Evening star., 1893-11-02
7 HE HOG MUST GO.
Health Officer Hammett Serves Notice on
Owners in the District
objections to Procuring Sanitary
Carts for Garbage-The Law on
the Subject-Open Carts.

Persons residing in the county and in
Maryland and Virginia near the District
line and who have been hauling swill to
their hogs are much exercised over the re-
cent regulation concerning the manner in
which they were to haul the garbage. The
regulation. as printed in The Star at the
time Of its adoption, reads:
That IL shall not be lawful for any per-
son or persons to remove or transport gar
base through any street, avenue or alley
In the cities of Washington and George
town, or their suburbs, except in water
tight carts or wagons with tight-fitting
covers. thoroughly sanitary: and any per-
son or persons removing or Transporting
garbage in and along any of said streets,
avenues or alleys, not in water-tight wag-
ons or carts with tight covers, thoroughly
sanitary, shall on conviction be punished
by fine of not less than S. nor more than
$40 Dor each and every such offense to be
colected as other tines and penalties are
now collected"
The publication of this regulation caused
reeling OF uneasiness among the hog
raisers, and especially among the poorer
classes, who imagined that they would
have to provide steel carts similar to those
In use by the sanitary company
All sorts of conveyances were constructed
ana Tor the last two weeks a dozen or more
or them have stopped at the health office
Tor inspection The hotel men were the
principal objectors to the new resula ton.
Ihey were willing to transport or have their
garbage transported in sanitary manner.
out they objected to being required to pur-
chase expensive vehicles. But the health
office would not pass any sort of vehicle
other than such as the law required Yes
terday vigorous objection was made to the
commissioners. An application was made
by man who said he lived on Commits
sioner Ross farm, but he Jared the same
as did other applicants
Late yesterday afternoon the Commission
ers amended the resula ton so as to read: /:
And other sanitary conveyances."
Against the Hog.
This morning Health Officer Hammett
told Star reporter that 1t was his inten-
ton to get rid of all the hogs in the District
and prevent their being raised anywhere in
side the District lirnits
The doctor referred to section seventeen
OF the regulations. which provides: THAT
the Keeping, heftiing and feeding Of hogs
In pens or otherwise. within the cities of
Washington or Georgetown, or the more
uenseiy populated suburbs of said cities is
hereby declared a nuisance injurious to
health and any person creating or maintain
ing such nuisance. who shall fail after due
notice from this board. to abate the same.
snail, upon conviction, be fined n OF less than
$ nor more than SIS for every ysuch os-
fense"
Two years ago." said the doctor "the
nght against hogs was commenced by this
ONCE and am surprised to find that there
are still SO many OF them in the District"
d. Hammett said that the owners of
nogs would have to get rid of them by the
LIST or december. He would not have any
OF the owners proceeded against before that
time, ne said, because he wanted to work
no hardship on any one. and that will be
after the usual time for hog killing.