The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-16
TIE CITY,s SANITATION.
Inspector Desvergers' Report Upon
Health Matters.

Inspector Desvergers' Report Upon
Health Matters.
Inspector Desvergers of the Citizens Sani-
tary Association, in his report of inspections
for the week ending Saturday night, saws
that the average quality of food produce in
the Savannah market was about the same
as that of the previous week, except that
on Friday aud Saturday fish OF good quality
and In good condition came in plentifully :,
and also mutton, snow-white with fat, from
the tidal pastures across the river He re-
ports the market clerk and his assistant
energeticallv at work cleaning up the mar
ket house. brushing out cobwebs, and re-
moving the cuddies, cribs aud boxes, the
latter revealing in many instances inside
conditions which demonstrated the expedi-
ency, OF clearing them out of the market
building.
The inspector reports, in reference to
drainage in the vicinity of the city, that
Supervisor Davis of the dry culture depart
ment has been doing efficient work, consid-
ering the limited number of laborers
allowed him seven in alb, cleaning out
Jones' canal, and other drains in the low
lands east of the city. but that the good
effects of this work are impaired by defect
i've drainage.
The inspector says that the trunk in
Jones canal works very inefficiently. IL
needs new gate and new arms The trunk
In the Lamar canal also works very in
efficiently. 1t needs a new gate, new arms
and new nozzle. The two trunks in
Bradley's creek, belonging to the Savannah,
Florida and Western railway, are in a very
defective condition. Their hozzles fit so
imperfectly that the water flows In at
every food tide and submerges a consider
able area in the rear of the wharves, and
the water Is left to stagnate in the hollows
made by the company in excavating for
their track-beds behind the wharves. These
hollows would require only few train loads
OF earth to fill them up. and yet they are
permitted to become potent factors of
malaria.
The inspector says that there are gates
and timber of an old abandoned flood gate
o5structing jones' canal below the trunk,
and furnishing lodgmeat for driftwood
and trash, which the dry culture depart
ment of the city should have entirely re-
moved at once
+ns The .,o inspector J;ecsar reports further
nah, Florida and Western rail-
way yard are in a very foul condition, and
the bitches in the lands owned by private
parties on either side of the Perry street
canal. between the city and the Bilbo canal.
are obstructed with vegetation, particularly
those in the land leased to the City and
Suburban Railway Company, and that
there is pernicious bog on
the southwestern border of the
city, between Brownsville and the
Baynard farm. The vegetation is again
becoming redundant in the inner drains of
the Springfield plantation. He reports that
last Thursday he saw gang of laborers on
scows scooping up offensive mud from the
canal basin and depositing it on the west
bank of the canal between Bay street aud
the naval store warehouses recently bought
by the Central railroad, and that the super
visor of the gang said that he was acting
under orders from the president of the Sa-
vannah and Ogeechee Canal Company.
| whose object was to deepen the canal be-
tween those points in order to admit the
passage of naval store flats to and from the
warehouses. The inspector at once apprised
DIR. Brandt, acting health officer, of the
matter and had the work stopped immedi-
atelY,