The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-07-09
FHR HEALTH OPPICER EXPLAINS
InRGsneFal Answer to People who Com,
plata Of tho Garbage Service,

In General ApsNer to People who Com
plain Of tho Garbage Service,
~ ne Editor qfthc htdlignar;
sR,-WM you permit me, through
your columns, to say to the people who
write me communications beginning
witt, II wrote you last week in regard
TO the garbage man failing to take our
garbage away;p eThe garbage has not
been removed from my place for two
Weeks;p HGarbage has mot been re.
moved from this neighborhood for so
long that tits becoming q nuisance, and
sickness will result u something is not
done immediately 1.-THE garbage man
takes the garbage away from No, =
- street, only oncea week. ePlease
have the garbage cart call at my
place and remove the garbage 'gIhe
garbage man goes through our alley,
looks and passes on without taking the
garbage HIf you don't make the gar
bage Be taken away from mi house you
win hat 10 anAer In polese coFt as you
threten usjn "Your Rttension is called
TO No. Alley, b egarbage will brede
sicknis and deth; y "Please call and see
the garbage lying in the alley back Of
No, -, street." "My garbage has not
been removed since last Monday and !
want 1t taken away" and SO on ad
nauSesum, ad iyfRitum, and whose sigma.
lures are appended In some instances,
and in others the nom dc plume "Citl,
GEN. Householder democrat"
"Resident - ward, p 'fFriend, h"Yours
Truly, nstVoter, y Taxpayer" "Nabers,n
etc, and to all those besides who com,
plain through the telephone, or COM
plain upon the %streetsi to. those who
complain in temperate digniAed Ian,
guage, aud To those who get mad and
curse about the insuliclency ofthe SER
vice, that ! do not mind their complaints,
but I do object TO being blamed for the
evils which l am almost totally powerless
TO remedy,
Complaints are hest made in'writing
and will meet promptly with the best re-
lief | am able to heStow. To the cues
tion, CHOW oitenis the garbage man re.
quired to remove the garbage2v will
say that the ordinance under which he
operates and whose provision he gives
bond to comply with strictly, requires
him to call for and remove the garbage
from every house In his district once
daily six times aweek during the months
OF June, July, August and September.
As q matter Of fact everybody knows
that the contractors do not pret.s,Inn 10
live upto the requirements Of the ordi.
nance. In the sepond district two carts
are employed part Of the time, In the
4htra district two arc employed part OF
the time, In the Fourth one cart and
man attempts 10 do the work OF eight.
In the First aud Filth districts their re.
spectiVe contractors are Joint proprietors
Of one horse and cart, with which they
gather and remove garbage In each ofthe
said distEietl Npon alternate days Of the
Week-this, too, In the face OF the pro-
Vision that requires that no contractor
shall be Interested in more than one dis
trict
The trouble Is that these men know
that the Health Officer has been made
practically to understand that he must
not interfere with them, The people
who complain ofthe non.remoyal' of gar.
bage, rs a rule, do not care to appear as
witnesses In police eourt, and 80 the gar
bage contractor Is assured against prose.
Cution for violation Of the law, hence he
gathers the garbage only when, how and
for whom his caprices dictate. This is
a sad state Of affairs for any community
that ttNabaa hHalaNItaaa IN nInaa1lnnan