The morning call., 1891-03-20
NO MORE TANNERIES.
The Board of Health Declares
Them a Nuisance.
No More Salvation Army or Other Religious
Services in the County Hospital,
Except IN Chapel

Inc DUdItI VI uHdlly laob
night to condemn the three tanneries out in
the Mission, familiarly known as the Riley,
Tiernan aud Stein tanneries, in the neigh
borhood of Dolores and Thirtieth streets,
and ordered their removal.
This matter has been under consideration
a long time, and was not finally disposed of
without deal of discussion. The people in
the neighborhood of the Objectionable places
have all cried out as in one voice against
them, and made all sorts of appeals TO the
authorities for relief. The Board of Health
found it delicate task to discriminate.
hence it was necessary TO go into prolonged
investigation and give all sides fair hear
ing, besides making repeated visits to the
places for a personal examination.
Dr. lie Tourneux said that Tiernan's and
STEMS places were undoubtedly nuisances
and should be condemned; they we're kept
in very unsantary condition. The same
could not be said Of Riley's, which, in his
opinion, was as well conducted and free
from sanitary objections as tannery could
be. And yet he did not see how the board
could make fish of one and fowl of another.
The only way out of the dilemma would be
to condemn them all.
TANNERIES NOT WANTED.
The attorneys representing the owners of
the places tried to get the board to say
whether or not all tanneries were nuisances,
and if so. could they not be prohibited
withia the county limits, and If such power
could be exercised by the Board of Health
OF this county. could not the boards OF other
counties do likewise, and at that rate what
would become OF the tannerl6s
DR.. Fi>ke had but one answer to make to
the attorneys. He asked them in true
Yankee fashion if they would consent to
live alongside any one of the tannerles.
When the motion to condemn the places
was carried the citizens of the neighhor-
hood, who had swarmed in in great numbers
TO strengthen their appeals, burst out IN
grateful applause, sent their leader forward
70 express their thanks TO the board aud
then left the room.
The attorneys representing the tanneries
gave notice that they would file written
protest against the boards action and also
left.
Another matter that provoked about an
hour of discussion, during which the late
numerous County Hospital scandals and
complaints We're aired in full and an elabo-
rate coat of molaSses smeared over It's
management, was q communication from
Superintendent H-aly that he had refused
the Salvation Army admission To tne hoSpl-
tai. He added that the eyangelistS were
very much put cut because they were not
permitted to parade up and down the wards
and corridors singing, shouting and pray
ing and jingng their tambourlnes. The
doctor explained that the chapel had just
been newly fitted up, and he thought that
the proper place for religious services.
THE CHAPEL FOR SERVICES.
DR.. Fiske moved that the superintendent
course be approved, and that in future all
religious demonstrations of that character
be prohibited outside the chapel.
DR.. lie 1ourneuX argued in behalf OF the
poatiuu that in the first placp the noise might
be very detrimental TO the comfort and health
of some inmates. Again, he had found that
harm was being done TO the Institution By
the indiScriminate criticisms OF many OF
those people who go there ostenslbly TO dis
pense charity and religious instruction.
The doctor then referred to the charges
made by the Daughters of the Good Shep-
herd, which he characterized as untrutnfui
and entirely unwarranted. People who go to
that hospital don't seem to appreciate the
fact that it is maintained on 13R cents per
capita per diem, and then howl abroad in
prolonged horror because they don't find
everything as conf ortable and plentiful as
some of their own homes chance to be-. lie
had examined the food in company with the
Mayor, and found it wholesome and plen-
tiful.
PERFECTLY SATISFIED.
Dr. Fiske said he had visited public hos
pitfalls in all parts OF the United States, and
was prepared to say that none OF them was
as well cOnuuCIeu as lle Ddu fIduClsCO
hospital. Their food was no better, no
more plentiful, and their sanitary condition
in no respect better. He was perfectly sat
isfed with DR.. Healy'S management, in
deed, believed the doctor was doing mar
velously well to make sucn success OF the
MANAGEMENT with such \ small allowance.
he did not believe there was another man
in the United States who could do as well.
Dr.. Fiske's motion was carried.
Attention was called by Dr.. LIE TourneuX
to the violation by the scavengers of the or
dinance requiring their carts in which sl0pS
and garbage is carried through the streets
to be close covered. The matter was re-
ferred to the Chief Of Police and the Presi-
dent of the scavengers to have the abuses
stopped at once.
The property owned by Emily T. Pope on
Clarendon Heights, west of the Park Lane
Tract, was condemned as q nuisance and or
dered removed. 1t contains large pool OF
stagnant water that is regarded as breeder
of malaria and sickness.
CONDEMNED AS NUISANCES.
The three houses standing in the rear of
S24, $50 and S2S Vallejo atreet were con-
demned as nuisance because in a very un-
sanitary condition. The sewage Is flowing
on to the adjoining premises. Also the va
cant lot bounded by Francisco Vandewater
Mason and Taylor streets, because covered
with q pool of stagnant water ten feet deep
The nuisance in both instances was ordered
abated.
The appointments by Superintendent
Healy of the City and County Hospital of
James Connor, waiter in the patients din
ning-room, at the request of Supervisor
Aver, and Ellen Larkin, nurse were con-
tirmed.
DIR. Powers request that DR.. w. E. Hop
kns be allowed to assist him in the City
and County Hospital was granted.
Superintendent Weaver Of the Almshouse
reported 79I inmates at present in that in
stitution.
Quarantine Officer DIR. Lawler reported
that eighty-siX vessels were examined dur
ing February and found in good sanitary
condition.