Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-10-03
tx" AGAIN HEARD PROM,
Conditions that Did and Do How EG-
Isl In tho Sanitary Department
what % Has cost to Remove tho OAR
bagV ~ District 80. How uis.
trict SO ais Neglected,
milton Nltsrel Nenr

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Perhaps your readers are not gene.
rally aware that there has been %
revolution" lately that has about
iouccd tue glim u that astral lumlnary
that hns Tor some four years given
luslro to tue galaxy that toyOives
around the city hail. mean It of tho
100 loads week.
The city scavcngCr had thirteen
teams, alleged to DO employed Ia re-.
moving garbage and refuse from gar.
bago district number one, consisting Of
nine blOclge, Tor which teams he
was receiving $3.50 per day each, the
expense to the city for these teams,
two cartmcn ana TOUR " i've labOrcu
being some $40 per week. II Is now
better performed under tho direct COZ.
troll Of the health commissioners, where
- properly belonged, with four team,
two 'Carimru and two lab1Tors nj a cot
u sl25 Ior week, or saving Of somp
$1,000 Ior annum. And alter this
| bhowing 10 made as plain 10 the C0un.
ell ~ ngutcH can make II they retain
the tcnvengcf In alleged omplOymeut
at salary of sl23 per month. Docs
tue Council believe that because "a
sanitary system deals with obnoxious
matters II naturally involves the
| employ mont OF timilar elements To
effect tue details u ia operations? The
fclvCngtr hAH no apr ointment. IN be
u kind Of daughter VI the regiment, a
mascot 90 the council, hOOdy0 ~ the
! health department or "a nucleus n the
Liberal element OF the First pfociucly
| ~, tor come tricks that hru vain, tho
Council have o. elk" tue tcavrngor,
we hnyra smoke ordinance, set him
hauling smpkt; lt Will be u soft job,
one that he viii lay 90 like sick
kitten 10 a hot brick, aud have no CON
sCirhtiOus scruplrs la receiving hiH
salary, Hs he has Ia his present. place.
For three years AMI seven months
under the manipulation OF the scav-
onger, taking the estimate OF $50 Ter
week anu his Ealafy added, II has cOst
the city about sDs, 900 10 scavougtr
those nine blockf, Gud competent men
have offered TO contract ~ scayenger
the entire city alta estimate per year
ut least 25 per cent less than that rate.
And what has been dOae for that
portion OF the city lying outside VI Dis.
irict number Ont2 The council passed
an ordinance requiring tbs Inhabitants
Of district number two, which 10 about
30 per cent OF the inhabited area, 10
remove the garbage and refuse Accum.
uiating therein at their own expense.
And II appears that the oouncilintend.
I'd that the people therein should IN.
force tho ordinances ~ we'll as pny Tor
the results OF I've operations. For dur.
lug the entire Liberal administration
the Council have devoted but about
500 U TO enforce It's garbage ordinance
IA district number two, such as inspoc-
tion and maintaining hoalthiul c1ndi-
tons aud also In obtaining data for u
halt completed sanitary census, There
nte nyOr 5000 outdoor water closets anu
over 1000 CesspOoln not con.
npotoi with tho suWet Within tho city
limits, and a great many Of thom have
not been discharged o. their contents
moreover Inspected during tue existence
Of tie LIhsfAl administration, and IN
this tue government they succeeded
gave 10 the Citi1sus better protection 10
health, Tor Il did enforce this sanitary
regulation,
Setting aside all consideration Of
tho enormous expense that garbage
district No. involved, the ordinance
liz an unjust discrimination against nj
leHst 50 per cent Of tue inhabitants Of
the city. lnequilRble Rud Unreasonable,
M their exists no more reason why tbs
city tfeahury should be at the expense
~ removing garbage from place in
the business district than from a store
outside OF that district, The ordinance
nakes n GLASS distraction pure aud
simple, Rud h within the Inhibition Of
the act of Congress restricting logisla.
ton In the territories, IL II no argu-
ment Ms / have heard Cuuuollmon adj
vance In Justification that other oities
have tho same ordinance. IL exists In
some cities by suilrnnoe Of the citizens
or under charter from the state where
there In no Congressional Interference
with the state VA delegating tie power
10 liz municipalities. Besides, those
city governments mid ana sustain their
health departments iu maintaining
and enforcing proper aud effective
sanitary measures throughout the
iinilts OF those cities. Not the iiuul
intermittent efforts attempted by our
city solons in that direction. Our city
authorities seem to consider health
department Of the least importance Of
any In aciiy organization. They have