Evening star., 1896-12-15
THE GIVE CENTER
Many Papers RaSd Ii the Meeting
Last Night.
VENTILATION Of SCHOOL ROOMS
Superintendent Powell Takes Issue
With Some Statements.
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SANITARY ARRANGEMENT

SANITARY j, ARRANGEMENTS
A public annual meeting of the Civic
Center was held last evening at the First
Congregational Church, when several re-
ports and addresses of unusual interest and
importance were read. The meeting was
well attended, and was presided over by
DR.. John NJ. Gregory, president of the as
seciation. who was unanimously reelected.
In calling the meeting to order, DR.. Greg
ory introduced the Rev. DR.. s. NJ. New
man., president Of the Civic Center Council,
who hriefy explained the scope and pur-
pose Of the association. 1t is an associa-
ton, he stated which. having the welfare
and advancement of the community at
heart. seeks to promote them by securing
a sympathetic cooperation of all those en-
deavofirg Or desiring to benefit the munic-
ipality. The reports to be read would, he
said, speak but little of the work of the as
rotation. for to tell; of all Its work would
occupy several evenings. Yet they would
give quite view of what has and may yet
be- accomplished.
Street Railways.
Dr. Gregory then presented Dr. Max
West of the committee on streets and al
chises. He referred to the value of such
franchises. and regretted that here they
had been given away, He spoke of the
difficulty of compelling the local street
railway companies to pay licenses claim
ing that while the'law is broad enough, the
companies fail to pay for them. He stated
tina. while Baltimore receives about 800,
900 annually from such companies and
New York more than SSa0.000, Washington
receives only about sIU,GtO, and that only
in taxes. He suggested that the local
companies could be compelled to make
return fer the valuable franchises granted
them by making them pay for future priv
:ieses. by amending their charters, by tax
ing them, or by reducing the fare charged
by them. Car fare, he said, is much higher
in America than in Europe, or even in
Australia, and, while the fare here is low
because of the sale of six tickets for y
cents, still he thought a scent fare and
transfer would be high enough.
te Home Libraries.
Miss Josephine Clark next made an inter-
est,ng report en- the subject Of home libra
res. collection of books which travel
from point to point in a city. Two have
been established here recently. and with
splendid results. Such library remains
about three months in one locality, and
then it is placed in another The IDEA orgi-
mated in Boston, where they had sixty-nine
home libraries last year.
school vsntiIation.
The next report submitted was by MI
w. H. PennelI on rventHation of school
houses. He asserted that there is no regu-
lation in the District respecting the heat
ing and ventilation ref school houses In
deed, he said, that only in the High School
is there any system of ventiIa ton, ventila-
ton in the other schools being mainly OBJ
tanned by opening windows. He compared
the condition of such matters here with
the state of affairs In Boston, greatly to
the disadvantage OF the District schools
saying that what is being done in Boston
where there Is perfect system of yentila-
tion should be done Acre, where the amount
or 1resh ar enJoyeT by each pupil is. he
claimed. very smaHg ~ "si---"7 --4
MIX supply.a.,S go,
DIR. s. s. Adams followed with an address
on ''The Necessity of an Iniproved Milk
Supply" He spoke OF the absolute i'm
portance of pure milk, especially for chill
dren between birth ana five years and
particularly during the first year of life.
During the ten years ending in 1856 there
We're 81, 453 deaths here. 2O.51S heing chill
dren under five years of age, and 14,54
under one year. During the last ten years
he stated the death rate had been reduced
hut fractional part. A large percentage
of thece deaths among children could safe
ly, he believed. be attributed to impure
milk. He spoke of the amount of filth
generally found in cows milk, saying that
1t has been estimated that fifty tons of
filth was eaten in milk in Berlin during a
single year, and recent examinations by
DIR. Kober had shown Washington milk to
contain even more. He instanced several
cases of almost indescribable filthy sur
roundings of dairies. saying that in one
locality cow was found eating garbage
out of privy box, a thing at once stopped
by the health officer. At least POO cases,
Inn1I limo hot IL i
diphtheria. have been traced here to i'm
pure milk he stated, and he suggested
that careful housewife can materially
lessen the danger to be found in milk. When
she found the milk Objectionable she should
at once complain to the milk man. and
then, If it continued, to the health officer.
In conclusion, DIR. Adams advocated the
sterilizing Of milk To do that he ex-
planned place it in a perfectly clean bottle,
placing over the mouth absorbent cotton
for stopper. Then place 1t in a pan of
water on the stove until the first ebuIlitions
Is seen. when it should be removed from
the stove and rapidly cooled. The cotton
should meyer be removed, he said, until
the milk is to be used, else 1t will soon be
rEft and dangerous. Home sterilization,
said the doctor. Is best.
Inspection Of Bakeries.
;. A paper on the results of a sanitary in
spection Of bakeries was next read by DR..
Ernest F. King. There is no law here. he
explained, requiring an inspection of bak-
cries, and he advocated the enactment Of
one. which would also require bread to be
carefully placed at the bakery, in a suitable
wrapper, so that its handling by the many
unclean hands. through which 1t passes in
the ordinary course of affairs might there
by be rendered harmless. Df. King stated
that an inspection of local bakeries. while
showing them to be In better condition than
those of London OF New York on the whole.
developed the necessity for Better sanitary
arrangements. Such arrangements would
be not only for the welfare of the consum-
ers. but as well for the makers of bread
While it is probably true that all disease
germs In the dough are destroyed in the
baking, Yet 1t Is by the handling of bread
by unciean, careless, hands that it Is rem
dered dangerous at tfmea From 10000 to
rocco loayes of bread are. sent out here
every day. said DR.. king" and the quality
of the bread is genefailyiSoOd.s .,,e-
Sewers and nIvater Supply.
DR.. Kober read next aepaper on sewers
and water supply inifeIation to health He
referred to the valuen ando absolute import
ance of good sewers and pare water. saying
that modern sanitation shas reduced the
death rate at leaseh5O per cent. He re-