The morning news., 1889-04-13
WILL NOT RErARD BUILDING.
The City Council Not Likely to Stop
Excavating in the Burnt District.

The City Council Not Likely to Stop
Excavating in the Burnt District.
The resolutions passed by the public
health committee Of the Citizens Sanitary
Association Thursday night do not appear
to have disturbed the minds of aldermen
connected with sanitary affairs. The reso-
luton in which IL is recommended that the
council pass an ordinance prohibiting exca-
vations OF any kind after May l, the members
of the council say, is superiuous, as an or
dinance Of that kind is already in force.
The recommendation to fill the vaults in
the burnt district is not likely to be adopted
by council
DR.. Il. B. Harris, chairman Of the health
and cemetery committee OF council, and
also member OF the sanitary commission,
said yesterday that there will be no arbi-
trary enforcement Of the May l excavation
ordinance in the burned district, but that
special provision will be- made for it, 80 that
the work of rebuilding will not be unrsas-
onably retarded With reference to the
vaults in the district mentioned, DIR. Harris
said that they are being deodorized and dis
infected, and the contents are being
removed. Phenyle, powerful disinfectant
and deodorizer. has been used, and the tests
have shown the most satisfactory results
DR.. Harris said that he took about
gill and half Of the powder and applied it
to a barrel of very foul night soil collected
by Supt. Cleary's force, and directed the
barrel to be sealed up. At the end of three
days the barrel was opened flnd the con-
tents were found to have be1n thoroughly
deodorized and germicided. so that there
was no unpleasant odor; on the contrary
the offensive scent had bgen replaced by an
ordor which was pleasant As disinfect-
ing agency phenyle will no doubt take the
place of the germicidSs heretofore used by
the city.
DIR. Harris said THAT the city was never
in a better sanitary condition at this season
Of the year than IL is now, and the house.
to-house inspection has already begun.
He complimenled Alderman Harmon upon
the effective sanitary work done by the
street and lane force, which has given the
streets and lanes of the city thorough
cleaning up, and especially for the work
done in the eastern and western parts OF the
city, wnere there has been not only a gen
eral Cleaning up, but improvements made
in tie drainage
Flow is the crematory getting on9" DR..
Harris was asked
He replied that the foundation is being
laid in cement, and the president of the
crematory company is north looking after
the material which could not be obtained
here
The improvements to the quarantine sta
ton, DR.. Harris said, will soon be com.
pleted. The engine and rails have been
sent down to the station.
Mayor Schwarz was asked what effect
the resolutions Of the public health com
mittee of the sanitary association will have
IN retarding the work of building up the
burned district. He said he didn't
desire to forestaH the action of the board
of sanitary commissioners, which will meet
next Monday THE board consists of Alder
men Harris and Myers, the mayor ee-o6icio
and Messrs. J. K. SausSy, J. r. Wheaton
and g. l.. Cope.
DR.. Falligant, chairman Of the drainage
committee of the council, said that he sup
poses the object of the Citizens Sanitary
Association In recommending that the
vaults in the burned district be filed
up ia to prepare the way for
house drainage. The doctor having
touched on house drainage, was asked
what has caused the delay after 50 much
activity a couple of months back. He
shook his head and intimated that he has
not been supported in his house drainage
plans as he had hoped and expected to be,
and he thinks there are "coVetotis eyesn
directed toward his nucleus fund of $45, 900
which they would like to get hold Of for
other purposes than house drainage, but he
said that he has not abandoned the enter
prise Engineer Blandford has promised
to have the tidal observations at st. Au-
gustine creek, and the geographical survey
ready by April Is, which Dr. Falligant
said that he will send at once to Mr..
Herring, the New York sanitary engineer
who visited Savannah in February last