Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-26
NO INsPKcToR nRoPpKp.

Hut Three Members Of the Hoard of
 Health Present Last Evening, and in Consequence Action on the maf- ter of Inspectors is Deferrea-The cid Colony Dfstfllery Nuisance-The Health or the City.
 At the meeting of the board of health last evening the Old Colony distillsries nuisance came up for discussion. Mayor Sargent said that he had visited the scene and was of the opinion that the stench was caused not so much by manure as by hay which had become deeomposed and was allowed to lie around. Health Officer Wright thought further that the place was just as clean as 1t could be under the cir cumstances, and that :t would require an outlay of over $1 ,000 to do away with the stench by filling it up with ashes and loam.
 Alderman Falsey of the Twelfth ward was very bitter in his denunciation of the place as nuisance, and claimed that manure had been dumped on the flats and into the river for at least year by the company, and that the river banks were lined with filth and offal from the premises for some distance. He also claimed that the tank on the property had been filled np solely for the purpose of hoodwinking the board of health and that really no inn provement in the condition of the place or any abatement of the nuisance had been made. The board voted to visit the place this morning at Il o'clock and thoroughly inspect the premises.
 Dr. Winchen suggested that no action upon the matter be taken until the next meeting, when it is hoped all the members will be present, in the meantime keeping the whole force at work.
 The board voted to have the clerk pre-
  the boards of aldermen and counoilmen, asking for @ special appropriation suf6- cient to pay the salary of the new plumb ing inspector, an office which has been created by them and for the payment of whose salary no appropriation had been made by them.
 Health Officer Wright's report showed that up to the present time there had been eighty eight deaths this month, which, if the same ratio were kept up, would bring the total up to no or 115 for the month, as against 14S for August last year. There had been two deaths from typhoid fever month last year; two from scarlet fever, as against none last year, two from diphthe- ria, as against five last year, and twenty one from diarrhea diseases, as against thirty-seven last year. Fourteen cases of typhoid fever are reported this month, ss against twenty for the corresponding month of last year; ten cases of scarlet fever, as against six, and seven of diphthe- ria, as against nine.
 The board voted to abolish vaults at 40 Whitney avenue, 43 DixweIl avenue at once and College street before January 1. The plumbing at 43 Dixwell avenue was ordered to be put in sanitary condition at once. It was also voted to issue no more permits for pig pens on the west side of Adeline street, and to notify the residents of the street that they were keep ing pigs there in violation of the laws and that they should remove them before De- cember 1.
 A communication was read from Dr. F. L. Dibble of New York, the owner of the properties, 509, 511 Elm street, which had been reported as having privy vaults upon them in violation of city ordinance. The communication was read and laid on the table until next meeting.