Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-10-25
NEWS ABOUT TOWN.
The Board of Health Holds
a Meeting.
NUIsANCEs REPORTED
The Fair to Open on Monday
Next-The Events on the
Programme.

ANSAC nv AIVCAUc VII tnO
Programme.
The Board of Health met in reguls,
session last evening at the Mayors office
Mr.. E. K. Wright in the chair, and
Drs. Davisson, Hagan and MCGOWAN
present. Health Officer MCGOWAN re.
ported that in the matter of the Fort.
street Veterinary Hospital, he had per.
sonally inspected the place and found il
III very clean condition. He had as.
certained that the complaint emanated
from Mr.. Seigel, who lived close by, and
whose main objection to the place
seemed to be that horses were doctored
under his windows. AS the proprietors
of the hospital had promiseds to treat
their equine patients inside in future,
he believed that no further cause for
complaint would occur.
He also reported that in the matter OF
the petition of P. M. Darcy ct al, with
reference to the brick kilns on College
street, he had found on examination
that the klins were not burning at the
present time, and he was therefore I'M
able to state whether the smoke com
planned Of was such as to render it a
pubic nuisance.
Several communications were received
from the City Clerk referring number
of petitions to the board. In response tc
that of Seymour & Johnson ct al, asking
that First street, between Fort anu Los
Annaloc utr hn ~ h.
recommended that the Council order
that the thoroughfare designated be
swept.
The petition of S. K. Adams calling
the attention of the Council to a large
body of water, eight feet deep, on lot on
Sand street, near the St. Paul's Hos.
pital, was referred to the Health Officer
for investigation.
Two communications from the City
Clerk, referring the matter of declaring
the Arroyo de las Reyes near Figueroa
street O public nuisance, to the board
and also the matter Of abating the
nuisance caused by a pool of stagnant
water at the east end of the Kuhrts. street
bridge, were received and ordered filed
The petition of Oscar Macy ct al :.
residents and property owners on Macy
street, requesting the Council to order
the city garbage and refuse matter to be
destroyed, as the exhalations arising
from the present dumping ground near
the river we're deleterious to the health
of residents within a radius of half 9
mile, was referred TO the Health Officer
DR.. MCGOWAN stated to the board thai
the place was no doubt nuisance, but il
was necessary one, and no one lived Al
present i'll its immediate neighborhood
but colony of Italian squat
ters. The ground belonged to the
Jackson Bros, who held the contrac
with the city for the disposal of the gar
bage. OF late, however, their crematory
had not been in working order and they
matter was discussed at some length and
it WAS unanimously conceded that the
dumping ground would have to be re
moved in the near future but no site was
proposed.
A communication from r. G. Goddard
and Frank johnson was read, Offering tc
contract for the cremation of dead ami.
mails, should O'Farrell's contract, which
has twelve months still to run, be an
nulled. Both men being present, they
we're called before the board and ques.
toned as to their system, but it was
learned that they had rented McNeil's
crematory for the purpose of rendering
tallow, and had not as yet tested the
efficacy of their works. AS there was nc
probability thai O'Farrell's contract
would be annulled, the communication
WAS filed and the applicants were advised
to make practical tests with their Crema
tory with view to using it for the burn.
ing of garbage and refuse at some future
date.
On the recommendation of the Health
Officer, the board recommended to the
Council that New High street, from
Bellevue avenue to Alpine street, be
severed.
Health Officer MCGOWAN reported tha,
there was an epidemic Of typhoid fevel
at the Protestant Orphans Home on the
corner OF Yale and Alpine streets, about
forty cases having been reported within
the past three weeks. He stated that he
had personally inspected the building
throughout, and could find no apparent
local Cause for the outbreak. A plumber
who accompanied him, said that the
plumbing was the beat in the city from q
sanitary standpoint, every pipe beinS
properly tapped and ventilated. NJ
deaths had occurred as yet, and mum
ber of the patients were rapidly recover
ing, and it was evident from the fact tina
no new OF aiaks had occurred, that the
cause, what. yer it was, had been re-
moved. He had not yet ceased his in
vestigati MS, however, and would repor'
more fully at the next meeting.