The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-07

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fers to our taxpayers some slight rec
ompense for the loss OF their citizens
and the increased expenses incident 10
the management of city affairs arising
therefrom- In this connection, II Is
proper for me to thank you for your
courteous consideration of my private
Affairs, which were sadly demoraifzeo
during the epidemic. Much adverse
criticism. which Is, I believe. unjust,
has been made concerning your honor
arium to me. II is needless for me 10
detail to you my work. but In con-
junction with the management OF the
epidemic, I personally supervised the
care OF the patients at the smallpox
camp for a period OF six weeks after
the physician In charge had returned
to the city. This was not really my
work also cared for families In this
city as attending physician. for reasons
too obvious to you to neen repetltion
here. My private practice afforded me
no income, because / was debarred
from taking care of IL, and assuredly
no taxpayer of reasonable Judgment
would expect a professional man TO
work from June 10 to Oct. 1. the clos
ing day Of quarantine. for s1.66 per
day. under existing conditions. or
about one-half the sum provided for
laborers In this city. The bill present.
ed to you for clothing necessarily de-
stroyed. and which you deemed proper
W 0icdifOWs was a RCitttttJ tecN 49,
and has necessarily been deducted
from the amount allowed. / desire
again to thank you. however. for your
discrimination between right and
wrong, and to place this evidence OF
the propriety of your honorarium on
the records of this department
i now present to you some very i'm
portant Considerations First. the de-
sirabilit1 OF establishing a bureau or
vital statistics. At the present time 1
can give you no record or births or
deaths. because no one Is compelled TO
report them. The deficiency is very ev-
ident. and should be remedied, not only
for statistics. but as a piece OF justice
to our community. A person may ole
by foul means, and no one can ques-
| ton the legality of the death. Chill
dren are born. the mothers being at
tended by incompetent midwives, who
should have certificates, and the chill
dren and mothers often die. No one is
| interested, and the cause of death Is a.
matter of small moment. The aver
| age coroner's jury knows as much be-
fore being impaneled concerning the
real cause of death as II does after
wards. These juries. as at present con-
Quoted. are the most farcical studies In
| the human comedy. 1t Is inconceivable
| to me how this recommendation has
been overlooked every year, and sin
cerely hope some action will be taken
gestions. Coroners juries. or rather
withdrawing juries," until regulated
properly, should be abolished as use
less and often detrimental luxury to
| the community.
Again, / want food section added
| to the present ordinance. so that our
| citizens will know that the milk they
| feed their babies. the food they eat to
| sustain life itself is not contaminated
and unfit for consumption. What bet
| ter safeguard can we throw about this
| community than to see that IL has for
sustenance all that is proper and good.
| This may seem as platitude to the
average layman, but to the physician
| 1t is of paramount Importance.
Then. i wish to see some rules made
| so that people will not fill the alleys
with manure heaps: that they Will be
| garbage and ashes; that they Will be
restricted from filling up vacant lots
with cans, old clothing and refuse of
all kinds: that property holders may
be compelled to dig cess pools for the
| accommodation of their tenants, thereby
/ getting rid of wash water and slops.
which is now thrown in the yards or
upon the highways, and that business
men, instead of sweeping the dirt and
papers from their floors to their streets
shall be compelled to sweep IL to the
rear of the building and there deposit
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| to be cleaned at regular intervals.
| These and other rules must be adopted
to give our city a cleaner appearance.
| The sawdust from the steam saws
lies in regular heaps in the alleys and
| in our cutters and gives us an untidy
| appearance. Either the dust should
| be picked up and burned Immediately
or else regular places be provided for
accomplishing this necessary work.
| Until these or similar rules are proviv-
ed the city must clean certain locali-
ties, because at the present time IL Is
| impossible to do IL either by strategy
of by legal measures.
In conjunction with the city engineer
1 examined the cause of our annual
| spring foundations from the western
| portion of the city. and find that the
| ditch west of the city, IL properly
| taken care of, will rid us of at least
| four-fifths of the volume of water. The
| rest is surface water. and from the
| general topography of the land can
| not well be taken care of. The incon-
| venience and slight amount of dam
| age Is of such short duration that
do not consider IL of sufficient impor-
lance to warrant the city building sew
| ers or waterways and mourning great
| expense, which would not be deemed
essential in private business affairs.
The ditch in Sheep gulch should be
cleaned. for the natural detritus is be-
ing deposited slowly, and will ulti-
mately fill the channel.
T. All of which is respectfully sub
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