Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-08
WARDS PleeERY MUST MOVE.

WARDS PlGGERY MUST MOVE. A Meeting of the Board of Health
 This Morning That Means Business
 There was no dilly-dallying by the members of the board of health this morning when President O'Neill called the meeting to order in the district court room. The following report of Sheriffs Mcdonald and Carmody and Constable Rignev, who were instructed to visit c. Art Wards piggery, was read and &C., cepted:
 To the Honorable Board of Health:
 Gents-According to your instructions Ward on the Meriden road and on the east side of Mad river, about twenty feet from the edge, we found three dead pigs and dead cat in a very decom- posed state, and buried the same accord ing to your instructions and orders. We then searched the river on the east side and found no other nuisance. We then went to the west side of the river and found two henneries and seven piggeries all running down to the river edge. In pen No were seven pigs; No 2, eight; No 3, six; No 4, four; No 5, five or more; No 6, nine; No 2, one and some small ones ;all pens in filthy and unwhole some condition. In pen No pig manure was found to be over foot deep, nothing to prevent It from washing into the river. In fact all the pens are the same, but this one is in the most filthy condition. We also found on in- vestigation at the river edge, pig manure to the depth of five to eight inches in several of the pens. Also found dirty scum collected in and around a lot of boards that are fastened so as to run out into the river. Also found on further investigation on the river bank north of said piggery, a place which has been used for killing hogs, the ground all around which is covered with pigs feet, hair and other refuse. Also found fur ther above, dead hens lying on the edge of the river. Also found on inves- tigation where Ward keeps his garbage, in house built for the same, that pipe leads from the same garbage house, runs out on top of the ground and is in filthy and unwholesome condition, nothing to prevent the same from wash ing into the river. The whole place is in a very filthy and unwholsome condi- tion, according to our best judgment and belief. When we arrived on the east side of the river pigs in pens No 5 l and were at the edge of the river, which is in a filthy condition. The stench from the garbage and pig ma nure was awful, and the grounds are in very bad condition, and nothing to pre- vent the washing of the same into the river from any slight rain, as it all lies on a side hill.
 JOHN W. MCDONALD, VIM. J. RIGNEY,
 MAURICE F. CARMoDY. The committee then reported that they had visited the grounds again this morn- ing and found them in the same condition Ward promised to remove the nuisance if he was given an extension of time. This report was also accepted. The fol- lowing votes were then put and unani- | mously adopted:
 "Voted, upon due inquiry this board finds that c. Art Ward maintains a piggery upon his premises, upon the | banks of the Mad river near the crossing of the MerIden turnpike in the town of Waterbury, which endangers the health of the inhabitants of said Waterbury; that said piggery is a public nuisance; maintained by said Ward from fifty to sixty pigs; that in said piggery is de- posted from day to day large quantities of garbage and filth; that large quanti- ! ties of said garbage and filth and the manure and urine of said pigs find their | way into the stream which supplies the i inhabitants of said Waterbury with water to drink and for cooking pur- poses; that dead pigs and the carcasses of dead dogs, dead cats and dead chickens have been found in said pig l gerry and within the limits of said stream of water; that the grounds with in said piggery and upon the bank of said Mad river within the premises of said Ward to some extent are saturated with slime and filth and offal and muck, making said piggery a nuisance and contaminating the waters of said stream and endangering the health of the in- habitants of said town; that at a meeting of this board of health, held April 6, 1893, it was found by this board that and endangers the health of the inhabi- tants of Waterbury, and ordered that said nuisance should be abated on or be- fore April 8, 1893, at o'clock in the forenoon; that notice of said order has been duly given to the said Ward; that saiu Ward has refused and neglected to comply with the said order although it is now passed o'clock in the forenoon of April 8, 1888; now therefore it is stable of Waterbury, John w. Nc Donald, city sheriff of the city of Wa tury, and Maurice F. Carmody, deputy sheriff of the county of New Haven, re. siding in Waterbury, proceed forthwith to the premises of the said c. Art Ward above described, taking with them such assistance, teams and implements as may be necessary, and they are required to remove from and off the premises aforesaid such garbage, filth, muck and offal as may be found there near to said
 Mad river, and which is likely to fall. run or find it's way into said Mad river and to carry the same to a reasonable distance from said river and there to de-
 posit the same upon the premises of the said Ward, doing as little damage as possible, and so the lands of the said
 Ward may be benefited by the said fer
 tilizers as much as possible, and to re-
 port the expense of carrying out this order to this board at it's next meeting. "Voted also that the said constable and two sheriffs shall drive or remove the said pigs now in said piggery out of said
 piggery and pig-stys in which they are now kept and maintained to some place
 at least 300 feet from either bank
 of said river, SO that the garbage fed to said pigs and manure and