The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-03
THE COUN7T'S HEALTH
Fighting the Intolerab1e
HaCkensaCk Mea-
dow Smells.

DR.. B. A. Watson and Humphrey w.
Carr were present at the meeting of the
County Board of Health yesterday. They
represented the Bergen Land and I'm
provement Association. Several days ago
the Association invited the Health Board
to attend one of its meetings and discuss
with the Association the best means to
abolish the intolerable smell that comes
from somewhere on the Hackensack
meadows. The Health Board failed to
meet with the Association, and so the AS
ISOLATION decided to meet with the Health
Board-at least the Watson-Carr portion
did The gentlemen were warmly greeted.
DIR. Watson. as is usual when he is around,
was spokesman, and he set forth at length
his grievance. The smells were fearful,
he claimed, q menace alike to life and
property.
He asked the Board tie cooperate with
his association in one mighty effort TO
crush out of existance the stenches he
objected too. DR.. Gordon said in reply,
that the Board would be very happy 70
remove the nuisance, but SAID IL Wouiu
be a hard job to accomplish The trouble
that would be encountered would be IN
obtaining evidence that would prove TO
be satisfactory to the Chancellor. DR.:
Gordon said for two years the Board had
tried to obtain this, but had failed, Tor
the Chancellor insisted that the nuisance
complained of must be q specific n not
general one. DIR. Gordon said a very
thorough canvas of people living on the
west side of the Hill, OH the question had
been made, and none could locate the
cause.
You see. gentlemen" said the doctor,
'there are 40, 600 tons of manure. a huge
hog abbatoir and a fat rendering estab-
lishment, all very near each other. VINO
can tell which of these causes then NUS
ance?''
HUMPHREY W. RI KNEW.
sit seems Incredible continued Dr..
Gordon, ''but we met people who had
lived from six to thirty-two years in sight
of these nuisances who said positively
they never smelt any bad odor, and others
said the smell was bad once, but now
they do not mind t."
II can take my affidavit that the man
ure heap causes the odor," exclaimed MIR.
Carr; II know where it comes FROM"
And will your" asked DR.. Gordon
gleefully.
Certainly"
ssYou KNOWN said young Lawyer
quilted his ambition, that you must
show that you have sustained some
special damage"
srf this smell 6epreciates the value Of
my property is not that damage enougnY"
asked Mr.. Carr.
Eyes; / should think so."
Mr.. Carr and DR.. Watson then with
drew to consult their fellow members of
the association, but doubtless MI. Carr
will make the necessary affidavit which
DIR. Gordon said they had tried a long
time to get.
"a complaint was received against
Wilke Brothers, grocers, Central avenue
and Fourth street, Harrison, for main
tanning a nuisance. At a stable they keep
near the street, the complaint sets forth.
49, ~11A- 49, n-11 ~ rnra until
there is a car load,,which is removed in
bulk. The matter was referred to In
spector Allen. DIR. +. Blenekston, by
order Of DIR. Gordon, was not permitted
to register or practice in this State, al
though he had been duly authorized to
practice in Vermont. The only hope for
the doctor is to pass an examination be-
fore the new Board of Medical and Surgi-
cal Examiners as soon as 1t is organized.
d. j. McNorton, of Jackson avenue.
notified the Board that he had closed his.
pepsin factory, but asked to be allowed to
reopen during September. An inspector
was directed to examine the place. In
spector Saltonstail reported that Ed ward
Ihorne, of Hoboken, still refuses to make
sewer connection at Madison and Second
streets, and the matter was referred to
counsel.
WANTED A SEWER.
James Miller, who has lived in his
house since 1866, was ordered by the
Board Of Health recently to connect it
with a sewer. Yesterday he asked to
have the order rescinded, but DR.. Gordon
refused the request.
Then If l don't make the connection
I'll be locked upP" said Miller.
"Yes.'
IF I lave no money to make the con
nection?"
"Yes.n
"Well, then give me three months time
and I'll sell the place for the taxes and
assessments have cost me a dozen times
more thar it's worth. | will pay out no
more money"
He was then assured that he would not
be arrested and was granted a reasonable
time to conform to DR.. Gordon'S order.
Inspector Kielt reported %favorably OF
the application of John Kenney for a
permit to cart bones, and DR.. Converse
complained that Mill creek was being
encroached on and its drainage interfered
with. Referred to Inspector Kielt.
DR.. Converse was appointed a commit
tee to employ an architect to select o site
for the new contagious disease hospital
NJ Snake Hill, and then the Boarl regis
tered as practiclng physicians Joseph G.
Rooney, Jacob e. Cosgrove and Nelson
Tanning, Jr.
DIR. Gordon advised that q telephone be
put in the Office Of Counsellor Winfield at
the expense of the Board and it was or
dered done.
In regard to the census DR.. Gordon
asked Oh what basis future calculations
should be made. eve have based all our
reports on a population of 1856, 600 and now
we learn it is but 1853, 900" said he.
Il think it would be we'll to act as we
have done until the next state census is
taken, and draw our own conclusions
then,'' advised Counsellor Winfield. 1t
was so decided.
WEST H0B0KEN'S GRADUATES.