St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-07
IT WORRIES 'EM ALL.
The Board Of Health Takes
Precautions Against the
Dread Cholera.
Skeletons of SMALLPOX Pa
tients Worry st. Louis
Park Citizens.
Tonight Republicans Will
Elect Delegates to a City
Convention.
Court House Contractors
Must Pay a Forfeit--Li-
brary Business.

The subject of cholera came up for
discussion i'll the meeting of the COM
mittee on health and hospitals yester-
day in various ways. The subject was
handled very gingerly, but in manner
showing that the health board is by no
means lulled into sense of security
simply because the interior has escaped
the Dire ad disease. 1t was decided to
build an extra quarantine hospital for
use in case anything serious should oc-
cur. and plans for the same were sub
mitted by Building Inspector Hazen.
The present quarantine hospital is in
adequate for the handling of any large
epidemic. The health commissioner
was authorized to adopt any precau-
tionary method he may deem advisable.
He will direct the disinfectiOn of the
refuse matter in all the depots. thus
avoiding any danger from emigrants.
At present the sawdust used in sweep
ing the union depot is saturated with a
solution of corrosive sublimate. thereby
insuring the disinfection of the entire
building. A process for disinfecting
all night soil and garbage will also be
adopted.
One of the interesting matters dis
cussed at the meeting was the removal
of the quarantine hospital from its pres
ent location in st. Louis Park to the
workhOuSe or some other suitable place,
anywhere, in fact, except within the
corporate limits OF the little suburban
town. A delegation of gentlemen in
terested in st. Louis Park were present
and advanced their claims. The gentle
men were A. d. Milford, William
Regain, Ii. A. Turner, A. w. SWEET and
the people in st. Louis Park until they
are ready to believe anything. If i.
should ever penetrate as far as Minne-t
apolis and the patients taken to the
quarantine hospital they fear the worst,
for the proximity of the disease would
be sure to occasion serious state of
affairs in the vicinity of the park.
1t is also argued by the resi-
dents of the park that the city
can take care of Its own conta-
gous diseases and dead without sending
them to st. Louis Park. The cholera,
however, is not the only thing which
causes the residents serious alarm. The
st. Louis road is grading for new set
of tracks, and in taking the lawful
twenty We feet the ground occupied by
the quarantine hospital as graveyard
has been encroached upon, In cutting
through the embankment for the proper
grade the graves have become exposed,
and in short time, especially if
heavy rain should set in and wash away
any of the dirt, the dead bodies will roll
out of the graves and flop themselves
about In diSheartenlng manner. 1t
will be readily seen that the complaints
of the citizens of ST. Louis Park are not
without foundation, when it is taken
into consideration that many of the
patients who died and were buried in
graves at the quarantine hospital were
victims of smallpox. The bodies were
originally buried III the Tenth ward,
but were removed to the quarantine
hospital burying ground.
The st. Louis Park citizens and Off
Gals are therefore fearful that these
smallpox eaten bodies will interpose
their grewSome bones upon the COM
munity, and infect the air with pesti-
'lential germs. 1t is conceded that the
location of the pest house in st. Louis
Park was wrong in the first place, but
now all that is required is that the city
right a wrong. If the matter is not at
tended to at once land the hospital re-
moved, the citizens of the park will
bring action for its removal in the
| courts. The park is on The direct line
VI III tc IdilIOduS, dilu tilS cl6CLGlC IlTe
| to that point will soon be completed.
Aside from this the park is OH a very
popular thoroughfare, whose terminus
and objective point is Minnetonka. The
Lake street drive extends as far as the
park, so that the quarantine hospital is
really in dangerous locality.
1t was decided at the meeting that,
as soon as convenient, the health board
will visit the park and investigate mat
tiers. If it is seen that the hospital
| should be removed to some other local
| ity, the board will undoubtedly order it
| SO. The wOrkhouse as a location is,
| however, out Of the question.
DR.. Kelly, the health commissioner,
will leave for the East in few days in
company with some other members of
the board, and inspect the method of
quarantining in the East. The quar-
antining of cholera in New York will
be especially looked into. While the
doctor is away, DIR. A. K. Norton will
act as health commissioner. The health
board will be allowed $4,000 extra for
an emergency fund to be used in case
OF any serious epidemic.