The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-01
MENACEs 70 PUBLIC HEALTH.
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inspector Desvergers of the Citizens
Sanitary Association reports his inspections
~ food produce for the week ending last
night as follows:
Average quality of food in the market
.hont the same as that of the previous
1eak. AS 20 the market house. its condi-
tion. the inspector says, remains
n conjecture whether the dere-
lotion is attributable to indifference or in
competency on the part of the department
,ssnonslble for it. Dark, smoky vaults,
with dirt floors, dirty boxes and old cooking
trumpery, cuddies behind the stalls, in
xhich unsold produce is stored and kept
over often from Saturday to Monday, wilt
ing and decaying; walls and roof overhead
festooned with sooty cobwebs, are coudi-
lions which render it difficult for official
vigiIance to effect much in tie way of
sanitary protection of food produce within
tbe building, and as to the passage ways of
the basement, there has been but little if
anv abatement in the commission of
nusances in them.
The inspector reports in reference to
drainage operations that the dry culture
department has been doing good work
rscently in cleaning the drains in the low
lands contiguous to the city. Those por-
fious of the city extension now being built
M. and which depend for drainage upon
open drains, he says, should be severed as
soon as cooperation to that end between the
city authorities aud the property owners
can be brought about, because open drains
in an inhabited place are always made
dumping sinks of. That portion of the city
extension south of Anderson street and be-
tween Price street and the Savannah, Flor
ida and Western railway presents just such
a condition now, and could be rem
dered permanently dry and sani-
tary by the extension of the East
Broad sewer through it. This one
sewer SO extended would effect thorough
drainage of the grounds and would enable
the city to fill up the deep open drains
which now require constant attenti IN on
the part Of the dry culture department.
The inspector reports also that the city
authorities are doing most import ant work
in the way of sewage and in behalf of sani-
tation on that portion of the Ocean Steam
ship Company's property north of
River street and west of the canal,
which has been a malarial quagmire. The
work is being done under contract by
W. F. Chaplin. A sewer is being con-
structed feet square and 225 feet long,
from sand pit of Is feet diameter to the
river With this sand pit two branch
sewers connect, one from the West
Boundary street sewer and the other from
the Hogg sewer.
The inspector reports that the two butcher
pens in near proximity to the city, so often
reported before by him, one of them upon
the city's land, still menace the health Of
the inhabitants in the southeastern extern
sion of the city. He. also reported,
in reference to his inspection of
county drainage, that the work of
the convict gang on the western
branch of the Minis swamp canal was COM
pleted on Thursday las, and he has been
informed that tae force will be put to work
at once on the branch of the same swamp
which leads southwark between the Foun-
tain farm and the Ogeechee road. He also
reports that vegetation mas become redun-
dant in the drain extending from the Jasper
Spring lands to the river, and also in the
drain that extends westward through the
water works lands, aud he has been
instructed to furnish duplicate report of
his county inspection to the county COM
missioners.