The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-06-02

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MONTHLY REPORTS OF OFFICERS. |
| The regular meeting of the board of |
| health was held last night. DR.. Paine |
| DR.. Allen, NJ. j. Kelley, DR.. Bentley |
| and Attorney George 5. Horn were
| present. The subject of nuisances was
discussed at length, and definite ac-
| tion will be taken in a few days to
| abate the most crying ones.
Showers Packing company will he
| visited by committee consisting of
| DR.. Paine, DR.. Bently, DR.. Allen and
| Captain Burke, with the purpose of
| stopping the fertiizing plant that sends
| its disagreeable eXhalations over the
vicinity. Mr.. Kelley reported it. He
| said the stencil is strong as distant
! from the plant as Capouse avenue. The
| people in the neighborhood We're under
| the impression until quite recently that
! it came from the garbage Crematory.
| DR.. Allen reported the presence of
| several piggcres along the tributaries
| of the citys water supply. He visited
! them and found that there was only
| one place that ought to be rooted out.
| That was the establishment of man
| named Wheeler in Elmhurst, within
| DIlN ltbl Ol lllt SIItBlll, anu llSIl ltNl
to the school house Wheeler has 10
| pigs, and above all the dirty, filthy.
beastly piggeries he ever saw that was
| the worst.
Or. Allen said the place is outside the
| jurisdiction of this board. but he is
deputy inspector of the state board,
and in that capacity proposes to act.
He took advice from DIR. Benjamin
| Lee, Of the State Board of Health, who
| instructed him to serve notice on the
| owner to remove the sty in five days
| or else the pigs will be cOntisCatCd and
| driven to the county poor house for
| the use of the poor. DR.. Allen and
| Captain Burke will attend to the case
this week.
CONDITION OF SOUTH SIDE.
Complaints are frequent. DR. Allen
said, from the South Side after heavy
| rain storm. The sewage is brought
down from high places. Nothing will
| remedy it except a sewer. The Beau
mont street stagnant pools are at high
water mark now, he said, and the
streets ought to be graded Scranton
street from Chestnut street to the river
is not sewerSE. The closets are on the
rear Of lots and not connected with the
sewer. The secretary was instructed
to communicate the fact to councils.
Another subject, he said, causes fire.
| quent complaint. That is stabling COWS
| next door to residences. The eXhala-
| tiOn coming from a stable may not be
| injurious to health, but it is not the
most delightful thing in the world.
| Captain Burke has more than he can
attend to in visiting these places every
ten days and making the owners keep
| them clean.
DR.. Bcntly brought up the subject Of
the stream in the Second ward which
is little better than an open sewer He
and DR.. Allen and Captain Burke were
appointed to notify the residents who
use it as a sewer that there is no en-
cuse; as there is a sewer draining that
territory, and they must connect with
it. The plans for the repairs on the
crematory have not arrived and when
they do special meeting will be held
to consider them.
REPORTS PRESENTED.
Food Inspector r. N. Cullen's report
showed that he did good work in May.
He made 514 visits to stores and mar
kets made 263 milk inspections with
the lactometer and 80 Babcock tests,
the latter to ascertain the solids, such
as butter in the milk. He sent 2,476
pounds of fish, 275 pounds of mutton,
90 pounds of bob veal, 80 pounds of
beef, barrels of cabbage, barrels of
spinach, barrels of rutabagas, bar
res Of radishes, 5la barrels of shell
oysters, 1l2 barrels of clans, crates
of strawberries, crates of cucum-
bers, and punches of bananas to the
crematOry to be destroyed. He found
only one case where the milkman in
creased his supply from the hydrant.
Out of 80 samples of milk he found
: only an average of 12% per cent. of
butter and 3a4 per cent. of fat.
Superintendent d. O. Thomas of the
garbage crematory reported that 1,557
barrels of garbage were consumed dur
ing May, and 13 dead dogs and cats
We're cremated. 1t required 10 tons of
coal to keep the fires burning.
5 Plumbing Inspector NJ. F. O'Malley
made his first report. 1t showed that
he made eight water tests, four smoke
tests, made five inspections of old
5 buildings, ten re-inspectIOns, twelve
2 visits to new buildings and examined
2 and approved two sets Of plans.
2 Secretary Murray's report summar-
r lied as follows: Total number of
! utdluS LOT may, III, Ol WnlCn 04 were
/. males 81 females, 43 We're married, 60
We're single, II We're widows and 5
were widowers. The deaths from ac-
cident We're Z, still births were 8; pre-
I mature births were three. The actual
= | mortality for the month was 103. The
births We're 81, all white. The cOnta-
p | gious diseases reported numbered Is,
. and Of them died. There were II
, ! marriages.
He read the reports from the Home
2 for the Friendless, st. Patrick's Orphan
asylum, the Pennsylvania Oral school,
t and the West Side hospital. In all of
them except the last named there
1 We're no deaths, no sickness, and no
I births during the month. There was
? one death at the West Side hospital
2 and child was born on May II. that
a was christened Dewey Harris, after
t the hero of Manila. There We're no
reports from the Moses Taylor or
Lackawanna hospitals and the secre-
tary will notify those in charge OF
, these institutions to send in monthly
= reports.
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