Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-02-21
LOCAL EVENTS.
The Board of Health Holds a
Meeting.
REMOVAL OF THE CEMETERIES
Indian Trouble Reported at IndiO
Other Items of More Than Or
binary Interest.

The Board OF Health met last night
Drs. j. H. Davisson, M. Hagan, JOS
Aurtz. Mr.. E. T. Wright and Health
Officer DR.. MCGOWAN present. Mayor
Hazard announced his inability to be in
attendance early in the evening, and
Clerk Robinson failed to appear at the
appointed hour, bat after the board and
reporters had waited in the corridor for
thirty minutes, the secretary was sum-
moned by telephone and an entrance
was effected into the Mayors Office. DR..
M. Hagan was elected temporary chair
man and the meeting was called to order.
R. Y. McBride's demand for $50 SO,
which had been referred to the board by
the Council, was approved.
Two demands were also received
through the Council from John Farrell,
amounting to. $136, for removing and
burying dead animals during the months
of December and January last. The
matter provoked good deal of discus
sion, and it being understood that the
fees for this purpose should have been
collected from the persons to whom the
animals belonged, the bills were returned
to Farrell for correction.
The garbage contract of j. F. Donegan,
which was in the hands of the Mayor for
signature, was read by Clerk Robinson
for the benefit of the board and also
provoked lengthy discussion. but as the
matter was not in the hands of the board
no action was taken, although it WAS
generally regretted that the board could
not recommend the interpolating of q
clause embodying the removal of dead
animals in the contract, to take effect
when Farrell's contract expired.
The petition of II. Marteen ct al,
calling the attention of the board to a
pool of water on Bellevue avenue and
New High streets, which had seeped
from the old city cemetery on the south
side OF Bellevue avenue between CASTELAR,
and Rosas streets, and was menace to
the public health, was read. After q
lengthy discussion, the matter was re-
ferred to the Council with recommends
ton that an ordinance be drawn up to
prevent further burials in the cemetery
as the only means Of abating the
nuisance.
The Health Officer stated that he had
| been aeked by the Odd Fellows to issue
a general permit allowing them to re.
move bodies from the cemetery of the
organization at Sand and CASTELAR, streets
| to the new one on Stevenson avenue,
Boyle Heights. The matter was dis.
cussed at some length and finally referred
to the Health Officer, with power to act
as he shonld deem best in his discretion.
In response to communication from
the Salt Lake Medical Society asking for
a copy of the laws regulating the eani.
tary condition of the city, for the pur.
pose of framing laws for their own city,
on motion of DR.. Kurtz, the board re-
quested the City Clerk to furnish the
Health Officer with copy of the city
charter, to be forwarded to Salt Lake.
The Health Officer brought up the
matter of the death of Mrs. l.. F. Alau-
zet, at No. 122 Also street, on the Sd
instant, and suggested that it was the
duty of the board to request. the Council
to pass an ordinance requiring the regis.
tration of midwives. On motion of DR..
Kurtz, he was instructed to frame such
an ordinance as he thought would cover
his suggestion.
Dr.. Kurtz said that in the matter of
the nuisance being maintained by the
Chinese at the Plaza, he thought that if
it was obligatory on white people to
keep clean, it should also be so with
Chinese; and, after talking the matter
over, the Health Officer was urged to
abate the nuisance.
DR.. MCGOWAN said that the Council
had by the retrenchment ordinance cur
tailed his force by two men, and as all
four of his inspectors were good men and
conscientious workers, he did not care
to take the responsibility of dropping
any of them. They were appointed
by the board, and should be removed by
it. DR.. Kurtz moved that w. R. Rob-
bins and s. B. Stiles be discharged, but
DR.. Davisson said that he was more
inclined to retain men whose families
were dependent upon them, and moved
to discharge Richard Garter and Stiles
On the roll being called the motion was
lost on a vote, and DR.. Kurtz having
renewed his motion it was carried by a
vote of to 1.
The Health Officer fled his annual
report, and the board adjourned.