Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-11
Health officials Very Thank.
full for the Heavy Down.
pour Last Night.
MANY SUITS ARE ENTERED
Against People Who Fail to Res pond
Promptly to Notices for
TIE ABATEMENT OF NUISANCES.
State Board Of Health Sending q Repre-
sentative to Pittsburg.
FALSE ALARM OF ASIITIC CHOLERA.

the city authorities had been endeavoring
for weeks to do toward warding off an
attack of cholera when she contributed last
nights heavy shower. Cutters and alleys
all over the city were washed out and
sewers were effectually flushed by the
downpour while it lasted. The city
authorities have, however, done much
effective work which could have
been accomplished by no other
agency. At the same time much remains
to be done.
The officials say the more the effort to
cleanse and disinfect the city is prosecuted,
the more there is to do. Every day shows
an increase in the number of complaints.
Last week the Bureau of Health received
over a hundred complaints from citizens by
mail daily, but, notwithstanding all these
were attended to and the nuisances abated
as far as possible, the list of complaints has
been even greater in the week just closed.
The City Cleaner Than Ever.
The officials declare that now, as far as
streets and sewers are concerned, the city is
in healthier, cleaner condition than ever
in her history. The greatest trouble is
with private properties, the owners of
which fail to promptly obey an order to
clean up During the past week more than
hundred persons have been prosecuted
cases a fine, but still there are
many who fail to act. Forty suits
were instituted before Magistrate
Succop by Chief Sanitary Inspector Nc
Even yesterday and an other batch will 60 in
tomorrow. The Street Commissioners are
also enforcing the law in this way in the
hope of making people understand that they
must obey to avoid expense. The prompt
ness with which the officers are acting in
this matter has caused complaint from some
who by their own neglect have suffered.
Mayor Gourley has ordered suits brought
against all who neglect to clean up within
two hours alter being notified and the order
is being carried out to the letter Many of
those prosecuted are the best class of resi-
dents.
Trouble Over the Wharfboal.
A solution ofthe Point wharfboat problem
is expected on Chief Bigelow's return to the
city tomorrow. The owner of the boat,
Captain Free, still holds the fort and his
friends are exulting that in the controversy
last week he defeated the Bureau of Health.
The latter is compelled to acknowledge
that some such receptacle for the surplus
Df garbage which the garbage furnace
consume is necessary at some
point downtown, but they say Captain
Frees location is not the proper one. OBJ
jections are raised to Captain Frees meth
DDS also
For the past two or three days the tele-
phones in the Mayors and Controllers Of
fees have been kept hot with complaints
from residents and business men along Du-
quesne wav and from the Exposition build
ing. They stated that Free was dumping
garbage into the river at the foot of Third
street where it foated around on the sur
face of the water, causing an unbearable
stencil which remained after the garbage
boats were towed down the river Chief
Bigelow gave Free authority to place his
boat at the wharf, and he is expected to
remedy the trouble on his return.
Secretary Lee Coming to Pittsburg.
In response to Mayor Gourley's letter Sec
retary Lee, of the State Board of Health, yes
terday telegrapned that he would be in the
city this morning and confer with the
Mayor, Chief Brown and other officials on
railroad quarantine arrangements and the
appointment of Mr.. Brown as Special
Deputy of the State Board in this vicinity.
They will meet at the Hotel Anderson this
morning and while Mr.. Lee is here several
questions, which have lately puzzled the
authorities, will probably be Strengthened
out
1t was reported yesterday that case of
Asiatic cholera had been discovered in an
Italian boarding house on Eleventh street,
but it proved only cholera morbus when in
vestigated. The Chamber of Commerce re-
ported yesterday that the wickets at Davis
Island dam will be lowered twice a week
for some time in order to maintain sup
ply o. fresh water in the pool around the
CITY.
At meeting of the Emergency Sanitary
Committee yesterday morning it was
ordered that the Heron Hill reservoir be
drained and cleaned as health precaution.
The sanitary inspectors were ordered to
enter and examine the cellars of every
house in their districts. A number of
serious nuisances were reported and ordered
Abated, one being the Seibert tenements in
the Eighteenth ward, another an open lot
of d. A. Schauer on Hamilton avenue,
John Wilson's lot on Beatty street, and an
open drain on the Pennsylvania Railroad
at Murtland avenue. The railroad quarau-
tine plans have been laid out and nothing
remains toward putting them in force but
the authority of the State Board of Health.