The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-31

worst feature connected with dumping
garbage along the Butchertown water
front. The major portion of the debris
which is carried away by the tide finds a
lodg ing place in that arm OF the bay lying
west of Railroad avenue.
There it rests, diffusing its poisonous
odors throughout the entire City. Sec
tions and of the order number 2300,
passed Septem Der "a, 1890, speak as fol-
lows on this subject:
Section l. No person. company or corpora
ton shall deposit, dump or cause to be dumped
or deposited butchers offal or garbage or any
putrid or sinking animal or vegetable matter
any refuse, dirt ashes, cinders, sludge, acids
or other like matter upon any lands within
the City and County of San Francisco, or dump
or deposit the same from any wharf or bulk
head on the water front of this City aid
County. except as hereinafter provided. Nor
shall any person deposit upon any public
street, lane, alley, place or court within the
City and County any sweepings from shops or
stores, paper feathers, straw, broken glass or
crockery, rubbish, garbage or manure, or any
other debris from dwelling houses or places of
business of any description whatever.
No person, company or corporation shall
dump or deposit, or cause to be dumped or
deposited, butchers offal or garbage, or any
putrid or sinking animals, or vegetable mat
ter, or any refuse, dirt or ashes cinders, sludge
acids or other like matter, except the same be
dumped or deposited into such receptacles, or
into such lighters, barges vessels as may
hereafter be provided by a person or corpora
ton authorized to receive all OF such material.
Such receptacles, or such lighters, barges or
vessels shall be so constr ucted as to prevent
the escape of any noxious gases or odors that
might be detrimental to the public health or
comfort.
In addition to this matter of butchers
offal and other garbage dumped into the
bay it appears that certain wholesale
butchers are guilty of another violation of
the law which is even more in furious to
the public at large than the foul air which
permeates that section of the City. Under
meath many of the slaughter-houses great
pens are arranged where hogs are placed
and allowed to feed on such offal and other
garbage as they can find. They grow fat
on it and in few weeks without any extra
cost to the owners are in fat condition for
market-at least so far as fat goes.
Section 2 of the same order says:
No person, company or corporation shall feed
or cause to be fed any animal in the City and
County of San Francisco any swill, refuse gar
bage, butchers offal or any putrid and sinking
animal or vegetable matter.
Why these laws have not been enforced
In the past is not apparent, but the Board
OF Health does not propose to follow the
lines laid down by its predecessors. The
following notice has been sent to some
forty wholesale butchers, and Health Off
Ger Lovelace says it will be rigidly en-
forced:
You are hereby notified that the practice of
keeping hogs beneath the floors of slaughter
houses or rooms where meat is dressed and
prepared for market has been condemned by
ire Board OF Health as prejudicial to public
health Your attention is also called to Sec
tlon OF order 2300 general orders of Board
OF supervisors, which prohibits the dumping
OF butchers offal. garbage, manure, ETC., on
the water front or from any wharf or bulkhead
ana section of order $500, which prohibits
the feeding of swill, refuse. garbage, butchers
oHal or any putrid sinking animal or veg
OF san francisco. On and after the 18th day
OF november, 1895, any person or persons
found keeping hogs beneath the floors OF
slaughter-houses or rooms where meat is
dressed and prepared for market, or any per.
son or persons found violating sections / and
OF order $500, will be promptly arrested.
A s. LovELACE, M D., Health Officer.
"A. b. KINNE, Inspector.
The butchers do not as a whole take
kindly to the new order. They even go SO
far as to talk of resisting it in the courts.
I'VE have not done this before, said In
spector Kline yesterday, because we first
desired to make thorough investigation
ana see Just where the trouble lay. The
result OF our investigation is seen in the
formal notice just served on the butchers.
u contend that if the meat supply Of
san Francisco must be prepared for mar
ket In Butchertown, then it is no more
than right that the locality should be made
as clean and free from filth and filthy
smells as it is possible to make it. The
butchers themselves and all good citizens
should support the Health Department in
It's efforts in this direction"
The Board of Health has notified the
Aipers FertllIzing Company and the Cali