The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-17
MENAoEs TO PUBLIC RsALrH.
The Condition OF the Drainage on All
Sides OF the City.

The Condition Of the Drainage on All
Sides or the City.
The inspector of the Citizens Sanitary
Association in his report of the condition of
drainage around the city says that most of
the vegetable accunulat!ons have been re-
moved from the Ogeechee canal near the
city, aud the north bank Of the canal as far
up as Gays lock is dotted with hillook-
shaped banks of decaying vegetable stuff
taken from the canal bed and piled up in
double rows.
THE removal of these vegetable accumu-
lations and the piling Of the stuff along the
bank TO rot during the hot season, looks like
makeshift eNpedient,n the inspector says,
toward putting the canal in sanitary
condition by the railroad company which
has the canal property on its hands, to quiet
the city authorities, and which might be
wiEked at in view of the exigeucies which
now beset the company, but for the fact
that the health and lives of the inhabitants
are involved.
THE simple removal of vegetable &C
cumulations from the canal, even II they
were carried off, would effect little sanitary
Improvement il other conditions in the
canal were not remedIed-conditions, how
ever, which cannot be remedied by tenn
porary expedients. The immense quantity
OF soft mud-a Shiny mass Of ooztng
putridity- which. owing to long neglect OF
the canal, has settled into what was formerly
the basin. The space between the two brick
bridges Of the railroad must be removed be-
fore the canal can be rendered sanitary.
SIT is essential to the Inhabitants not
only of Savannah but ali along the canal,
and especially those around the Gould
pond" the inspector says, "that the
problem as to what is TO be done
with the canal should be solved without
longer delay
The city authorities have taken the old
timber ponds above Gays lock in hand,
and have constructed dams across the open
inRs from the ponds to the canal, and
opened bitches which drain the ponds into
the Musgrove canal, under an arrangement
for reimbursement Of the city for the
expense of the work by the owners Of the
ponds.
Inspector Desvergers also refers to the
cleaning out OF the West Boundary street
sewer now in progress by the city. The
| cleaning out Of this SO yer is an annual and
expensive task. Owing to the contracted
dimensions of the sewer it becomes every
year choked up with sand carried into il
from the sandy slope on the west Of the city.
| The opening of the earth and tearing
out OF bricks from the sewer in large
blocks at intervals OF twenty feet the labor
Of shoveling the send out and carrying it
of and the reconstruction of the sewer is
| not an easy task. Experience should sug-
gest TO the city authorities the expedieacy
Of hereafter constructing sewers on the
sandy slopes Of the city of sufficient dimen-
slons 60 obviate saoh difficulties.
The drainage conditions southeast OF the
city on the lands which lie east Of the Low
ers lane settlement, between the old Har-
mon track aud the Bee road are not good,
and in view Of their near proximity to the
city, and the fact that miasmatic exhala-
tions from them VIII be brought by the
winds directly into the homes of q section
Of the CITY now rapidly filling up with
family resi- iences, remedies should be sp-
piled as soon as possible. There are nun.
Der Of ponds holding stagnnnt water and
also several malarial boys on these lands.
The inspector says that the detachment of
convicts which the county commissioners
have put on the Casey canal has already
cleaned out the canal from the four-mile
hill to the city, aud it only requires the
opening of few surface drains from these
lands to the Casey canal to remedy these
conditions. He also reports that the surface
drains between Tatemville and the City and
Suburban railway need cleaning out.