The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-03-06
A BOY PHYSICIAN.
lie and Other Irregularities Dis
covered by The County
Health Board.

A boy homeopathic physician practic-
ing without a diploma, but by permis-
sion of the County Board of Health, is
what Mrs. Smith informed the Health
Board is being done. In her communi-
cation she said that this boy physician
was located at No 260 Ninth street, and
his name is DR.. Larkey. Drs. Gordon
and Converse were amazed at this sur
prisiEg information and directed the
counsel to the Board to attend to the
matter at once.
Mrs Mary D. Knack, of Union Town
ship, was recently fined $50 by Recorder
Schleicher for committing a nuisance.
She is past seventy, and some time ago
she organized an amateur scavenger
brigade to empty her cesspools
asked yesterday to have the
fine remitted. The Board decided to
make her pay.
Clerk Rooney read a communication
from committee appointed by property
holders on Linden avenue and Avenue E,
claiming that the basins of the sewers on
Linden avenue and Avenue E are so badly.
constructed that they hold no water and
let the gas escape from the sewers. The
Board directed Inspector Allen to investi-
gate the matter.
INFECTED BODIES
Inspector Allen also reported that I'M
dertaker Boylan had kept the bodies OF
Alfred Max Stier and Kate Loretta
Wright, who died of contapious diseases
on February 10 and is, longer than TWEEN
ty-four hours before burial The bodies
were inferred on the 18th and Goth of the
month. Mr.. Boylan, in communica-
ton, explained that both deaths took
place il the night and the parents were
ignorant of the nature of the disease.
The matter was referred to cou nsel.
Mr.. George w. Clerihew informed the
Board that the stable in the rear of his
house was nuisance because Of the
noise made by the horses, and with the
comment that where half a dozen horses
are STABBED there is bound to be some
noise, the communication was ordered
filed.
Counsel for the Board stated that he
had recovered fine of $50 against Mrs.
Hennigan for keeping a foul stable.
Judge Davis heard the case and fixed the
fine.
HOUSE OF ASHES.
Inspector Allen reported that in room
of the st. James Hotel, at Marion, ashes
and garbage were three inches thick on
the floor and that vermin was as thick as
hair on dogs back, and that the tenant
there kept lot of fowls. The Inspector
said dispossess proceedings had been be-
gun before Judge Pelonbet against the
complished The tenant who some time
ago knocked out constable refused to be
dispossessed and is yet in charge of the
premises. Inspector Allen was ordered
to abate the nuisance.
The same Inspector reported that there
are five sunken lots in the rear of No. "a
Clinton avenue, where stagnant water
has been standing a year. There is a
stable in the rear of Sackett street that
drains into these lots, creating a bad
smell The ground is too low to be con-
nected with the sewer, but John Thomp-
son said he would fill them in with per-
nit from the Board to do so. This was
refused and the Inspector was directed to
investigate the matter.
CONTAGIOUS.
The Clerks report of contagious dis
eases for February was thus:-Diph-
liberia, 1903; scarlet fever, 6S; Group, s.;
children excluded from schools, III. and
returned, 43.
License was granted Dennis Shea to
gather bones, fat, etc, and the diplomas
of Drs. Lucius Francis Donohue, John S.
Kelly and Nathan G.. Bozenan were
ordered registered.