The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-09
CONDITION OF THE 1owLANDs.
Inspector Desvergers' Report to the
Sanitary Association,

Inspector Desvergers of the Citizens
Sanitary Association, in his report last
week to the health committee of the as
sociation, reports that the drainage con-
ditions of the lowlands on both TANKS of
the city, which are under the dry culture
department are now good.
The Savannah Real Estate Loan and
Building Company is setting an example
worthy of imitation by other land COM
panies and owners in the vicinity of the
city in the opening of drains through its
property ia the southeastern extension,
which will, in future, prevent collections
OF water in the surface depressions.
The inspector reports as to the PERM
cious sink at the intersection of the White
Bluff road and the railroads, which has
been the subject of much recent COM
plant, that he brought the condition of
this place to the attention of the late
board of commissioners, but that mas
much as il would have required a deep
and long ditch to drain this pond and the
commissioners did not feel authorized to
take earth from the higher land around
it to fill it up, nothing was done in the
matter. He ascertained that the railway
companies rights of way included but
limited portion of its area, and that the
main portion of 1t belonged to Gen. A. r.
Lawton. He called the attention of A. II.
Lawton, Jr., who is Gen. Lawton's agent,
to the nuisance, and he expressed himself
as ready to do anything reasonable
toward bearing his part in abating it.
The inspector reports that the Savan-
nah, Florida and Western Railroad Com
pany has already filled up tho portion of
the pond covered by it's right of way, and
that when the other railway company
does its part it will require but few
inches of earth taken from the surface of
fh a cr1soIpA ba .
and that the grading would be a benefit
to the property from which the earth
would be taken and abate what has been
a long and grievous nuisance to the neigh
borLood
The inspector says that he apprehends
there would be no difficulty in efecting
arrangements with the owner of the
property to have the pond so Allied up
The inspector also refers again to the
pernicious condition of the railroad bar
row pits in the vicinity of the city; and
he reports that similar pits exist all
along the lines of the railroads through
out the county affecting the neighboring
inhabitants with malarial fever
He reports that the predecessors
OF the present board of county
commissioners took action toward having
statutory regulations enacted which
would enforce on the part of the railroad
companies the drainage of the barrow
pits along their rights of way, that the
county attorney suggested that general
law be enacted to effect the purpose and
the Inspector says it was understood that
bill would be prepared in time to be in
PRODUCED at the ensuing session of the
legislature, but for some reason this was
not done.
The inspector says that the existence
OF these barrow pits is seriously detri-
mental to the health of people who live
near them, that neigh borhoods previously
healthy have been rendered sickly by
such pits, created in the construction of
railroads, and that there is public ne
cessity for general law to regulate the
manner in which they shall be dug and
drained and kept open.