The morning news., 1889-04-05
THE cITY,s SANITATION.
Complaint That the Pail System is
Being Too Long Delayed.

| Beng 100 Long Oeldy0O.
The committee on public health of the
Citizens Sanitary Association held its
regular weekly meeting yesterday after
noon. The following members were
present: DR.. j. c. LeHardy, chairman,
and Drs Stone, Num- and Hummel and
DR.. ]. B. Read, president of the association.
Inspector Desvergers submitted his daily
report of market produce inspection,
ETC., and reported that he had
placed Toby Floyd and Gabriel
| brown, market poultry dealers, on
the information docket for violations of the
city ordinance. He also reported that he
| found the vault in the market basement oc-
cupied by Mr.. Putzel, and the area adjoining
it, used by the same party, in an unsanitary
condition, and a coop containing live fowls
belonging to him, in the passage way by
! the vault door in a filthy condition. On
motion, the committee instructed the in
spector to place the offender on the in
! formation docket
The inspector reported further that he
found the city market house in a Disgrace
fully filthy condition ol Monday morning
last The garbage and offal had not been
removed from the vaults and passageways,
and the meat vault was again in bad
condition. He was informed that it was
owing to the neglect on the part of the man
| whose duty it was to have the place cleaned
after market hours Saturday night; that
the man had been discharged and Mr. John
Carrick put in his place, and great improve
ment had already been made in the
matter of cleanliness. He repor ed Bav
lane, between jefferson and Barnard. as
not in perfect sanitary condition, and not
likely to become so until sewer is put in
that portion of the lane. Also that the
work of cleaning the bed of the Savannah
OOaaOhaA Taitn nit
and repairing the lower lock, progresses
very slowly; that there is not sufi-
cient force engaged to advance
the work as it should be
advanced, in view of the increasing
warmth of the we 'ther The inspector
said that lie had again gone over the lands
of the Central Railroad and Ocean Steam
ship companies, and that a few short
lateral bitches cut through the loose places
between Wadley street and the old water
works grounds are the only drainage work
done since his last report, and that these
bitches are already being filled up by cattle
trampling over them, the place being en-
tirely unfenced. The debris of the January
fire is now being removed from the cotton
warehouses.
The work of strengthening the Springfield
plantation back dam, has been com mpleted
under direction of Alderman Falligant of
the drainage COMMITTEES; and the alder man
informed the inspector that lie had been
authorized to deepen Jones canal and set
necessary trunks in it. and he had given
orders tor work to commence at once.
The Inspector reported that Alderman
Harmon, chairman of the street and lane
committee, is working with extraordinary
energy and effectiveness toward the promo
tion of sanitation in the city, having a large
force now engaged cleaning the West
Boundary street sewer, which las been so
long neglected that it had become clogged
| with sand and particles of brick in a con-
crete condition. That the cleaning of this
sewer and the opening of lateral drains to
conduct the water to it from 5he low places
on this side of the canal basin, now being
done under direction Of Alderman Harmon,
will be of incalculable sanitary benefit to
thai section Of the city. The in-
spector reported further that he
had been so fully engaged
with other matters that he had been able to
make but little progress in taking a census
of the COWS and stables in the city, and
that he had, in pursuance of instructions
| from the committee, addressed a note to
| Mayor Schwarz requesting him, in bshaf
| of the committee, to instruct the city sani-
tary inspectors to at once take a consus of
| the cows and COW stables within the city
NORTH of Anderson street and furnish the
same to the committee on public health.
The following resolution was passed:
ResolUed, That the committee on public
| health of the Citizens Sanitary Association of
Savannah sees, with concern, that the adoption
| OF the pail system in the western and eastern
portions of the city is being delayed, and it rec
| ommends that the work be commenced and
| continued simultaneously with the erection of
the creamatorY so that both can go into opera
| tlOQ at the time