspector also reported { hat during
the week he made an inspection of the
butcher pens in the vicinity Of Savannah,
and, with a few exceptions, the slaughter
houses are an abOmination. the floors and
walls and everything about them being
matted with dried blood and 6lth, putrid
ofal and Old bones altered about, flies
swarming around them, and at some of
them buzzards and hogs together gorging
upon the putridity-tbe latter, of course, to
contribute when sufficiently fattened, to
the fresh pork produce Of the Savannah
market. Two of these slaughter pens are
upon the southern skirts of the city, and
althou2h an ordinance of the city, passed
May 28 1872, interdicts the use of places
for the slaughtering of cattle, calves, sheep,
goats or hogs within mile of the cor
porate limits Of the city, under penalty
of prohibition of the person violating the
ordinance from selling in the market and q
fine Of $l00 for each offense, the city
authorities have leased to a butcher, for the
consideration of $50 a year, place within
the limits Of the interdiction, and permit q
slaughter house Of the most offensive and
unsanitary character kept thereon. The
worst two slaughter pens, including the one
referred TO on the city's property, in the
county are nearest the city, in fact, upon
its southern border.
The inspector reports that many COM
plants come to him Of the offensivenesi of
privy vaults throughout the city. He has
examined number of them and referred
them to the superintendent Of the odorless
excavating machine, the only resort in the
absence of a pail system.