The San Francisco call., 1895-11-03
BIG CITY HOG RANCHES.
Health Inspector Kinne's Work
Through South San Fran.
cisco.
DIARIES ARE ALSO NUMEROUS.
The Present Board of Health Bring
to Light Many Evils of Long
Standing.

The Board of Health appear not to
be neglecting any detail which bears
even remotely on the public health. Old
ordinances, which have grown musty by
virtue of not being enforced, are being
overhauled, and special attention paid to
them.
For instance there is an ordinance pro-
hlb1tlng the keeping of livestock for mar
ket purposes within certain limits. This
act is known as order number 2468, and is
amendatory to section 63 of order 1887. 1t
reads as follows:
No person or persons shall keep or cause to
be kept any swine whatsoever, nor more than
two COWS, within that portion of the City and
county OF San Francisco bounded as follows:
BY Lyon street, the southerly line of the
Presldlo Reservation, Sixteenth avenue, D and
fuIton streets, Stanyan street, Frederick
street, First avenue, Sixteenth street extended
westerly to j street between First avenue and
S otaSnyan street; Stanyan street extended south
tieth street extended westerly; Thirtieth
street, Castro street, Sou thern Pacific Railroad.
10 point where Crescent avenue, ii extended
westerly, would intersect the same; Crescent
avenue, Andover street, Cortland avenue, San
Bruno avenue road, Islais Creek and the
street.
Provided, however, that any person who at
the date OF the passage of this order possessed
ana Kept more than two cows within the
limits OF the districts hereinafter stated shall
be exempt from the provisions OF this section
until the expiration of nine months from the
passage hereof, to wit: In the district
bounded by Cole and Frederick streets and
First avenue and Sixteenth street tprojected
westerly, between First avenue and Stanyan
street lStanyan street projected southerly to
point where II would lntersect Thirtieth street,
II projected westerly; Thirtieth street, ii pro-
lected westerly, TO intersection OF Stanyan
street, projected southerlY; Bellevue street,
Corbett and Ocean roads, Clara avenue and
the northerly line of San Miguel Ranch; also
in the district bounded by the Southern Pa
cihc Railroad trects Randall and Mission
streets, Cortland and North avenues, Norwich
and Folsom streets, Precita place and Precita
avenue, Colusa, Kansas and Napa streets; the
waters OF the bay, from Napa street to Islais
creek; san Bruno avenue or road, Cortland
and Andover streets and Crescent avenue, ex-
| tending westerly to the Southern Pacific Rail-
road tracts.
/ This order was passed November 9, 1891,
| by unanimous vote of the Supervisors,
but until now not the least attempt has
been made to enforce it. This careless
ness, oversight or whatever it may be
called has resulted in the springing up OF
nearly 100 hog and COW ranches in that
portion of the City lying contiguous to
Rutchertown. There may be double that
number in districts not yet canvassed.
The owners OF these ranches are not only
/ violating order No. 246S, but they are colG-
mitting a double offense in feeding to their
stock swill and butchers offal. So far
/ some twenty-five hog-raisers, having to-
/ tai average OF 1900 mead on hand, have
/ been notified to move outside the limits
The date fixed is November 25. These
ranches are all located at Bay View and
vicinity The dairies in the same district
are as follows:
P. +. Z. Steiner Indiana and Nevada
streets, 10 cows.
Charles Hawes, Connecticut and Sierra
streets, eiehty cows.
B. Denahay, 524 Indiana street, twelve
! cows
Thomas Mcknight, Kentucky street, be-
/ tween Butte and Napa, ten cows
1t is the purpose of the Board of Health
/ to see that this order is obeyed in letter
and spirit, though they have given the
owners reasonable time in which to move
! their establishments. Inspector Kinne
contends that it would not be right to
pounce upon the violators of the law with
out first giving them ample time to make
other arrangements, because thev have
been allowed almost unlimited sway for
four years, many believing that they were
well within their rights. He says how
ever, til at 1t is now well understood that
the Board OF Health intend to enforce
( every ordinance affecting the public
health and consequently all offending
parties, whether they receive formal notice
from the department or not, Will be called
TO strict account after November %.
Inspector Kline says that the Butcher
town people have all expressed their
willingness to comply with the orders re-
Gently issued. They are now preparing a
request, which will be sent to the SUPER
visors in few days, in which they will
ask that a culvert be constructed on Sec
ond avenue connecting that arm of the
1 hay lx-iY, ofR Roil n
! bay proper. II the City grant this it is
/ proposed to build an automatic gate at the
! culyert on Railroad avenue lust above
First, which will open when the tide
comes in. On the ebb tide this gate will
close, opening at the same time a similar
| structure at the Second-avenue culyert
| By this simple device all the debris in the
west arm Of the bay v i'll be washed out to
| deep water, materially benefting the
sanitary condition of the entire City. The
water from the Second-avenue culvert will
run Immediately under the slaughter
| houses, giving them a saltwater bath
! every twelve hours.
Meat Inspector Davis has sworn out a
warrant for the arrest of NJ. Rosenberg.
who conducts business on Howard street
! between Fifteenth and Sixteenth. FRIDAY
afternoon Deputy Rivers saw Rosenberg
! board the Tiburon ferry and he at once de-
termined to follow him. On the other
side of the bay the butcher got four calves
and when the boat landed on the San
| Francisco shore Rivers seized them. Two
were found to be decidedly immature be-
| ing scarcely 2 weeks old. The other two
were up to the standard. Davis at once
swore out warrant for Rosenberg's ar
rest. but up to late hour last night it had
not been served. The Inspector saws he
will have the butcher in court on Monday
and, furthermore, will ask that he be given
the full penalty of the law.
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