Morning journal and courier., 1891-06-05
X MENACE TO HEALrH.
A Pestiferous Spot that should be
 Attended to at once Before the Hot | DaYs of Summer.

A Pestiferous Spot that should be
 Attended to at once Before the Hot
 Days of Summer. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 write this to call the attention of the public to nuisance which, if not abated at once, will cause much sickness among the residents of this part of the town.
 Between Whalley and Dixwen avenues is the swamp we'll known to all old resi- dents by the name of Beaver pond, though why it should be called a pond no one knows-it is simply a big swamp hole. It is divided into sections by Henry and Nun son streets. From this place it is ths the wind carries offensive odors for blocks in every direction.
 Before wrote this took the trouble to get the opinion of citizens residing on Dix we'll and Whalley avenues and on the cross streets to the east, and they all bear mo ont in my belief that unless something is done to put an end to this, that scarlet fever, diphtheria and other dread diseases will surely result. It may be also home for the bacteria of which told Sanitarian" occasionally speaks. As the county jail stands close to the eastern side of this pest hole, is it not more than likely that the re- cent scarlet fever trouble there is proof of the truth of my statements
 Should anyone doubt what I say and after reading this lay it aside with the re- mark, 'sanother sanitary crank" let them take Dixwell avenue car and ride over to Henry Street, get off and walk two blocks to the south and this is what they will find. On either side of the road is a swamp containing large stagnant pools of xyitI, o1inna On fhe east side of the road is clump where, within few rods of dwelling houses, g large part of the filthy dirt, collected from the catch basins of the sewers, is dumped-also all sorts of decaying gar bage and refuse matter.
 Near Henry Street and across from the dump can be found 8 large, dead New Foundland dog, it has been lying there all l winter and the carcass is now getting 'tripe"-also numerous dead cats are scat tered around. Next the dump and bach owned by colored man, named, believe Efferts, the half dozen pigs which thi! contains add their share to this foul smell | ing neighborhood. Near by stand a bone boiling establishment
 which also, at times, puts in anothe
 variety of oder, althoug gh if that were tn only thing no one would complain. If tn | day is not at all warm, doubt much i the olfactory nerves of the investigate
 will allow him to see one-half of this. Tn
 little warm weather we have so far had ha
 started up the rank smells to such an ex
 tent that people in the vicinity are alread.
 obliged to keep their windows and door
 tightly closed. And at night, when peopl
 desire ventilation the most, the atmospher
 is at it's rankest, and keeps them shut u
 as tightly as windows and doors will do it
 Have things come to such pass that we
 the taxpaying citizens of New Haven, mus
 endure this state of things, and live in a,
 atmosphere that is not only unpleasant
 but is constant menace to our health an
 that of our familiess
 Hoping that you will see fit to print thi
 complaint, on the chance of it's doing som little good, I remain, A SUFFERER.